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Month: September 2017
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Whose race are you running?
As you were growing up, were you compared to someone else or did you feel like you were expected to be like someone else? At some point in the first 30 years of your life, did you look up to someone that you wanted to be like? When you were in middle or high school did you like something (music, clothing, an activity) because someone else did?
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Game Plan
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A different perspective
A few Sundays ago I took my daughter, Brooke, to her Kidventure class. Brooke’s teacher was Alexandria Stroh. One of the joys of being a pastor at the same church for 17 years is that I have known Alexandria since she was a toddler. She is now a sophomore at the University of North Dakota majoring in communications, yet she still volunteers at Prairie Heights. So I asked her to write an article telling me about her day and why she volunteers. Here is Alexandria’s perspective:
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We can all do something for someone
This past summer, Prairie Heights partnered with Midwest Radio to offer free service for the vehicles of single parents including oil changes and car washes. While the parents enjoyed coffee, breakfast and conversation their kids had a blast playing in the Prairie Heights’ Kidventure Playlands. Eighty volunteers invested their time and skill in encouraging the lives and spirits of these families with a total of 65 cars serviced and 442 total hours volunteered.
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My Story
On Sunday, April 30, 2000, my wife, Teri, and I excitedly gathered with every launch team member of Prairie Heights Community Church, all eleven of us, for an all-day planning session. Teri and I had quit our jobs and moved from Minneapolis to Fargo-Moorhead one month earlier. Our goal was to gather forty launch team members and start the new church in April of 2001. It was a longshot at best but we knew God was in it.
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