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North Hill Baptist is now Journey

North Hill Baptist Church is now operating under the name Journey, said Pastor Daniel Andrus. The church meets in Suite 301 in the Mount Vernon Building at 900 North Broadway. Coffee is served at 10 a.m. Sundays, followed by the worship service at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays. The church also holds a Bible study at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings. Andrus said the church has been averaging about 20 members when everyone shows up. After it sold its church building on 21st Avenue, the congregation was looking for a new start. It has been renting the suite at Mount Vernon, which seems to fit ...

Can suffering build spiritual strength?

They love fresh fish! At least that’s how the story goes. Fishing off the coast of Japan has become more and more difficult because the waters are over-fished. Fishermen can find fish farther out to sea but it takes longer to get the fish to market so they no longer taste fresh. In an attempt to bring in better fish, the fishermen tried freezing them immediately after catching them. However, consumers didn’t like the flavor of frozen fish. Fishermen tried bringing them back to shore alive in tanks full of water but the crowded tanks inhibited their movement which affected their ...

Father Vetter to be named Bishop of the Diocese of Helena, Mont.

Father Austin Vetter has been appointed by Pope Francis as the Bishop of the Diocese of Helena, the Catholic diocese for western Montana, according to a press release from the Bismarck Catholic Diocese Father Vetter was formerly the priest at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Minot. Prior to that, he served as parochial vicar at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. He was a religion instructor at St. Mary’s Central High School in Bismarck from 1994-99. He then served as pastor of St. Martin’s in Center and St. Patrick’s in Dickinson before he served at St. Leo’s in Minot. Father ...

Catholic Foundation changes name

The Catholic Foundation for the People of the Diocese of Bismarck, which for over the past six years has served the Catholic people and entities with its charitable giving, has a new name: Catholic Foundation of Western North Dakota, according to a press release from the diocese. Foundation Executive Director Matthew Stevenson announced the new Foundation name on Thursday, emphasizing the Catholic Foundation of Western North Dakota will not only continue the mission and service, but to serve its goal as the premier foundation for the faithful in this region. “We are excited to ...

Our Lady of Grace, Minot, to host Sept. 8 Family Day and MJM7 concert

Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Minot, will host a Family Day and MJM7 concert at the church on Sunday, Sept. 8. Family Day begins at 4 p.m. with a taco-in-a-bag meal, games, face painting, and entertainment including learning sign language to parts of the Mass, singing Sonshine Camp songs, a student dance performance, and music by 17-year-old singer/songwriter Chloe Marie (chloemariemusic.com). At 5:45 p.m. the doors will open for the main event – the 6 p.m. MJM7 concert. MJM7, a Catholic family band, performed at World Youth Day in Panama. The Michael and Michelle Mette family ...

You will never know unless you go

In April of 2000 I resigned from my engineering job in Minneapolis. Our family loved living in the Twin Cities. We were near family for the first time in our married life, had a great church home, good friends and good jobs. We were comfortable. But in 1993, we accepted a mission God placed on our heart: to help one more person find hope and life in Jesus Christ based on 1 Corinthians 9:23. So, we were moving to Fargo-Moorhead to start a new church for people who don’t like going to church. Our company’s office housed 60 employees, so the news spread quickly that “Jon was ...