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Minot Christian Women’s Club celebrates 50 years at Aug. 14 luncheon

Minot Christian Women’s club will host a special nondenominational luncheon from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Minot’s Grand Hotel. The event will honor the club’s 50-year history as well as its guiding leadership program, Stonecroft Ministries, which is celebrating 80 years. The event will feature special keynote speaker Cheryl Davis, Stonecroft Ministries’ Vice President of Women’s Connections. Price is $13/person and includes a stuffed pork chop lunch. Reservations are strongly recommended. Contact Darcy at 837-8233 or minotchristianwomens@hotmail.com.

Groundbreaking ceremony at Metigoshe Ministries Sunday

LAKE METIGOSHE – A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Sunday at 10 a.m. for an approximately $3.5 million addition to Metigoshe Ministries’ Lakeside Christian Center. Metigoshe Ministries is located at 165 Lake Loop Road E., in the southeast corner of Lake Metigoshe near Bottineau. Bruce Carlson, Velva, is Metigoshe Ministries board president and Pastor Jon Halvorson is executive director. For more information about the event call 263-4788.

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The subtle deception we all face

My greatest fears and life wounds are: the fear of rejection, abandonment, loneliness and failure. Growing up I felt “poor” so my entire life the spirit of money has whispered in my ear that money would protect me from my fears; money would insulate me from the pain of rejection, abandonment and loneliness, and as long as I had money I would never feel like a failure. Is that true? Of course not! Money makes promises it is unable to deliver with the goal of ruling our lives. This is exactly why Jesus said we cannot serve God and money. There have been times in my life, through the ...

Dad’s penchant for poetry kept me attuned

My father, if alive, would have been 83 today. It’s been five and a half years since his death, but sometimes he still feels so near.
Dad’s influence drew me to local poet Timothy Murphy. Though they never met, each time I visited Tim, Dad’s ghost seemed within reach. It was Dad, after all, who first taught me to attune my ear to the rhythms of the written word, especially through poetry. Though not prolific like Tim, Dad might have been if he’d pursued his talent wholeheartedly. My sister and I once uncovered volumes of poems he’d written, including romantic ones to my ...

Study: US religious orders overwhelmingly back women deacons

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A new survey has found that the majority of U.S. Catholic religious orders believe women should be allowed to serve as ordained deacons, lending support to an issue currently under study at the Vatican amid pressure for women to be given greater roles in the church. Seventy-seven percent of both male and female superiors in the U.S. believe such ordination is theoretically possible, and 72 percent think the church should go ahead and authorize it, according to the study released Thursday by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University ...