Description
Explore a new transitional ministry initiative called "Ecclesia" that seeks to discern a congregation's call to mission in its own distinct context of the Minnesota Iron Range. Work with "mission building teams" in the construction of a new church building for Messiah Lutheran Church, which lost its eighty-one-year-old facility to fire on July 14, 1998. Learn the skill of taking oral history and community interviewing as a method of shaping future mission and ministry in a very culturally diverse rural-industrial and mining region. Live with local families and take short informative trips to key sites on the east Iron Range. Registration and a $50 non-refundable deposit are required.