With Long Prairie Packing taking the lead again we’re planning another free food distribution on Friday May 1st starting at 1 pm in the Baptist church parking lot in Long Prairie. As we did at our Good Friday distribution, Long Prairie Packing will provide each family with two pounds of ground beef. Minnesota Fresh, with the assistance of Ruby’s Pantry, will give twenty pounds of potatoes to each family. The Out Reach Program of Brainerd Lakes, with the assistance of Long Prairie Packing and Dreams United/Sueños Unidos, will provide 18 meals of dried prepared meals to each family. Our plan is to provide this all to 400 families. That’s the number we reached on Good Friday.
Review by John King “Marketplace Ministers are part of how the Lord will reach the peoples of the earth in these last days.” Author Paul Gazelka wrote this astonishing sentence near the conclusion of his 2003 book, Marketplace Ministers , but it is a good place to start here because it so neatly encapsulates the message of the book which is that business people, by spreading the Gospel, are in a unique position to prepare us, for the end of the world. Gazelka, an insurance salesman in Baxter, Minnesota, devotes chapters one through four to the story of his religious calling and how he came to adopt the “marketplace” as his personal ministry. He goes to some length, relying in part on the “Fivefold Path” from Ephesians to convince the reader that the marketplace is a legitimate pulpit to spread the Word. The remainder of the book, using personal anecdotes and biblical passages, he explains how a marketplace ministry would function and what its usefulness w...
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