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Five youth and Pastor Lindsay boarded a bus along with First Lutheran in Blooming Prairie bound for New Orleans and the ELCA National Youth Gathering! We are headed for a week of practicing discipleship, justice, and peacemaking. We will keep you posted through the week here at this web address. Keep us and our travels [...]

The Red Oak Grove Strawberry festival was featured on a blog dedicated to churches and the meals they cook - Church Cuisine of Minnesota.  Check out what the author had to say about ROG's annual festival!  [It's all good!]

Yesterday, Red Oak Grove was all a flutter of activity, strawberries, and welcoming.  This church community has been hosting this annual festival for 71 years - what a tradition! As the new pastor, this was my first experience of this annual festival and it was wonderful.  The community of Red Oak Grove came together to [...]

It's Strawberry Fest week at Red Oak Grove!  Celery is chopped, potato salad prepared, and the tables are set.  Join us for a meal on Tuesday, June 12th from 4-7pm!  Hope to see you there!

The confirmation students at Red Oak Grove were given the task of changing the signboards at the church.  On one side, they chose a verse from a psalm to display.  On the other side, we had run out of S's.  Here is what they came up with - If God could text, God would say, [...]

Here a few stories in photos of what has been happening at Red Oak Grove lately!

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The average person is awake for about 112 hours a week.  The average church-going person spends two of those hours at church.  Ninety-eight percent of our waking hours are spent in the activities of everyday life: drinking coffee, going to school, driving in the car, working and volunteering, cooking and eating with family and walking [...]

Starting yesterday and continuing on Sundays through March, a Bible study is being held during the fellowship hour following worship.  We are using David Lose's Making Sense of Scripture and the key question we pondered yesterday was what is the Bible? Do you think it's a silly question?  One that we don't dare ask in [...]

Wondering why we put ashes on our foreheads?  Curious why Lent is 40 days long?  In two brief minutes, your questions can be answered!  On this Ash Wednesday, check out the video below about what this day and the season of Lent are all about.