Ardys Dahl is one of the farmers who donate their time, machinery and fuel for Trinity Growers. In addition to all the farmers, several agricultural busi- nesses in town donate everything—from seed to elevator space—to grow a yearly crop. This year, that crop is soybeans.
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n Cooperstown, N.D, they’re growing more than dis- ciples at Trinity Lutheran Church. Tey’re growing soy- beans and wheat. Tree years ago, Mike Jacobson, pastor of Trinity,
received a phone call from the Food Resource Bank say- ing it had someone who wanted to donate 90 acres for farming to generate funds for a mission project. “I said, ‘Yup, we’ll do it. We have plenty of farmers and
we’ll get it done,’ ” Jacobson recalled. “It’s amazing to see how this has happened and come to fruition. It blows me away. It has brought people back to the church who were on the fringes.” When Jacobson was interviewed by Trinity’s call com-
mittee in 2010, Todd Edland, then congregation presi- dent, mentioned a desire to raise funds for mission and ministry through farming. When Jacobson received the phone call from the
Christian food organization in February 2012, the offer fit with what Edland had said. Bryan and Laurie Nelson, members of a nondenominational church in Grand Forks, some 85 miles to the northeast, wanted to donate their land for farming. All they wanted in return was for
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