...the Lutheran ministry. "This is a first," the Rev. Arlen Hermodson said after the Saturday night service in Sharon Lutheran Church in Grand Forks. Hermodson is bishop of the Northwest Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America...

...Parents are Harold and Dawn Bjorgo, Crookston, and Nettie and Dave Sellinger, Brainerd, and Steve and Elizabeth Shockman, Lake McQueeney, Texas. An Oct. 9 wedding is planned at Sharon Lutheran Church in Grand Forks, N.D. Photos

...Lutheran Church will have a free contemporary concert at 7 p.m. Saturday. Higher Ground, a musical group from Sharon Lutheran Church in Grand Forks, N.D., will perform a variety of Christian music, including contemporary, gospel and traditional...