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Minnesota Teen Challenge Choir to perform in Linwood on Sunday, Feb. 17
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Thursday, 14 February 2008
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Sunnyside Free Lutheran Church in Linwood will host the Minnesota Teen
Challenge Choir in a free performance on Sunday, Feb. 17 during the 10
a.m. worship service.
The choir’s contemporary Gospel and Praise songs will be accompanied by
inspiring student stories of their deliverance from addiction by the
power and forgiveness of God.
Additionally, the students will be available following the service to
answer questions about their personal experiences and how their lives
have been changed through Minnesota Teen Challenge.
The event is open to the public and all are welcome. The choir is known
statewide, having performed at over 250 churches in 2006.
MnTC is a faith-based residential chemical dependency program for teens
and adults with chronic alcohol, drug and other life-controlling
problems.
Their mission is to provide rehabilitation for adults and teens whose
problems are so serious, they can no longer function in social, family
and work settings, and to help them become mentally sound, emotionally
balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive.
Minnesota Teen Challenge is one of the largest of more than 150 Teen
Challenge centers in the United States and 250 centers world-wide. Teen
Challenge began in 1958 when Rev. David Wilkerson set out for New York
to minister to teenage gang members.
It was the conversion of notorious gang leader Nicky Cruz that laid the
foundation for the beginnings of Teen Challenge ministries. Cruz’s
conversion is chronicled in the best-selling novel The Cross and the
Switchblade.
For additional information, contact Sunnyside Free Lutheran Church at (651) 462-4163.
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