Below is a video clip from a Lutheran youth gathering in Willmar on Friday night, with ELCA Southwest Minnesota Bishop Jon Anderson speaking. Anderson was raised on a Belgrade-area dairy farm and graduated from Belgrade high school in the 1970s. (The exact year fails me at this time)
Here's music by Bridge 33, the feature music group at the gathering:
It's been an interesting (good) night in Willmar! Trinity Lutheran church of Brooten along with the Big Grove/Crow River/Grace Lutheran parish have sent 24 junior high kids to the synod youth gathering. The keynote speaker later in the evening gave an outstanding and amazing speech (with a one-person skit) about bullying. I have much, much more to write about it.