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Innovations in rural ministry

Innovation is in bloom across the rural reaches of the ELCA, and perhaps nothing exemplifies that better than a new food ministry in Iowa. The Western Iowa Synod calls it the Pig Project, and it’s gotten nearly 2 tons of ground pork into food pantries around the synod.

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