Everyone attending the 22nd session of the Dakotas Annual Conference gathered in the Great Hall of the Holiday Inn in Fargo, North Dakota, on Thursday evening to celebrate the missional outreach across the conference and globe.

Nets were made fashionable with the guidance of Char Ough and the district fashion design teams.  Each district superintendent gathered a team and were instructed by Ough to "design a costume that uses the materails in your box and displays the true spirit of Imagaine No Malaria campaign."

Photo: Char Ough recruits fashion design team members for each district with Rebeeca Trefz.  Photo by Amanda Willis.

Dakotas Conference missions were highlighted in video and "roving reporter" interviews.  Displays from Bakken Oil Rush Ministry, Out in Faith Ministry, Solar Oven Partners, Spirit Lake Ministry Center and Tree of Life circled the room for those in attendance at the fesitival to view. 

Several activities encouraged donations to Imagine No Malara: the opportunity to get your photo taken with a flat John Wesley or flat Bishop Ough, a "Beat Bishop Ough" hoop shoot, a change war challenge and of course voting for your favorite fashion model. 

Ashley Gish, Assistant Campaign Director for Imagaine No Malaria, Nashville, Tennesee attended.  "The Dakotas Conference sure knows how to have a good time for a good and important cause."