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Missouri Valley Community Church where digital believers gather

By: Doreen Gosmire and David Stucke, communications, Dakotas Conference UMC

Missouri Valley Community Church is more than worship. It is a community of believers who are engaged in supporting each other and growing in their love for Jesus. It all happens digitally. The pandemic pushed all churches to online platforms for worship and ministry.  When three congregations at Center, Hazen, and Washburn, North Dakota, started meeting in-person again, many people still watched the online service. COVID-19 revealed to the the congregations in northwest North Dakota that a group of people were not interested in showing up in the church building for worship but desired to continue to gather digitally. Now named the Missouri Valley Community Church, each week, a base of over 100 people join in worship online and interact in discussion groups using Facebook as the central platform.

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