TRAVIS SVIHOVEC and BLAKE NICHOLSON
Bismarck Tribune
Leaders of a Bismarck church last Sunday morning took the first steps in organizing a communitywide prayer effort aimed at ending the stateâs drought, which continues to worsen.
The timing of that message may have helped their cause.
âIt was very powerful as we first told folks here at McCabe that, it was raining outside,â said Karl Kroger, lead pastor at McCabe United Methodist Church.
Some members of the church after discussing the drought on social media approached the churchâs leadership about praying for rain and inviting other congregations to do the same. Kroger and Associate Pastor Jenny Hallenbeck Orr liked the idea, and this week through personal invitations and emails they re asking other churches to join.