A former professional football player has planted a church in Minnesota, hoping to establish an evangelical witness to a population increasing thanks to new economic opportunities.
NorthLight Community Church, a new congregation planted by retired NFL player Kurt Ploeger, held its first public worship service on Sunday at a primary school in Byron, a small but growing town outside of Rochester.
In an interview with The Christian Post on Monday, the former defensive end explained that the roots of NorthLight go back to August 2016, when he met with a pair of pastors looking to plant a new congregation in the Rochester area.
“They had a vision for not just planting a church, but planting churches that would plant other churches, and a process of multiplication,”…
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