{"id":8419,"date":"2003-12-03T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:27:58","slug":"3381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2003\/12\/03\/3381\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting Expo Connects Church with Its Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POPLAR, WI (December 3, 2003)\u00a0 &#8211; POPLAR, WI (December 3) \u2013 The seventh annual Hunters Expo, sponsored by\u00a0 Mission Covenant Church, drew more than 500 people, providing an\u00a0 opportunity not only for instruction, but good fellowship as well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>The November 19 free event came just three days before the State of\u00a0 Wisconsin&#8217;s opening of gun deer season. Seminars on various aspects of\u00a0 hunting were highlighted and parishioners supplied the fixings for a\u00a0 potluck meal.<\/p>\n<div>Mission Covenant pastor Darrell Nelson, an avid bowhunter organized the\u00a0 event after his congregation moved into a larger building in 1996. The\u00a0 goal was to help promote safe, ethical hunting in the area, as well as\u00a0 provide a connecting point for congregants and other members of the\u00a0 community. The Expo, which drew more than 250 people in its first year,\u00a0 has averaged 550 in recent years. Nelson considers the informal\u00a0 conversations with people not involved in the church as a bonus,\u00a0 recognizing that the goodwill generated in the community is helpful,\u00a0 too. For many residents, the fact that the church does something so\u00a0 practical communicates in a way that a sermon cannot do. Other churches\u00a0 have picked up on the idea.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;There&#8217;s a Wesleyan church about 60 miles down the road that does this\u00a0 now,&#8221; Nelson observed. &#8220;A few of their guys came to our show and got\u00a0 excited, and about a half dozen other shows in northern Wisconsin and\u00a0 northern Minnesota have gotten into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>According to one local news account, the big attraction of this year&#8217;s\u00a0 event was the 70 trophy deer mounts and huge racks that lined the walls\u00a0 and stretched down the Sunday school wing. All of the racks and mounts\u00a0 were on a one-night loan from hunters in the area. Each rack was labeled\u00a0 with the hunter&#8217;s name and the year he or she shot the buck. Local\u00a0 television stations documented the event in their newscasts.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;There was one other church in Sparta, Wisconsin, who called it a\u00a0 Hunters Rendezvous,&#8221; said Nelson in describing how his church got\u00a0 started with the Expo. &#8220;They brought in speakers for a seminar, but they\u00a0 don&#8217;t bring in the buck mounts like we do. One of the men of the church\u00a0 said he wanted to have a game feed and I said, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t we have a\u00a0 hunting show?&#8217; Our community donates various items and that&#8217;s what keeps\u00a0 the costs down &#8211; we have a $400 budget for this &#8211; we give recognition to\u00a0 local businesses and everyone in the church brings food.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The biggest advertisement is the buck mounts,&#8221; Nelson continued.\u00a0 &#8220;People are fascinated by them. And in a small town like ours, this is\u00a0 tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>Mission Covenant is located on the south shore of Lake Superior, 25\u00a0 miles east of Duluth, Minnesota. The congregation of 450 is located in a\u00a0 county that has 29,000 people. Nelson is in his 16th year as pastor of\u00a0 the church.<\/p>\n<div>For more information about the Expo, call Nelson at 715-364-2738.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=8419&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPLAR, WI (December 3, 2003)\u00a0 &#8211; POPLAR, WI (December 3) \u2013 The seventh annual Hunters Expo, sponsored by\u00a0 Mission Covenant Church, drew more than 500 people, providing an\u00a0 opportunity not only for instruction, but good fellowship as well. 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