Oh Man! Travis Gerjets Baking Bread and Building Community

Oh Man! Travis Gerjets Baking Bread and Building Community

By Nicole Thom-Arens When Travis Gerjets moved to Minot in 2014, he wanted to carry on the ideas of community he and his wife, Brandy, were a part of in Europe. He didn’t know then that a sentimental feeling toward bread would be his way toward that community. “I’d...
Styling Hair, Covered in Prayer

Styling Hair, Covered in Prayer

By Paula Redmann Photo Credit: Jill Ackerman, Director, Mission Advancement, Annunciation Monastery You could say styling hair is in Tina Bakke’s roots. Born into a large, hard-working and faith driven family in Dickinson, North Dakota, Tina was the fifth of the 11...
An Appreciation For the Basics

An Appreciation For the Basics

 By Carole Hemingway I didn’t grow up in a consumer-driven society filled with technology, fancy restaurants, or fancy cars. I was shaped by a place not more than 152 miles from where I live now in Pennsylvania, a small dot on the map called Bear Creek. The...
Look What She Did: Libby Bakken

Look What She Did: Libby Bakken

Libby Bakken spent 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry selling medications to physicians and healthcare providers so they could treat their patients’ lifestyle diseases. Now she works with patients, instead, hoping to help them avoid disease, the hospital, and...