To be good stewards with our time and talents, we will be donating a portion of our proceeds to someone in need. For our 2012 event we have chosen to help ND Teen Challenge. Teen Challenge was started in 1958 by Reverend Dave Wilkerson, and now has over 400 centers worldwide. Rev. Wilkerson began Teen Challenge as a way of reaching gang members in New York City in the 1950’s. As he began working with troubled youth, he found that the life-controlling issues of addiction in families set their children up for failure. As a young pastor, he set out to offer teens and families a way out of the cycle of despair by offering a program to bring them freedom from addictions and a new life of hope and promise. North Dakota Teen Challenge for Adults officially opened in June of 2004 in Williston, North Dakota, as an alcohol & drug residential recovery center for men. Within a year it became apparent that the need for this program was growing. In order to meet the increasing demand, NDTC relocated to Mandan, North Dakota, on September 1, 2005. In 2006 NDTC began accepting adult women into the program. Our program currently hosts about fifty adult residents.

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27.