From time to time, Janice White’s children will call her from their far-flung homes – in Florida and California and Idaho – and ask for a recipe.
Janice White and her mom, Nancy Tjentland, tend to dishes in the kitchen of Amo Lutheran Church in rural Minnesota. The church's centennial cookbook is a favorite in their family.
Amo Lutheran Church is located in Cottonwood County, Minn., about four miles south of Storden.
A major project in 2012 repainted the church interior. Member Janice White found herself high up on the scaffolding, hand painting the golden letters above the altar that read: The Lord Is My Shepherd.
A stained glass window at Amo Lutheran was dedicated to Ole and Lena Bondhus, a relative of Carolyn Bondhus’s husband. The windows were installed in 1951. "Did you know there were a real Ole and Lena?" church members said, referring to the Norwegian jokes.
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The "Hears and Roses" quilt was made by women of Amo Lutheran for the 2005 Shetek Bible Camp auction and purchased by an Amo Lutheran member. The church was known for its excellent quilters. They no longer quilt as a church group, but the Bible camp continues its annual quilt auction. The 40th annual even is in June.
A mural in the Sunday school room at Amo Lutheran was painted by children in the church.
Raised in small town South Dakota, Janelle is enjoying her time as editor of Tri-State Neighbor and Midwest Messenger while raising kids, chickens and no till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.
Janelle Atyeo
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