Outfitters for Adventure

History

Morris Community Church

home of
Outfitters for Adventure

church services:

Sunday mornings
10:00 a.m.

Morris High School Auditorium
201 South Columbia Ave
Morris, Minnesota

Morris Community Church was started by Neil and Ruth Thielke in 1982 with the help of Jim McCracken from City Hill Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. After Morris Community Church was well established, Outfitters for Adventure began, helping new churches get started and strengthened. Pat and Angela Franey returned to assume the pastoral leadership of the Morris church after starting a church in Starbuck, Minnesota. At that time, Jim McCracken passed the reins of oversight of the Outfitters churches to Neil. Neil Thielke reduced his pastoral work in Morris Community Church to half time so he could devote more time to the leadership of Outfitters for Adventure. Morris Community Church grew by a third during the leadership transition from Neil Thielke to Pat Franey as head pastor.

Outfitters for Adventure provides oversight for churches in Minnesota and North Dakota, and encourages churches in other parts of the world. Harvest Community Church in Fargo, North Dakota, was pastored by Nathan Rooney and his wife Andrea and was started by thirteen young people who had attended the Outfitters for Adventure Summer Institute of Ministry Training. In fall of 2008, Neil Thielke began pastoring Harvest Community Church as the Rooneys turned over the good work they had begun to explore other fields of service.

In 2004 David George, while serving as an elder of the Fargo church, along with his wife Jenn, began River of Hope Church in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Over the years Neil Thielke has led teams from Outfitters for Adventure to encourage and assist churches in Mexico, Mongolia, Kenya, and other parts of the world.

Outfitters for Adventure

History

home of Outfitters for Adventure

church services:

Sunday mornings 10:00 a.m.

Morris High School Auditorium 201 South Columbia Ave Morris, Minnesota

home of
Outfitters for Adventure

Sunday mornings
10:00 a.m.

Morris High School Auditorium
201 South Columbia Ave
Morris, Minnesota