The Crookston High School held the Common Ground event tonight with 103 7-12-grade students coming from six different churches across Crookston. The participating churches were Harvest Church, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Presbyterian, Our Saviors Lutheran Church, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
The event held socializing events for the students to meet students in other churches and schools in the High School Commons to get to know each other and discuss various things. The students were then led into the gym where they broke into eight teams and played a variety of games active and social group games where they had to work in partners or as team to earn points to win a prize at the end. The event then went back into CHS Commons where they sang three songs played by a small band composed of multiple students from each of the churches. The event than held a short worship service by Harvest Church Youth Director, Reilly Stroot about how they came up with the event and what the idea of “Common Ground” meant. The event ended with the students getting to socialize with each other again with a table of snacks and refreshments.
The event also partnered with Alluma’s Homeless Service Resource Coordinator, Sheril Schluchter, where the students were asked to bring in donations for their Homeless Care Kit. With items such as socks, gloves, backpacks, toothbrushes and toothpaste, bandages, and single-serve snacks like Trail Mix, dried fruit, and crackers.
The six Youth Leaders were very excited with the success and plan to hold the event again in a larger scale in the future.
