In the summer of 2022, Jenny Groen, Arrive Ministries Willmar Area Coordinator was invited to journey to the Southern border of the United States and Mexico with a group of women through Women of Welcome an affiliate of World Relief. Abara Frontiers led this educational and immersive trip.
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Opening of Willmar Arrive Ministries Site We are very excited to share with you the opening of Willmar Arrive Ministries. With an official site in Willmar, we hope to expand the ways we can be a blessing to our neighbors, create opportunities for cross-cultural friendships, and carry
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After a two-year stint teaching English to students in Jordan through the Peace Corps, Marlene and Dan Hovland realized that teaching ESL was in their bones. Later when they moved to Willmar, their church was recruiting tutors to teach English to Somali adults. Marlene thought it would
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A needle and thread might be just the tools needed to stitch hearts together in Willmar, MN. Melissa Scheele founded the Rey’a Community Arts sewing program in 2017, and since then she has watched great friendships form through the 8-week sewing class. This one-on-one teaching program held
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