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A sign for all nations

Mantels, ministry team install
over 700 crosses worldwide


Bill and Carol Mantel have taken up their cross — and left its footprint around the world.

For the past 17 years, the Cambridge couple and their Christian Cross Ministries team have installed hundreds of crosses, from the Mantel’s home state of Minnesota to the other side of the globe.

“It’s a joy to get another one up,” Carol said. “It’s like, ‘Wow, God, who would dream that, at our age, you’d ask us to put up crosses?’”

Today, there are over 700 CCM crosses worldwide, including in Africa, Asia, Israel, South America, Slovakia, the Philippines and, of course, the United States. They stand at homes, businesses, mountains and all kinds of locations.
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Growing pastured poultry

RedC Farms home toducks, chickens, turkeys

CALEDONIA — When Kim Klees and her husband, Terry Cushman, started raising backyard chickens for fresh eggs, they did not intend for it to flourish into a business of pasture-raised poultry while working full time jobs off the farm.

“We do it because we like to know where our food’s coming from, and we want to provide the same to the community,” Klees said. “I know the majority of our customers appreciate that they know their food is being raised to have a high nutritional profile.”

The couple raises the majority of their poults on the Cushman’s family farm near Caledonia, where they have 15-20 acres set aside for pastures. At RedC Farms they raise mainly ducks with

 
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