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Photos: Tailgating Worship Service

Calvary and Spring Lake Lutheran Churches held a Tailgating Worship Service and Potluck on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023.

By Glen Stubbe

January 1, 2023 at 9:31PM
With the church covered in purple, green, and yellow balloons, Pastor Vicki VanderVegt led parishioners in Skol Vikings at the end of the service.
Lillian Vanderberg, 4, drilled three straight nerf footballs through a hole to win a prize.
Pastor Vicki VanderVegt, left, smiled as she tried on Corrine Meyer's Viking colored wig.
Oliver Perales, 7, winced just a little as he received a heart-shaped purple football face paint on his cheek.
Jana Engdahl rocked her granddaughter Kinsley Karas, 4, during a singing portion of the service.
Pastor Vicki VanderVegt inflated a purple Vikings balloon toward the end of the service.
Parishoners launched purple, green and yellow balloons toward the end of the service as musical director Steve Berggren sang.
Parishoners launched purple, green and yellow balloons toward the end of the service as musical director Steve Berggren sang.
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With the church covered in purple, green, and yellow balloons, Pastor Vicki VanderVegt led parishioners in Skol Vikings at the end of the service. (Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Photojournalist Glen Stubbe has been chief political photographer for the Minnesota Star Tribune since 2011 and was business photographer and photo editor before that. He was named Visual MN Photographer of the Year twice in a row, first in 2015, and then combined 2016-2017.

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