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UNDERWOOD, Minn. — In rural Otter Tail County, volunteers are planning for a weekend of history by the roadside.
For more than a century, an old church in lakes country has stood the test of time. But after years of sitting empty, it was close to demolition — that is until people with family ties stepped up to breathe new life into the Swedish treasure.
Down a curvy county lake road near Underwood, you spot it. The church Swedish immigrants built in1904. It's changed names over the years. Swedish Free Mission Church, Scandinavian Free Church of God. And now the Evangelical Free Church of Tordenskjold.
"It still works and sounds pretty good," Janet Bolstad, a volunteer, said. Her family ties date back to the original 1904 members.
People stopped worshiping here in the 1950s. And because
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