BAKER, Minn. — When the Baker Downer Presbyterian Church stopped hosting its annual fish fry in 2019, it wasn’t for lack of attendees.

The church, in the unincorporated community of Baker, 16 miles southeast of Moorhead, was seeing a decline in church members. Fewer members made it harder to host the dinner that could feed hundreds. So after the fish fry in 2019, the church turned off the fryers for good.

But this year, the fryers will be hot again as the congregation brings back the dinner with the help of some friends. The Baker Downer Presbyterian Church, today a location of the First Presbyterian Church in Fargo, is teaming up with the St. James United Church of Christ in nearby Barnesville to hold the dinner from 4-7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24.

One of the dinner’s organizers, Glen Dee

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