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Well, it must have been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, and Pastor Inqvist must have faced an empty sanctuary, because the license plates in the parking lot of Our Savior Lutheran Church, in McAllen, made it seem that most of Minnesota had moved to Texas for the winter. Lutherans are not indigenous to the Rio Grande Valley, and Our Savior has fewer than three hundred of them for most of the year. But that number swells to more than eight hundred from December through March, as migrants from Minnesota and other states in the upper Midwest head south to assume the status of winter Texans. And on the last Sunday in January, another six hundred or so emerged from their RVs and motor homes to attend the church's annual polka worship service.
The first event was held in 1995, and it is now so popular--it drew 1,457 people this year--that it was split into three services and held in the gymnasium in the church's Living Faith Center. Although my wife, Patricia, and I arrived at least fifteen minutes early for the...
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