96 people out of about 175 in attendance gave their lives to Christ that day. Carol asked Larry, “What are you going to do about it? God just opened a door for you.” Larry said, “I started praying about it and, sure enough, cowboys need to hear about Jesus, too. We started a ministry called ‘The Cowboy Way.’ I’d go to rodeos and conduct church services if I was asked.” After a few years of his traveling rodeo ministry, Larry decided it was time to conduct services at home. When his 86-year-old parents died in 2006, he put his small inheritance to work. “They didn’t have much, but they had a little bit of money left. I wasn’t going to take the money that came from my parents and do something stupid with it, like buy a car. I wanted to do something I could look back at and say ‘That was because of my mom and dad.’” He used the inheritance as seed money, re-financed the mortgage on the acreage, and borrowed enough money to build a barn in which to hold services. It just so happened that their friend Jack Garr of Texas was a contractor. Jack came to South Dakota and helped them put up the basic structure and then gave Larry and his family lessons in how to put the steel on the roof and the steel on the sides and how to put in windows – so they could finish the building’s construction. Another friend, Terry Buttemeier, helped gather the materials and do design and construction work on the interior which has an Old West feel to it. Fossum’s started doing services on Wednesday evenings and, for a time, did regular country-style services at the Hartford
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