Obtaining Oil and Gas from shale has created boomtowns in North Dakota. But there isn’t enough housing for the newcomers. A Lutheran church is one of the few to minister to the men who work the oil fields.
The heavy leather work boots are stained with oil and the reddish dust that churns through the air in the small but growing town. The population has tripled in less than 10 years. New drilling technology has revived the state's oil industry. About 20 new oil-patch workers arrive in the 20,000-person town every day, by Mayor Ward Koeser's estimate. Each worker faces the same challenge within 24 hours of arriving in this prairie town: finding a bed in a boomtown bursting at the seams that offers nothing even resembling a homeless shelter.
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