In Anchorage early in October, the doors opened onto a soaring white canvas dome with room for a soccer field and a 400-meter track. Its prime-time hours are already rented well into 2011.<\/p>\n
Nearby is a cold-storage facility leased to Sysco, a giant food-distribution corporation, and beside it is a warehouse serving a local contractor and another food service company.<\/p>\n
The entrepreneur behind these businesses is the ChangePoint ministry, a 4,000-member nondenominational Christian congregation that helped develop and finance the sports dome. It has a partnership with Sysco\u2019s landlord and owns the warehouse.<\/p>\n
The church\u2019s leaders say they hope to draw people to faith by publicly demonstrating their commitment to meeting their community\u2019s economic needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to turn people on to Jesus Christ through this process,\u201d\u009d said Karl Clauson, who has led the church for more than eight years.<\/p>\n