|
Homepage |
|
|
|
UPCOMING EVENTS |
|
|
|
Email Us! |
|
|
|
Meet Our Pastor |
|
|
|
Weekly Readings |
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||
|
|
|
| ||
Meet Our Pastor
I graduated from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, PA on May 15, 2005. I was married to a pastor who passed away on June 21, 2005 and have spent the past thirty years in the parish setting - rural and urban - in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. I have six grown children (four boys and two girls) living all over the world and six grandchildren (also four boys and two girls).
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where I attended elementary and high school. Hephatha Evangelical Lutheran Church was only one half block from my house and this congregation became my church home until after I was married. On February 3, 1951 my husband Ken and I exchanged our wedding vows at Hephatha.
Seven months after our wedding, Ken enlisted in the Air Force and after he completed basic training, I joined him in Wichita Falls, Texas where we lived for the next three years until his transfer to Amarillo, Texas. Two days after arriving in Amarillo, our oldest son Michael was born on March 21, 1954. After Ken's discharge, we returned to Milwaukee where we purchased a home and once again became involved in congregational life at Mount Carmel Lutheran Church.
Between 1957 and 1961 we were blessed with four more children, three boys and one girl and in 1963 we moved to a larger home in West Bend, Wisconsin. Our Savior Lutheran Church became our new church home. I became a Sunday School teacher, taught Vacation Bible School and sang in the choir. During our stay in West Bend our sixth child, a second daughter was born.
After three years, Ken's engineering work took us to Orlando, Florida and membership in Faith Lutheran Church of Pine Hills. We were only affiliated with this congregation for about nine months but we were both very active and it was at this time that Pastor Thorson was helpful and encouraging during Ken's time of discernment for ordained ministry. From Orlando (because of a big lay-off at Martin Co.) we moved on to Palm Bay, Florida where we became a part of the life at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.
Shortly after joining this congregation, a new pastor who had just graduated from Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbus, Ohio was called and he was influential in aiming Ken to attend that seminary. While we were in Palm Bay, the congregation needed an organist and being a mission congregation they were not able to afford or attract an accomplished organist. Since I was one of only two members who could read music, play the piano and was willing to give it a try, I became the "organist". In 1969 we left Florida for Columbus where Ken attended seminary and I began my organ studies, taking lessons at Capitol University.
My husband's first call was to Walcott, North Dakota and thus I was given the opportunity to attend Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota and graduated from there in 1977 with a Bachelor of Music degree, Magna Cum Laude, majoring in organ performance with a minor in religion.
Shortly after my graduation, my husband accepted a call to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carnegie, Pennsylvania and it was there that I was certified and commissioned as a lay professional on October 28, 1979 in the former ALC. In 1981 we both received calls to serve Crown of Glory Lutheran Church in Branchville, New Jersey and 1986 my husband accepted a call to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Essex, Maryland. I received a call to serve the same congregation as Minister of Music a few months later. We remained at St. John's until January of 1997 when my husband retired.
I am presently rostered as an Associate in Ministry and was serving as the Minister of Music at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Dundalk, Maryland and had been in this position since Fall of 1997 until May 31, 2003 when I left to begin my internship here at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. I was called to serve here as pastor on May 15, 2005.
I was ordained into the ministry at St. Peter Lutheran Church on June 12, 2005.
 |
| Site Tools |
|
|
|
|
|
Verse of the Day |
|
|
