Mission Convocation Recognitions
Ordination Anniversaries
20 Years
The Rev. Gemechis Desta Buba
The Rev. Cathy A. Fanslau
The Rev. Evelyn Johnson
The Rev. Bjoern Meinhardt
Rev. Paula L. Murray
The Rev. Lisa L. Peterson
The Rev. Christinia A. Seibel
The Rev. Ernest B. Sheldon
The Rev. Eric Waters
25 Years
The Rev. Daniel David Baker
The Rev. Jeffrey T. Cottingham
The Rev. Dwight John Hanson
The Rev. Roger G. Keller
The Rev. Charles H. Lashley
The Rev. Jeffrey J. Lee
The Rev. Timothy Lundeen
The Rev. Jean Rabary
The Rev. Shelly D. Schultz
The Rev. Hilbert A. Schultz
The Rev. Christopher B. Staley
The Rev. Paul M. Strom
The Rev. Mark E. Wilhelm
30 Years
The Rev. Franz Joseph Bradenburg
The Rev. Daniel W. Cave
The Rev. Alex A. Chartier
The Rev. John T. Conrad
The Rev. Sara Ann Gausmann
The Rev. Steven J. Hartten
The Rev. William C. Heber Jr.
The Rev. Daniel Hendrickson
The Rev. Thomas J. Hux
The Rev. Mark A. Kindem
The Rev. Eric C. Meissner
The Rev. Kevin Ree
The Rev. Norman J. Sulaica Jr.
35 Years
The Rev. Scott W. Baker
The Rev. Scott F. Berner
The Rev. Randall A. Cauble
The Rev. Jarrod Lanning
The Rev. Rodney W. Lilley
The Rev. Jeffrey David Messner
The Rev. John Moffett
The Rev. K. Craig Moorman
The Rev. Bryan R. Salminen
The Rev. Lewis Samuel Scheiderer
The Rev. Daniel W. Selbo
The Rev. Raymond E. Short
The Rev. H. Brian Triller
40 Years
The Rev. Mark H. Braaten
The Rev. Donald M. Brandt
The Rev. Thomas M. Brodbeck
The Rev. Kenneth A. Comstock
The Rev. Henry Andrew Corcoran
The Rev. Matthew Cox
The Rev. Keith H. Eslinger
The Rev. Preston Bennett Foster
The Rev. Peter V. Gundersen
The Rev. Daniel Hansen
The Rev. Roy A. Harrisville III
The Rev. William Hecht
The Rev. Gregory B. Held
The Rev. Gerald Norman Kaskela
The Rev. John W. Krueger
The Rev. John M. Kulczycki
The Rev. Simon Wing-Shing Lee
The Rev. Philip Lee
The Rev. Kurt Erik Luebkeman
The Rev. Pentti J. Maki
The Rev. Don L. Neumann
The Rev. Robert H. Quaintance
The Rev. John Saethre
The Rev. Jonathan D. Sorum
The Rev. Sandra S. Soye
The Rev. David M. Wendel
The Rev. Samuel Zumwalt Jr.
45 Years
The Rev. Gabriel Baxter Baumgardner
The Rev. Bruce E. Foster
The Rev. Michael Gabby
The Rev. Douglas C. Gast
The Rev. N. Amanda Grimmer
The Rev. John W. Harmon
The Rev. Justin P. Kollmeyer
The Rev. James R. Palan
The Rev. Ann Miller Smith
The Rev. Michael G. Tavella
50 Years
The Rev. John Bauer
The Rev. Robert Groenke, Jr.
The Rev. Philip Gronbach
The Rev. Kenneth Hauge
The Rev. George Mathews Jr.
The Rev. Thomas McCrone
The Rev. James Neal
The Rev. James Nestingen
The Rev. Kenneth Schott II
The Rev. Wayne Strohschein
The Rev. Alan Williams
55 Years
The Rev. Norman Albertson
The Rev. James DeLong
The Rev. Ray Rosenthal
The Rev. Bruce Welander
60 Years
The Rev. Harvey Blume
The Rev. Ronald Schmidt
70 Years
The Rev. Thurmond Plexico
Military Chaplains and Personnel and Their Families
The Rev. Jesse J. Abbott
The Rev. Craig K. Abee
The Rev. Paul A. Chapman
The Rev. Paul Lynn
The Rev. Steven J. Nicolai
The Rev. Adam J. Roe
The Rev. Wesley K. Teixeira-Alves
The Rev. Steven J. Wadle
The Rev. Frezil Westerlund
Chaplains Serving in Other Contexts
The Rev. Daniel A. Bellinger
The Rev. Patricia Clark Braunscheidel
The Rev. Pirjo Carlisle
The Rev. Gregory E. Davidson
The Rev. Paul D. Hansen
The Rev. Karen M. Jersild
The Rev. Victor F. Kolch
The Rev. John W. Krueger
The Rev. Constance M. Morrow
The Rev. Titus J. Ngebeh
The Rev. Angel L. Scott
The Rev. Richard Joseph Stoecker
The Rev. Jacob Michael Taxis
The Rev. Christopher D. Thorson
The Rev. Sarah E. Woodward
Introduction of Seminarians
Julius Badigo
Justin Baker
Laura Simone Bhasin
Benjamin Blobaum
Byron Burger
Cody Carpenter
Michael Davis
Aaron Dawson
Kansa Deresa
Lynnae Douglas
Jonathan Gowin
Alliyah Greaver
Hailey Halmstad
Heather Hanson
Joseph Hill
Maureen (Molly) King
Benjamin Lander
Yvette Moy
Colin Neill
Michelle Oddsen
Teresa Peters
John Popiak
Pal Pusztai
John Renick
Ricky Richards
Philip Sandi
Carlos Santiago Flores
George Schrader
Megan Shaffer
Ramiel Shamwel
Edsel (Dale) Stanley
Robert Syner
Alicia Wolfe
Introduction of Newly Ordained Pastors
The Rev. Taylor Stempniak, serving at Immanuel in Fresno, CA;
The Rev. Yuwei Bai, serving at North Immanuel in Pelican Rapids, MN;
The Rev. John King Jr., serving at Grace in Enterprise, OR;
The Rev. Eric Steward, serving at Mt. Zion in Lucas, OH;
The Rev. John Crawford, serving at Faith in Faith, NC;
The Rev. Ke Zhu, serving at Chinese Lutheran Church of Honolulu, in Honolulu, HI;
The Rev. Jay Lutz, serving at Trinity in Ponoka, AB Canada;
The Rev. Adam Poe, serving at St. John’s Hopewell, in Celina, OH and Zion in Chattanooga, OH;
The Rev. Darcy Albers, serving at St. Albert Evangelical in St. Alberta, AB Canada; and
The Rev. Parker Kantos, serving at Brighton Heights in Pittsburgh, PA.
Congregational Anniversaries
100 Years
1921 First English Lutheran Church, Marysville, OH
1921 First English Ev Lutheran Church, Baker City, OR
1921 Immanuel Lutheran Church, Whitewood, SD
125 Years
1896 Glen Flora Lutheran Church, Glen Flora, WI
1896 St Peter Lutheran Church, Doss, TX
1896 St Paul Lutheran Church, Runge, TX
150 Years
1871 Christina Lake Lutheran Church, Evansville, MN
1871 Christiana Lutheran Church, Salisbury, NC
1871 St John’s Ev Lutheran Church, Cullom, IL
1871 St Paul’s Ev Lutheran Church, Millersburg, PA
175 Years
1846 Holy Ghost Lutheran Church, Fredericksburg, TX
250 Years
1771 St Paul Lutheran Church, Seven Valleys, PA
Remembrance of Pastors Who Have Died Since the Last Convocation:
9/10/2020 – Catherine I H Braasch – 17 years of ordained ministry
9/11/2020 – Steven G Gilbertson – 35 years of ordained ministry
9/18/2020 – Paul G Senff – 62 years of ordained ministry
9/27/2020 – Kurt W Borows, Jr. – 56 years of ordained ministry
9/28/2020 – Patrick N Kelly – 53 years of ordained ministry
10/17/2020 – Paull E Spring – 55 years of ordained ministry
12/15/2020 – James L Friesner, Jr. – 20 years of ordained ministry
03/08/2021 – Robert K Herndon – 49 years of ordained ministry