Candidate Application Detail Listing

Layperson

willing to be placed on the ballot for the Office/Board(s) for which I have been recommended

Board of Parish Education 2016-Present
Parish Librarian - 2017 - Present
Altar Guild 2016-Present
Board of Youth 2000-2005
Board of Stewardship 2000-2005
Women’s Ministry Co-Chair 2002-2005

Nominated to the Nomination Committee in 2020
(Subsequently elected and currently serving)

Founding Steering Committee member for Elizabeth House, under the District’s Life Task Force, which wisely chose to merge efforts with RLOM (Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries) to become the pilot for their first expansion location.

2023 Synodical Convention Voting Delegate

I have participated in fundraising activities for various organizations.

“This is how one should regard us, as servant of Christ and of the Mysteries of God.” (1 Cor. 4:1)
Of the Church: “its marks: the pure teaching of the Gospel and the Sacraments.” (Ap VII:20)

Both the NID and the Synod seek to have thriving congregations anchored around the Word and Sacraments.

I wholly affirm this mission, as it is faithful to Scripture and our Confessions. 
 
Our Confessions provide us with something unique: With the Cross always before us, we have the medicine needed for a dying world.
 
“…For such a time as this…”
I remember being asked to consider allowing myself to be nominated to serve; for which I now ask to be re-elected: 
With confidence in the Resurrection, I yet remained blissfully ignorant of what would come in the following years. A worldwide illness had not yet struck and our world had not yet struggled with earthly solutions. My husband had not yet gotten sick, and the Lord had not yet brought him Home, making me a widow in my early 40’s.

I recall reading Dying to Live, by Dr. Harold Senkbeil for the first time in my very early 20’s.
“But we know it won’t last. Ultimately, all of life is lived graveside. We are all dying—from the youngest newborn to the oldest nursing-home resident. We might be dying to live, but we are all dying.”
“There’s no way around death. You can either die alone in this world or you can die in Jesus. You can have life your way or you can have it His way. Your way leads through life to death. His way leads through death into life”
“Want to know the secret to effective Christian vocation? It’s well summed up in Luther’s 16th century insight into the first-century Scriptures: the Christian always lives outside of himself—in Christ by faith and in the neighbor by love.”
 
Our greatest challenge: Lukewarm Apathy.

We’re called to love dying world. Tomorrow is not promised. We live in a dying world unaware it is dying, unaware it needs a solution, unaware that our congregations have THE Solution.