Our Altar guild (Altar Preparation Team) and Elders (Spiritual Care Team) worked together over the summer months to select and purchase new altar furnishings.
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On June 20, 2021, Redeemer Lutheran Church installed four Stephen Ministers – Tina Clark, Angela King, Kris Mills, and Rick Shaver along with Stephen Minister leader J.K. Lilly.
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1. What's your name?
Mike Sisson
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
I grew up in St. Albans and will always consider it home, regardless of where I reside. I am married to Amy and we have 3 grown boys, all with two children each. We have a sweet but yappy little dog name Shadow, because wherever you are, she is right behind you.I am a former police officer in St. Albans, former Union Carbide (Dow) employee and former Process Deputy for the Kanawha County Sheriffs Dept. I am currently an elected Magistrate in Kanawha County nearing the end of my second 4yr term.
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Sunday, January 5, 2020 several of our Redeemer youth worked together with the men of Redeemer to cook and serve up a pancake brunch for the entire congregation. Pancakes, sausage and bacon was offered right after Divine Service.
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1. What's your name?
Don King
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
I was born in Columbus Ohio and adopted at birth by my mother and father Donald and Juanita King. I was raised in Nitro, WV but left in 1985 to find work. I was a civilian employee for the Department of Defense and was stationed at the NATO Land Forces South East Headquarters in Izmir, Turkey ended up in the Pacific North West and retired from the Federal Way Police Department in 2006. Married to Angie and we have one dog, Maggie.
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J. K. Lilly
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
West Virginia has always been home except for my Navy years. I'm dad to three daughters, but one died from complications of diabetes. Patricia Sherman found me wandering Charleston's mean streets barefoot and shivering; she couldn't resist adopt me as a bedraggled stray. Imagine, a Presbyterian sharing wedding cake with a Catholic. Thank God for providing a welcoming Lutheran church in which to worship Him. Her Doctorate is in Education and mine is in Medicine... both from WVU. Our Masters degrees are from Marshall so are united in Christ but divided by diplomas.
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1. What's your name?
Phil Gaarenstroom
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
Grew up in Fairmont, Minnesota; graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota and went to graduate school at Purdue University (Ph. D. in Chemistry). Moved to Charleston in 1977 to work for Union Carbide. Nancy and I met at Purdue and we married in 1978. I retired from Dow Chemical in 2013. Nancy works part time from home doing bookkeeping. Our daughter, Amanda, is a paramedic in Morgantown. Our son, Eric, is a construction inspector in Columbia, Maryland. Onyx, our black cat, keeps us entertained at home.
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1. What's your name?
Steve Winans
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
Originally from upstate New York. Came to South Charleston in 1963 after graduating from Clarkson as a Chemical Engineer. Retired and spend time gardening and traveling. Wife is Janet (41 years and counting) with 3 boys and 10 grandchildren.
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Fred Joseph
2. Will you please share a little about yourself?
Born in Whitesville, West Virginia in 1938 lived in Charleston West Virginia for all of my life .
After high school I attended one short year at West Virginia University. After that one year I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served two years on active duty .
Harold Reed turned 99 years old on September 4, 2019.
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