News about Calls

Updated 6.26.09

In Interim

Pueblo de Fe, St. Paul, mission developer

Call Committee Active

St. Stephen, West St. Paul, associate pastor
Trinity, North Branch, senior pastor

Calls Issued

Abiding Savior, Mounds View, senior pastor
Lutheran Church of Peace, Maplewood, senior pastor
King of Kings, Woodbury, associate pastor

Calls Accepted

Brent Erler, Lakeview, Maplewood, senior pastor

Ordinations, Consecrations, and Commissioning

With Sympathy

Fedora (Dori) Engelhardt, former Saint Paul Area Synod staff member, of Minneapolis, died May 4, at the age of 61.
Dori is survived by her sister, Esther (Richard) Wonderlich of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; niece, Kimberly (Tony) Burton; nephew, Scott (Melenie) Wonderlich; great nieces, Aundria and Natalie Burton and Madeline Wonderlich; great nephews, Tyler Burton and Alton Wonderlich; aunt Gladys Wepler, as well as several cousins.

The Rev. Paul M. Krause, age 94, died on June 6. Krause was the founding pastor of Gethsemane Lutheran Church and School, Maplewood. Preceded in death by first wife Frida, son Eugene, and a grandson. Beloved husband of LaVaun, father of Ida Unser, Jeanne Resemius and Jeanette Habisch. There are ten grandchildren and several great and great great grandchildren. Also survived by one brother and his wife and three sisters-in-law.

Roy Henderson, 69, director of music at Bethlehem Lutheran, member of the Saint Paul Area Synod Council., died June 21.