Barbara Brunworth
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 :: 798 Views ::
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Dr. Barbara Brunworth is Director of Lutheran Counselor Services, Inc. which serves the Dallas area. She has practiced as a therapist for individuals, couples and families in the Dallas area for 28 years.
Dr. Mary Hilgendorf-Director of WLI
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 :: 1213 Views ::
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Dr. Mary Hilgendorf serves as the Director of the Women's Leadership Institute (WLI) and Professor of Education at Concordia University Wisconsin. Mary gives numerous presentations to Lutheran women's groups throughout the country to encourage and equip women for Christian leadership. Her presentations are lively, personal, thought-provoking, and motivational with a sound Biblical message and foundation.
Bonnie Treloar
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: 920 Views ::
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Bonnie Treloar earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master of Arts degree in Learning Disabilities from Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, WI. She then embarked upon a 31-year teaching career in special education in the Cedarburg, WI public schools with 27 of those years being at Webster Middle School. While there, she had the opportunity to initiate a new special education service delivery model and followed through on three phases of this leadership in the subsequent six years. In the last eight years of her tenure, she mentored first-year teachers and teachers new to the district and served on three district level committees and eight building level committees. In June, 2006, following her retirement, she became a DPI-certified PDP team member.
Her church home for the past twenty-seven years has been First Immanuel Lutheran in Cedarburg where she has enjoyed many volunteer activities such as Share-a-Meal, LWML Treasurer, Sunday School Teacher, Membership on the FIL Church Council, Chair of the Board of Christian Growth, and, most recently, as part of a team investigating a new governance at FIL. She has recently been commissioned as a Stephen Minister.
In May, 2007, she and her husband, Bill will celebrate their 30th anniversary. He is the owner of a small business, KAMP SYNERGY, INC. in Milwaukee which designs, manufactures, and installs integrated systems for water controls. Their son, Andrew, is attending Humboldt State University in Northern California surrounded by the ocean, stately redwoods, and rain forests. All three of them enjoy traveling, hiking, reading, jazz, and family.
Ruth N. Koch
Thursday, March 01, 2007 :: 718 Views ::
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Ruth Koch is a mental health educator and National Certified Counselor. Trained in both social work and counseling, she specializes in conflict management, grief education, and everyday mental health issues that impact personal and family relations.
Lois Giordano
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 :: 529 Views ::
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Lois Giordano is a retired teacher finding new arenas for service with her involvement as Associate Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute. She’s had a wide variety of leadership roles in her congregation, LWML, and District and has especially gravitated to projects involving event planning and devotional writing.
Terry Kieschnick
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 :: 547 Views ::
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Terry was born in Austin, Texas and married Gerald Kieschnick (Jerry) January 29, 1966. Their family includes a son, Andrew; a daughter, Angie; her husband (their son‑in‑love), Todd; and two grandchildren, Kolby, 11, and Kayla, 10
Rev. Daniel Paavola
Monday, February 26, 2007 :: 449 Views ::
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I grew up in west-central Minnesota on a dairy farm near New York Mills, Minnesota. I earned my bachelor’s degree in English with two minors, history and coaching, from Moorhead State University in 1979. Though my original intention was to teach...