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Guest
Speakers scheduled:
Pastor Jaynan Clark President of Word Alone Network
Jaynan Clark has served
as President of the WordAlone Network since fall 2001. She was an early participant in the WordAlone movement and a delegate
to the 1999 ELCA churchwide assembly at which she spoke out in opposition to Called to Common Mission, the full communion
agreement with The Episcopal Church. She was elected to the Board of Directors
at the March 2000 Constituting Convention of WordAlone and served for six years on the board. She also served on the synod
council (Eastern Washington/Idaho Synod) and is a member of the advisory council of Lutheran Community Services.
Jaynan was born and raised on a farm in
southeastern Minnesota. She attended school in Lyle, Minnesota. Growing up, Jaynan loved the outdoors, enjoyed farm work,
building grain bins, and entered the “office” world as the bookkeeper/receptionist for her Dentist in Austin,
MN, a job she kept while attending the local community college for two years. A transfer to Arizona State University
in Tempe, Arizona took her into the world of business with a double major in Marketing and Advertising. As a Field Sales Engineer
for Texas Instruments, Inc., Jaynan sold the insides of computers to a world that did not yet have home computers. In 1981, she entered Luther Northwestern
Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
God graciously called her to the upper N.W. corner
of North Dakota for an incredible internship year at First Lutheran Church in Williston. During that year she had an opportunity
to preach in rural churches without pastors and to direct programming at the Upper Missouri Bible Camp in Epping.
After receiving her M.Div. degree in 1985,
Jaynan’s first call was as a missionary in Tanzania, East Africa, among the Maasai tribe. She returned to
the United States in 1991 and has served Immanuel Lutheran Church, Cresco, Iowa, Trinity Lutheran Church, Bonners Ferry, Idaho
and Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Spokane, Washington. During the mid-90’s Jaynan enjoyed on-leave from called
status in Hawaii as she cared for her 4 young children full-time. Jaynan’s pride and joy are her four children, three boys and one girl. She loves to volunteer in the kid’s
schools on a weekly basis and be the “treat mom.” The family enjoys their home out in the woods (Nine Mile Falls
area) where they engage in many outdoor activities such as snowboarding, wakeboarding and hiking, claiming they would rather
wear out then rust out.
Pastor Larry Lindstrom Chairman of the LCMC Board of Trustees Pastor Larry Lindstrom is originally from Lubbock, Texas. He received his college degree from Texas Lutheran
College in 1980 and the Master of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary in 1984. He has served St. Andrew Lutheran Church in
Farmersville, Ohio for 25 years. Larry's wife Elaine is a manager of a branch library in the Dayton system, and their daughter
Charlotte is a junior in high school. Larry
is a charter member of LCMC at its formation in 2001. He has been serving on the LCMC Board of Trustees since 2002 and has
been chairman of the Board since 2007.
Pastor Edward P. Skutshek President of the Canadian Association
of Lutheran Congregations (CALC) Pastor
Skutshek has served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church since June 1st, 2000. He was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, in 1956.
He is a lifelong Lutheran. He graduated with a BA from Simon Frazer University, Burnaby BC in 1979 with a major
in Psychology. He graduated from Western State University College of Law in San Diego, California,
USA in 1983. He practiced law in California for some 13 years. Ed met and married his wife Denise (nee Hughes) in 1984.
Their one and only son Jonathan was born in 1987. Denise is a Speech Pathologist/Therapist. Beginning in 1993, Pastor Ed experienced
a call to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. By the fall of 1996, his family moved from San Diego to Saskatoon Saskatchewan,
so that Ed could attend Lutheran Theological Seminary. He earned a Master’s of Divinity Degree and graduated from
Seminary with academic distinction in May of 2000. He is the past president of Solid Ground Ministry/Canada 2006-2008. An organization which unites laity and clergy
in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) for the purpose of opposing the liberal drift in the theology and practice
of the ELCIC. In December of 2008, Grace Lutheran church severed its ties with the ELCIC and joined LCMC and the Canadian
Association of Lutheran Congregations (CALC). Pastor Ed was elected president of CALC in November 2009. His wife
Denise continues to practice speech therapy. She directs Grace Lutheran's traditional choir known as the Grace
Choir, sings in Grace's Praise Choir and is part of a quartet made up of women from our congregation known as “SOLACE”
Their son Jonathan is currently completing his studies at the School of Pharmacy at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver.
Rev. Dr. Erwin Brese Author of "When Story Becomes Life" The Rev. Dr. Erwin A, Brese, retired Lutheran pastor (ordained 1961), LCMS, former parish pastor,
emeritus professor of Pastoral Care, author, Married 50 years, two children and two grandsons. Presently a Pastoral Counselor.
part-time staff at the Samaritan Pastoral Counseling Center of WNY.
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