A Celebration of Ministry

This THU 5/16 will bring to the end a career in Christian education for my wife Lois. After graduating from Concordia River Forest in 1977, she taught at Grace English Lutheran School in Chicago. After we moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1980, she taught off-and-on at Trinity Lutheran School until we moved to Hawaii in 1993. She taught at Our Savior Lutheran School in Aiea from 1993-1997. Since 1997, she has taught at Christ Lutheran School in Norfolk, NE.

If you're keeping track, that's 38+ years in Christian education, including 22 years at Christ Lutheran. 

She is truly the Christian educator in our home. Her love for her students is obvious. Her commitment to her ministry is always evident. Many days she worked at school until 5:00 p.m. She brought home paperwork & worked at it for another hour or two. Her Sunday routine has included several hours at school after church, preparing for the week ahead.

She has served as a leader in the primary grades at CLS, & most recently served on the Steering Committee for Re-Accreditation. She's also serving on a Call Committee to help select the first grade teacher who will follow her.

She has been a role model for not only her students but her peers, as well.

I'm not sure what to title this post. Her modesty would seem to preclude a title like "A Tribute to Lois" or "The End of an Era," although either title, in my opinion, is appropriate.

I'll settle for "A Celebration of Ministry," because the schools where she's served have been faithfully & excellently serve by one who has been blessed to be a blessing to her students, their parents, & her fellow faculty & staff. It's proper to celebrate the Lord who has so richly blessed these schools & her ministry.

I'm proud of her service. No doubt she will be missed. I give thanks to the Lord for enabling Lois to be such a blessing, & I pray that the Lord would continue to bless her richly as she considers her plans for retirement.