Pastor Gerald Kapanka - September 5, 2010

            Secretary 2008- Present 

 Pastor Ronald Flentgen - September 12, 2010

Pastor Flentgen was born and raised in the St. Louis, MO area.  He attended St. Paul's College in Concordia, MO and graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, IL (now in Ft. Wayne, IN) in 1964.  He spent his vicarage year at Bethany Lutheran Church, Parma, OH where he also met his wife, Ruth Ann Klemp, one of three daughters of his vicarage supervisor, Rev. Oscar Klemp.  Their marriage has been blessed with three children, Anne, of Hagerstown, MD; Jonathan, of Des Moines, IA; and Mary, of Overland Park, KS.  Pastor Flentgen served for 25 years in Iowa District West, at Bethel, Lawton; St. Paul's, Oakland; Immanuel, Estherville; and at Calvary from 1980 through 1989.  While in Iowa District West he was also Circuit Counselor in the Council Bluffs, Spencer and Sioux City Circuits, district pastoral counselor for the LWML, and a district vice president.  In 1986, while at Calvary, he was presented with the “Servus Ecclesiae Christi” (“Servant of the Church of Christ”) award from Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, IN for “Effective Ministry Among God's People In Today's World.”

He accepted the call to Redeemer Lutheran Church of Olathe, KS (Kansas City metro) in 1989 where he served until retirement from full-time ministry in June of 2002.  While in Olathe he was also elected as Circuit Counselor  and to the Board of Directors of the Kansas District.  During his retirement years he was employed by the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society for five years as Director of Spiritual Ministries at their long-term care facility in Olathe.  He is currently serving as Associate Pastor for Congregational Care  at Trinity Lutheran Church of Mission and Shawnee, KS (one church, two locations). 

Pastor David Schoop - September 19, 2010

David Schoop was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.  He was baptzed also in 1942 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Hammond, Indiana.  He attended St. Paul Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hammond, Indiana.  After high school he attended Concordia Teacher's College in River Forest, Illinois, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education.  During his college experience he interned for one year and taught fourth grade at St. Paul Lutheran School in Glen Burnie, Maryland.  Upon graduation he accepted a call to teach at Trinity Lutheran School in Lockport, New York.  During his ministry in Lockport he taught grades five and six, was principal of the school, and after its closing, was Director of Christian Education at Trinity.

In 1974 he accepted a call to become Director of Christian Education at First English Lutheran Church in Spencer, Iowa.  He served Spencer for three and one half years.  In May 1978 he enrolled at Concordia Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, under Synod's colloquy program.  Upon completion of the academic requirements, he was awarded the Master of Arts in Religion Degree and was placed at St. John Lutheran Church in LaPorte, Indiana, as a vicar.  In May 1980 he accepted the call to be Assistant Pastor at St. John's.  In 1985 he accepted the call to be St. John's Associate Pastor and upon the retirement of St. John's Senior Pastor, became Administrative Pastor.  He served in this position until March of 2001 when he accepted the call to be Senior Pastor at Calvary Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa.  He remained pastor in Sioux City until his retirement in November 2008. 

On July 8, 1972, Pastor and Annelie (Dern) were married in Lockport, New York.  On April 14, 1974, their son Kevin was born.  Kevin was killed in an automobile accident on July 4, 1997.

Pastor Klemz - September 26, 2010

I served at Calvary from April 1969 until August of 1974. 
    Our two youngest children were born in Sioux City:  Geniece and Amy.  Ann began schooling in Sioux City, Kathy and Ted went through grade school and entered Jr. High. Ann, Geniece and Amy are married.  We have four grandchildren, Nathanael (12), Joshua (6), Ann's boys; Helena (6), James (3), Geniece's children.  We moved to Plainview, Mn.; and then in 1976 to Buffalo, Mn., where I served St. John's as head pastor until retirement in 1999.  Since that time we have remained active at St. John's and the community.  I have served as visitation pastor, confirmation mentor, and hold regular services at care centers in Buffalo.  I am volunteer chaplain for Guardian Angels' Hospice Care in Buffalo.  Helen and I volunteer at the local hospital.  By God's grace in Jesus we do all we can to maintain Ephesians 2:10 as a theme verse for life, (Jerusalem Bible translation):  "We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning He had meant us to live it."

                                                             Roger E. Klemz