WELS/ILS Call Updates
Premise
The national church body (WELS) that Trinity and ILS are affiliated with helps churches and schools find qualified pastors and teachers through a call process. When you read that someone has a call, they essentially have received an offer from another ministry to come and serve at their church or school. The person usually takes several weeks to prayerfully consider this opportunity and then decide whether to stay or go.
Active Calls
None at this time.
Call Decisions
At our last call meeting, the voters called Pastor Craig Wilke to serve here at Trinity. Pastor Wilke has decided to return (decline) our call. We will work on obtaining a new list of candidates soon and vote on the next pastor to call at our semi-annual voters’ meeting later in June.
Mr. Joe Panning will be joining ILS this summer as the new choir and band director. Mr. Panning is a recent graduate of Martin Luther College and may be a familiar face as he spent the Fall semester at ILS completing his student teaching experience under Mr. Witte. Please pray for Mr. Panning and his wife, Lydia, as they move to Illinois this summer to join the Charger family.
The Board of Directors extended a call to Miss Rachel Ihlenfeldt to serve as our first grade teacher and she has accepted the call. Miss Ihlenfeldt will be getting married this July and will become Mrs. Lanera. We look forward to welcoming her to Illinois Lutheran this summer!
Mrs. Laura Cook has accepted a call she received to teach 3rd grade at Bloomington Lutheran Elementary School in MN.
The ILS Board of Directors extended a call to Mr. Caleb Dobberstein to serve as the Junior High and High School Choir, Band and Music Director. Mr. Dobberstein has returned (declined) this call.
Mrs. Pam Brudos has returned (declined) her call to Holy Trinity Lutheran School in Wyoming, MI.
Mr. Zach Seeger, Elementary School Principal, has returned (declined) his call to serve as principal at Redeemer Lutheran School in Tucson, Arizona.
Mr. Jonathan Witte, Junior High and High School Music Director, has received and accepted a call to serve as band director at Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton, Wisconsin. Please keep Mr. Witte and his family in your prayers as they prepare to transition to Wisconsin after the school year ends.
Pastor Cook has accepted his call to serve as the Student Ministries Pastor at North Cross Lutheran Church in Lakeville, MN. You can read his formal announcement here.
We called Pastor Jordan Uhlhorn to serve as Trinity’s Associate Pastor. He has accepted this call! We look forward to welcoming Pastor Uhlhorn and his family to Trinity this summer.
Miss Chloe Robbert, our science and junior high art teacher, received a call to serve as 5th and 6th grade homeroom teacher and 5th - 8th grade science instructor at Morrison Zion Lutheran Elementary School in Greenleaf, WI. She has returned (declined) this call and will remain here.
Mrs. Megan Deenik, our 2nd grade teacher, received a call to serve as 1st-2nd grade teacher at New Hope Lutheran Academy in West Melbourne, Florida. She has returned (declined) this call.