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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998
From: John Reinschmidt JREINSC@rivertrade.com
My name is John H. Reinschmidt. I am a 1997
graduate of Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN and will hopefully be up for
ordination this coming December (assuming I pass through the
approval process unscathed, pronounce the shibboleths correctly, etc.). I
was born in 1964 on June 9, a birthdate I share with actor Michael J. Fox,
composer Cole Porter, and jazz pianist Kenny Barron (it also happens to be
the death-day of Charles Dickens). I was raised in a LC-MS pastor's home
until 9th grade, when Dad took a call to start an ALC mission congregation
in Rochester, MN. I graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, in
1987 with a double major in philosophy and Ancient Greek. I did graduate
work at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Texas at Austin. I was married
August 26, 1995, to Dr. Jamie Lyn (Miller) Reinschmidt, who practices medicine
at North Suburban Family Practice, Roseville, MN. We honeymooned in
Montreal and la ville de Quebec (write me if you ever want tips on either
destination).
My interests include jazz, vinyl record collecting, computers, reading,
wildflowers, hiking on Lake Superior's North Shore, Luther's *theologia crucis*
and Douglas John Hall's *theologia crucis pro America borealis*.
Yours in Christ,
John H. Reinschmidt
Roseville, MN
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:27:29 -0500
From: Walter Riedel
Sorry for not doing this earlier--I had forgotten to whom I had
introduced myself. My given name is Walter Riedel, but my friends call me
Bob. You can tell friends from acquaintances by what they call me. I always
assume people are friends.
I grew up in Brooklyn NY and Connecticut, took college and seminary degrees
at Yale, did an STM in counseling at the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
seminary in St. Louis before it divided in its "unpleasantness" some years
ago. I served an LCMS parish in California, joined AELC and then ALC when my
congregation voted to join the ALC and I accepted the call to the mission
field. I am now a pastor in Florida since 1986, after serving a parish in
California and then 8 years in Papua New Guinea. In PNG I taught primarily
preaching and New Testament at the seminary level, but also advanced
counseling and senior seminar and served as academic dean and librarian. You
get to do quite a lot there! I enjoy teaching, so if sometimes I appear to
be pedantizing, this might be why, and being new-ish to this it is still hard
to know what level to speak at.
I am 51, married, three sons 9,11,16, of whom I am inordinately proud.
I am a stamp collector, so any of you who would like to make my day, snail
mail is also welcome. I read a good deal, enjoying fiction mostly and
science. I was pre-med until my last year of college and that still is an
avocation, though obviously not a vocation. I love to travel, enjoy
international contacts, can read a bit of French, though my vocabulary has
atrophied and my grammar atrocious. I could say the same only more so for
Greek and Hebrew. I am fluent in neo-Melanesian and a New Guinea vernacular
(one of 700) , but I bet few of you speak Kotte or Tok Pisin, so that won't
help.
I am a member of the Florida Bahamas Synod Council, serve on the Outreach
(mission development), Ecumenism, and Global Missions Committees of the
Synod, am active in ecumenical and inter-faith affairs locally, love kids,
great music and worship, and a good discussion. What else would you like to
know?
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 14:29:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Rightmyer
Thank you, John, for your efforts. I look forward to learning
from ELCA-L some of the concerns of my brothers and sisters in Christ on
this list. I'm an Episcopalian, though some of my Rightmyer family were
Lutherans in Reading, PA in the last century. Others were German Reformed.
My grandfather moved from Reading to Chester, PA, where he
married an Episcopal girl and began to go to St. Paul's. My father was a
priest of the Episcopal Church and an historian of the 18th century
American church, and I have followed in that path. I'm in my 30th year
of ministry in the Episcopal Church and after 23 years in small churches
in Joppa, MD, and Asheboro and Shelby, NC, moved to Durham to work on a
biographical directory of the Church of England clergy in British America
before 1785, including some information on the Swedish Lutheran clergy on
the Delaware.
I also work for the national Episcopal Church General
Board of Examining Chaplains. We prepare, administer, and evaluate a
General Ordination Examination taken early each January by seminary
seniors to help their bishops and Commissions on Ministry decide what
they need to work on in their early years of ordained ministry. I would
be interested in some discussion of the process toward ordination in the
Lutheran Churches.
For the past two years I have served part time as Chaplain at St.
Timothy's - Hale, an Episcopal School for grades 5 - 12 in Raleigh. This
fall I will begin a class in religion for 10th graders. Sundays I assist
as a volunteer at St. Philip's, the downtown church in Durham, and do
supply and Sunday interim work.
Thomas Rightmyer
trightmy@acpub.duke.edu
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