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For assistance arranging for a speaker,
contact Karen Hart at 719-275-8418 or
tkhart2@msn.com
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The Reverend Gene Thiemann
Clergy member, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, spent nine years as a missionary
in the Philippines; worked for The Lutheran Hour; and also for Lutheran World
Relief as program director for Asia and the Middle East. With LWR, Gene
handled new and on-going programs in places such as India, Bangladesh, Thailand,
Gaza and the West Bank. He still supports LWR on a consulting basis from
his home in Fort Collins. Gene works with Lutheran Disaster Response in
Colorado. He prefers opportunities to preach, and a supply preaching
honorarium is appropriate. 970-282-7763, 5643 Hummel Ln, Fort Collins, CO
80525,
gthiemann@comcast.net
and
Anna Belle Thiemann
A native of Waverly, Iowa, Anna Belle has traveled extensively with her husband
in his many assignments for LWR. She also served with Lutheran World
Relief for 7 years as coordinator for Parish Projects such as providing quilts.
970-282-7763, 5643 Hummel Ln, Fort Collins, CO 80525.
The Reverend Bob Miller and Doris Miller
A retired bishop from the Pacifica Synod in California, Bob and his wife
traveled to Kenya and Uganda with an LWR tour and came back excited about
sharing the insights they gained. As a result of several talks they have
given near their home in northern Colorado, churches have embarked on the LWR
coffee project. 970-493-5611, 1231 Mt. Simon Dr, Livermore, CO 80536,
d.g.miller@juno.com
Julie (Luttinen) Miller
Youth director at Holy Love Lutheran Church in Aurora, CO, for 4 years.
Traveled with an LWR study tour to Kenya and Uganda and extended her stay for a
week to stay with an indigenous family who has connections to her congregation.
She came home with new insight into hunger issues and has organized awareness
workshops and retreats for youth and youth directors in the Rocky Mountain
Synod; and she created a video documenting LWR projects featuring people who
touched her life while in Africa entitled "A Bridge to Africa". Julie
traveled December 2003 to the Holy Land with a tour led by Chuck Lutz
(coincidentally her second cousin) and gained a new insight into the plight of
the Palestinian Christians caught in the middle of that on-going conflict.
Then in May 2004 she led an intergenerational group to Tanzania, and later in
2004 to Mexico. She provides a fresh view to third world issues.
303-726-5510; Holy Love Lutheran Church, 303-693-1162;
julielu@holylovelutheran.com
Brad Wood
Community Relations Director of Metro CareRING, a food pantry serving 30,000
people annually. Brad has stories of local hunger issues and likes to talk
about them in terms of advocacy. 303-860-7200,
bwood@metrocarering.org
The Reverend Bonita Bock
Founder and former director of the precedent-setting social ministry
organization known in Denver as the Urban Servant Corps, she and her husband,
Nelson, are now teaching classes at the west campus of Wartburg Seminary in
Denver. Bonita has extensive experience working in the inner city as well
as with issues of poverty and hunger throughout such agencies as LWR, the ELCA
World Hunger Appeal and the ELCA Church in Society board. 303-860-1467,
2437 S Downing, Denver, CO 80205,
bonita.bock@wartburg.edu .
The Reverend Barb Martens
Director, Urban Servant Corps, Denver; she and her volunteers work at Metro
CareRING and other locations dealing with hungry people and have first-hand
stories and experiences they are willing to speak about. 303-894-0076,
720-849-4179, pastorbarb@earthlink.net
or www.servantcorps.org
Terri McMaster
Heads up the Rocky Mountain Synod's Colorado Lutheran Office of Governmental
Ministry and is experienced in issues of justice and advocacy. 303-777-6700, RMS
office; tmcmaster@rmselca.org .
and
Ruth Hoffman
Heads up the Rocky Mountain Synod's New Mexico Lutheran Office of Governmental
Ministry and is experienced in issues of justice and advocacy. 505-984-8005,
1701 Arroyo Chamiso, Santa Fe, NM 87505,
rh@logmnm.org .
Madelyn Busse
Assistant to the Bishop of the Rocky Mountain Synod, Madelyn facilitates the
work of the RMS Church in Society Board which supports the RMS Hunger Network;
she has visited Honduras as part of a delegation representing the Lutheran
Church and accompanied an RMS delegation to Madagascar in 2000.
303-77-6700, Rocky Mountain Synod office;
mbusse@rmselca.org
Karen Hart
As current coordinator of the Rocky Mountain Synod Hunger Network, Karen's
passion for hunger awareness and advocacy has intensified as she travels around
the world and visits many continents and countries, including China, VietNam,
India, Malaysia, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil and Cuba, and twice to Guatemala
with her church. Both times the trip was long and difficult and the
resulting communication hasled to prayers for food and safety.
719-275-8418, 1005 Ridgeview Pl, Canon City, CO 81212,
tkhart2@msn.com .
Dawn and Sam Matthews
Sam is an engineer and Dawn is a nurse and administrator; both have experience
working with LWR projects in foreign development. Currently, they both
work for EMI, a Christian ministry to provide engineering talents for projects
such as orphanages, water, schools, hospitals, etc., throughout the world.
719-632-3991, 15 N 32nd St #1, Colorado Springs, CO 80904.
The Reverend Erwin Spruth
Erwin Spruth was a missionary in Ghana and Papua, New Guinea. He now lives and
work in Colorado Springs where Pastor Spruth is an interim pastor. He has
observed the ravages of hunger and know the lifeline LWR and the ELCA World
Hunger Appeal provide for starving people. Erwin is a member of RMS Hunger
Network. 719-572-9308
elspruth@aol.com .
Carolyn Bartel
The wife of a pastor, a member of Bethany-Cherry Hills Village where she serves
on the Global Mission Task Force, Carolyn has traveled to Tanzania on an LWR
study visit. 303-841-9822, 12341 N. Spring Creek Rd, Parker, CO 80138.
and
Arlis Adolf, M.D.
A medical doctor and member of Bethany and its Global Mission Task Force also,
she and Carolyn traveled together to Tanzania where they met women who are
helping their families and villages through LWR projects. They tell great
stories of small coffee farmers who are benefiting from our support of the LWR
and Equal Exchange coffee projects. 303-759-3947, 1420 S Jersey Wy, Denver, CO
80224.
The Reverend Phil Erlander
Pastor Erlander retired in 2004 from Prince of Peace, Colorado Springs.
Phil began our synod's social ministry program, including the Hunger Network.
He has traveled extensively in Mexico and Latin America, and has visited Israel
and the West Bank. 719-591-2159, 1607 Vasquez Cir, Colorado Springs, CO
80915
Raising World
Hunger Awareness and Funds
Celebrate LWR and ELCA World Hunger efforts annually
on a special day with a speaker during worship and also during adult education
hour. For possible speakers, contact the Rocky Mountain Synod Hunger Network.
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