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 Jeanette Engelhart serves as our choir director. She
has lived in Las Vegas since 2006, teaching and directing choir first at Spring
Valley High School, leading the Madrigals and other fine choirs. When the choral
program was eliminated due to the severe budget cut-backs, she moved to an
elementary school, where she is well qualified to teach Orph instruments as well
as other forms of musical expression.
Pastor Kurt Sortland was called in 2000 to serve our congregation with our founding pastor, Thomas Unmacht, until his retirement in 2004. Pastor Kurt deeply appreciates the hospitality, the heart for service, and the rich diversity of The Lakes. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, majored in mathematics at St. Olaf College (BA), Northfield, MN, and studied to be a pastor at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. He served parishes in Limon, CO, Blair, NE, Wichita, KS, before coming to Las Vegas. His first position in the valley was with Christ Lutheran. He met his wife Karla at the bowling alley in the basement of the student center at St. Olaf when both were 16; they were married after graduation. She became a teacher of English and put him through seminary. They adopted Phil and Mary when they lived in Nebraska. Phil is living in Kansas City, MO, and Mary and her daughter, Ronnie Marie, are living here in Las Vegas. |
Carol
Johnson is our organist and volunteer accompanist for the choir and other
music ministries of our congregation. She began serving when we were still
holding services at the Oasis Childcare Center, before our building was built.
Carol teaches piano at home and has many students. She and her husband have
helped with Vacation Bible School and many other ministries of the church for
many years.
Dick
Johnson is our custodian and building maintenance technician. At times he is
also our set designer and builder and anything else we need accomplished. Dick
is also our Saturday night usher. He has a fulltime job elsewhere, but he
sometimes puts in enough time to be fulltime here.