Pastor Weiser comes from a family of 13. 6 brothers and 6 sisters. His wife Kathy, and he have been married for 42 years as of July 3rd,2023. The LORD has blessed them with three wonderful grown sons; Chris, Brian and Adam. We have two daughters-in-law: Jenny and Renee. 3 grandsons; Griffin, Nolan and Canyon, a stepson; Sydney, and a granddaughter; Gracie. Pastor is a second career Pastor, before feeling the call to ministry as a parish Pastor and volunteer Chaplain He spent 22 years as a Chemist in the Environmental Field and as a Blood Services Quarantine Technician and product distribution technician. His institutional Module at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis was in Prison Ministry. His first call in 2007 included being a volunteer Chaplain at Big Muddy Correctional Center which he continued to do until 2019. In 2009 he was asked to volunteer at Centralia Correctional Center performing those duties until 2013 when he accepted another call in Anna, IL. Pastor Weiser performed volunteer duties at Choate Mental Health Center in the Forensics and the Psych side, USP Marion, Pulaski County Jail and Detention Center which involves Immigrations and Customs detainees. He also filled in at Shawnee and Vienna Correctional Center. In December of 2019 Pastor received a called to serve as the pastor for Immanuel Lutheran Church and school which he was installed as, February 23, 2020. Then 2 weeks later COVID hit and we were ordered to close down the church and school, but instead we did a work around and held service in vehicles with a loud speaker and the school continued with wearing mask and monitoring for COVID, All prison ministry was shut down completely and only full time Chaplains were able to minister to the inmates. I served at Immanuel Rosebud until my retirement on November 1st. 2023. My plans upon retirement were to begin my ministry as a Professional life coach and certified mental Health Coach specializing in Coaching adults that deal with specifically Youth Mental Health. All these courses Pastor Weiser has completed as of December 31,2023. Pastor has been trained in Clinical Pastoral Education, is a Stephen Minister, and is a Certified youth and adult Mental Health trainer, in addition Pastor is endorsed in Specialized Pastoral Ministry with LCMS. Pastor has completed many continuing education classes with Light University and Ambassadors of Reconciliation.
Pastor has completed courses as a Congregational Care Connector with Southern Illinois Healthcare and he was given the privilege by the nurses to take a continuing education course on Faith Community Nursing, serving as their Chaplain and teaching some of the modules.
As God sometimes does He changes our plans to do His will. God led me to serve as your vacancy Pastor for a time. I look forward to getting to know all of you and I thank you for giving me the privilege and responsibility of serving in this capacity, as always God brings certain people in to our lives, for a certain time, and I am so thankful that He has seen fit that we get to spend this time together in ministry.
As I always say, Any questions? Any Answers? If you need to know the answers to any questions it can always be found in the Word. Written with Christian Love from Pastor Weiser and Kathy.