Pastor
Rhonda Pruitt will provide the New Testament reading at the 31st annual
Arlington Heights Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, February 1, 2018, from
7:00-9:00 AM at the Doubletree Hotel, 75 Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights
(just west of Arlington Heights Road).
The
event also features a breakfast buffet, scripture readings, music by Irish Tenor
Paddy Homan, and a keynote address by Kari (Tanana) Olson, a mother with an
inspiring story about going completely deaf and how her faith and the community
helped her as she eventually regained her hearing with cochlear implants.
Pastor
Rhonda Pruitt was recently installed as Associate Pastor at Our Saviour's Lutheran
Church in Arlington Heights after a two and a half-year service term as
Interim Pastor. She has been focused, continues to lead, in the areas of Youth
and Family ministries.
Prior to
her service at Our Saviour's, Pastor Rhonda served as Associate Pastor at St.
John's in Wilmette, Illinois and served in a specialized interim context at
Bethany in Chicago. She enjoys connecting God's Word to modern day contexts and
helping people see themselves as a part of God's living Bible through story,
anecdotes and humor. She firmly believes that we are part of the continuum of
God's creative action in the world and our lives will one day give witness to
those coming after us as our biblical ancestors did for us.
Pastor
Rhonda was educated in Lutheran academic institutions, including Gustavus
Adolphus College, Carthage College (B.A.) and Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago (M.Div), but credits the many experiences at camp, youth gatherings,
and young adult service opportunities for helping to clarify her sense of call.
Pastor
Rhonda is proud to come from incredible (and incredibly large!) maternal (Pruitt)
and paternal (Graham) families, who have established her in faith,
relationships, and community. The love of many grandparents, aunts, cousins,
and extended family have filled her life with daily expressions of God's love
and grace. She praises God for her first church home, Bethel on Chicago's west
side, (the BEST side!) who helped her articulate faith and taught her to share
faith publicly.
Pastor
Rhonda preaches the all-inclusive love of God to people who can't live without
God and to people who don't know they need God!
Rhonda is
the mother of amazing seven and a half year-old twin boys Jaeden and Jahari,
and one four-legged fur baby, Caleb.
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