Pastor Rhonda Pruitt will deliver the closing prayer at the 33rd Annual Arlington Heights Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, February 6, 2020, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the Doubletree Hotel, 75 Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights.
Pastor Rhonda Pruitt was 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 eight and a half year-old twin boys Jaeden and Jahari, and one four-legged fur baby, Caleb.
