WELS Relief » Bio http://relief.wels.net/wpmu Just another Wels.net weblog Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Pastor Philip Schupmann, Chairman of WELS COR http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2007/02/27/pastor-philip-schupmann/ http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2007/02/27/pastor-philip-schupmann/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:53:41 +0000 Phil Schupmann http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2008/02/25/pastor-philip-schupmann/ schupmann-photo.jpgPhilip Schupmann is the chairman of the WELS Committee on Relief and has been serving in that role since 1999. He has served in the area of disaster relief for over 20 years.

The work of Relief is carried out by the Wisconsin Ev. Lutheran Synod with a committee of five. All serve as volunteers. Pastor Schupmann coordinates most of the grants the committee makes by phone and e-mail. When possible, he will also visit major disaster sites and help plan and coordinate relief efforts.

Schupmann is a full time pastor at Resurrection Ev. Lutheran Church in Aurora, Ill. He is a 1978 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and has served congregations in Illinois for 30 years. Philip is also currently the circuit pastor of the Central Circuit of the Chicago conference and is a member of the Board of Directors of Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Service.

Philip and Sara have six adult children. Most are serving full time in the Lord’s work.

]]> http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2007/02/27/pastor-philip-schupmann/feed/ Mark Vance, Disaster Relief Project Coordinator http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2007/02/26/mark-vance-disaster-relief-project-coordinator/ http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2007/02/26/mark-vance-disaster-relief-project-coordinator/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:17:38 +0000 mark vance http://relief.wels.net/wpmu/2008/02/26/mark-vance-disaster-relief-project-coordinator/ markvance.JPGA career military veteran, Mark retired from active duty in 1995 right after a deployment to Desert Storm. He then served as WELS South Atlantic District Coordinator for the Commission on Youth Discipleship from 1996-2002. While serving in that position he was asked by Pastor Richard Warnecke (WELS Kingdom Workers Faith In Action Administrator) shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Centers in Sept., 2001, to accompany him to New York City to help coordinate a joint disaster relief project between WELS Committee on Relief and WELS Kingdom Workers. Since then, Mark has been the main disaster relief coordinator for the Committee on Relief.

In the fall of 2007, the Committee on Relief and the WELS Military Services Committee entered into a joint agreement to share Mark’s services. So, along with being a disaster relief coordinator, he is the Director of Programs and Communication for the Military Services branch of WELS Special Ministries.

Married to his wife Dawn for 32 years, they have been blessed with three children and six grandchildren. Mark and Dawn are members at St. John’s Oakwood in Oak Creek, Wis.

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