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Staff
Pastor Bruce Stunkard
Pastor Bruce Stunkard, is a graduate of The Ohio State University, Michigan Technological University and United Theological Seminary. Bruce completed his Clinical Pastoral Education Residency with the Good Samaritan Society. He is also a certified Enneagram Instructor.
Bruce and his wife, Leslie, are the parents of four adult children -- Caitlin and Torin Kelly and Britta and Kristofer Stunkard. They have two dogs -- Charlie (English springer spaniel) and Mona (Tibetan Terrior).
Bruce has a passion for travel photography and mission work. He is a Conference Mission Ambassador and presents a variety of programs throughout the state based on his mission trips to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Kenya, Uganda, Turkey and India.
Prior to entering the ministry, Bruce was a professional mining engineer. He was appointed to the Hudson United Methodist Church in July 2008. He has also served the following Wisconsin United Methodist Churches: Ellsworth/Hartland/Diamond Bluff in Pierce County, Cumberland First/Mckinley in Barron and Polk County respectively. He is currently serving as the Chippewa District Mission co-coordinator.
Rev. Dr. Ruwal Freese
Director of Visitation Ministries and Pastoral Assistant
Because we feel congregational visitation is a very important and personal ministry that needs and requires pastoral support and leadership, Rev. Ruwal Freese (pronounced rule freeze) has been hired as Director of Visitation Ministries and Pastoral Assistant. Rev. Freese was installed on November 9th, 2008.
His two main areas of responsibility include:
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Providing pastoral services to the congregation and community when pastor Bruce is not in Hudson and when non-members request weddings and funerals. His goal -- to free Pastor Bruce for the important task of congregational leadership.
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Working with congregational ministers (members) in the area of visitation and member support. His goal -- to provide pastoral care and to encourage excellent congregational care of homebound persons and others in special need situations, and to involve the home-bound ministry to others.
His background includes:
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Married to wife, Mary, with three children ... one child in Minneapolis, and two children and six grandchildren living in Houston, Texas and Palo Alto, California.
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Served 35 years in United Methodist churches in Wisconsin. Has been retired for 10 years, living the simple life, selling or giving away their belongings and traveling the country in their travel trailer. This included hiking and volunteering in state and national park areas.
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Ministry with the homebound elderly was a special interest and the subject of his Doctor of Ministry study at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary.
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Volunteers at the Phipps Center (he's the usher with the bow tie).
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Director of Christian Ministries
Faith Kelly
Faith started her ministry as Director of Christian Ministries on June 8, 2009. Faith comes to us from a career deeply involved in education and Christian ministries. She began teaching vacation bible school at age 14 and has been teaching and ministering in both public schools and churches throughout her career. She received her Master of Arts degree in Christian Education at Bethel Theological Seminary and has completed further studies at United Seminary. Her career has taken her from Clarksville, Arkansas, where she was Christian Education and Religion instructor at University of the Ozarks, to Billings, Montana, where she was Director of Christian Education and a member of the Women's Prison Chapel Task Force, finally returning to Minnesota.
Faith will be responsible for managing, planning and coordinating the educational events that take place in the life of the church. More specifically, Faith will supervise and administer the children's, youth, adult, senior, family ministries and lay staff.
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Members of the interview team, along with Pastor Bruce, welcome Faith.
Choir Director
Changmean Kim
"Chungers" started his ministry at Hudson United Methodist Church in September 2009. He has a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls. Chungers has a varied music background including being a guest soloist for the Minnesota Korean Chorale where he sang with the choir as a bass section leader as well as singing several solo pieces. He was Music Director/Cantor at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in New Richmond, WI.; Music Director for the Korean Presbyterian Church of Minnesota, Brooklyn Center, MN., where he directed the church choir; and professional bass soloist/assistant accompanist for Ewha Women's University Church Choir in Seoul, South Korea, where he sang as a soloist. Vocal performance, conducting, accompaniment, arranging music, and improvising are just a few of Chungers' musical skills. He also is the event manager for the University Center at UWRF.
Youth Leader
Sue Lee
Sue leads the senior high ministries' team. She has been a volunteer at HUMC for nine years and has now officially become a member of the church staff. Sue owns a local business as a barber, and has learned she "can do more than cut hair." She expresses and exhibits a love for youth and for assisting them in growing in their faith and with one another.
Administrative Assistant, Kathy O'Brien Schroeder
With over ten years of experience of working in a church office setting, Kathy has a wealth of experience. Her most recent job has been providing administrative support at Hastings United Methodist Church. Her support included daily church office tasks and support, fundraising, adult ministries, missions, youth and children programs, inserts, newsletters, program registration, seminars, and special events. You name it and she has worked on it. Her passion is to lift up and support the body of Christ. Kathy has seen God bring about the right person for every task, which has led to a deepening of her faith. Her volunteer activities include behind the scene clerical support for European and Asian missions. She enjoys singing in the church choir, although Kathy doesn’t call it singing. It’s more like following along.
Words to describe Kathy are: friendly, honest, dependable, confidential, and intelligent. She is a hard worker with a strong Christian character. She has an Irish sense of humor, so be prepared to laugh or smile. In Kathy’s spare time she enjoys being with her family and household pets, reading, watching movies with her family, cooking, fishing, prayer, and helping her mother, who last year had a stroke.
Kathy has been happily married to her husband, Dave for 28 years. They met while having a snowball fight at the University of Minnesota. It was love from the first pitch. Originally from St. Paul, they moved to Hudson 16 years ago. Dave owns an Apple Computer store, Team Technology, in Woodbury, MN. They have one son named John O’Brien Schroeder. John recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin River Falls with a double major in Physics and Computer Science, with a Math minor.
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