2023 Staten Island Conference Report
The Rev. Wolfgang Laudert, Dean
Greetings from the Staten Island Conference. We, the five mission outposts on Staten Island are church together! As colleagues we meet regularly for text study, conversation, and fellowship. Each Lent, we join and worship in each other’s faith communities for midweek services. We celebrated the Easter Vigil together. We are always in conversation about our individual and collective futures. We continue to celebrate the success of encouraging collaboration among the churches. In so many ways, we model what it means to be church together. We demonstrate as a conference that we are, “Forward Together in Christ!”
- Trinity called the Rev. Stephanie Jaeger
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Pr. Jaeger was installed August 2023
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Pr. Garry Squire retired in 2023
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Messiah welcomes The Rev. Anna Gordy appointed interim pastor in 2024
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We welcome the Rev. Charbel Zgheib as pastor to Salam/Arabic, Brooklyn and the Founder & Executive Director at Salam Radio Station, on Staten Island. Salam Radio Station is the first Arabic Christian online media organization in the United States, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Christ, Staten Island celebrates 100 years in 2025
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Pr. Laudert celebrates ten years as pastor to Christ Lutheran Church
As a conference we continue to share both gifts and burdens with each other. It is a hopeful sign that while we hear about change and transition across this church, accompaniment is the watchword for Staten Island. The Holy Spirit continues to work with and among us on this our little beloved “forgotten borough.”
Text Study with the Staten Island Conference. Trinity, SI calls The Rev. Stephanie
Jaeger as new pastor.
MNYS 2024 Bishop’s Retreat, SI pastors gather.
2024 Staten Island Conference Christmas Party. We welcome the Rev. Anna Gordy
as interim pastor, Messiah SI
Christ, Staten Island celebrates 100th Anniversary this year
Christ Lutheran established 1925