Early in this decade, Rev. Ron Krueger answered a call to ministry in Spring, Texas. He was followed in St. John's pulpit by the arrival of Rev. Frank Horak who served as interim pastor while we looked for a full-time pastor.

    Rev. Horak looked around the church and found things that we could do to improve the church building. The projects that we entered into included carpet for the rooms and folding chairs and round tables for the assembly room. Then we acquired a 12' conference table and 14 maroon arm chairs for meeting use. We added Confirmand/Acolyte robes and an eternal light for the Chancel. We looked at the Pastor's Study and re-covered the couch and chairs there. All of this occurred in 1995. Rev. Horak came up with many things for us to do and coined the phrase "the church at the rise in the road".

    December of 1995, Rev. Larry Bünger arrived to be our next settled pastor. He served us until his health failed. January 2002, Rev. John Will arrived to serve as interim. Our Search Committee worked diligently and found Rev. Robert Workman to serve as our next settled pastor. He arrived in August 2002. He served until November 2003 when he left the St. John pastorate.

    This brings us to the most recent five years of blessings this church has enjoyed. The Looking Back project will be completed in next month's newsletter.