Vocational ministry is a second career calling for Rob. After spending eleven years in banking, Rob graduated from Dubuque Theological Seminary and was called as teaching elder to Spirit of Life in September, 2012.  There is much to be excited with what God is doing at Spirit of Life.  Rob enjoys the many opportunities he has in ministry to share time with others.  As our Triune God is a relational God, Rob treasures our interconnectedness we share with God and one another.  Rob shares a special interest in establishing relationships with the un-churched and de-churched through hospitality that welcomes others at Spirit of Life, and by getting to know our neighbors out in the marketplace.  His wife, Lisa, is a nurse practitioner serving at the University of Minnesota Fairview, working with heart failure and heart transplant patients.  They have two sons: Cole, who is 13 and Luke, who is 10.

Kyle and Kate first met at the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities, where they both studied Music Education. Kate was a freshman from Eagan while Kyle was a sophomore, transplanted from Kenosha, Wisconsin. After sharing two conversations in four years, they each went their own way after graduation in 2009. Kate entered the music educator field by substitute teaching, volunteering and teaching private voice and piano lessons. At the same time, Kyle worked on his masters degree in trumpet performance as a graduate assistant at Michigan State University. When the two reunited, Kate was about to begin her position as a middle school choir director at Dakota Hills Middle School and Kyle was preparing for doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin: Madison. For three years the two were separated by a four-hour commute, but their excitement to make the drive for each other kept them close. During those three years, the choral program at Dakota Hills grew annually, strengthening under Kate’s leadership. In Wisconsin, Kyle performed with several symphonies on a regular basis, taught lessons and classes at all age levels and worked on his dissertation, which was accepted enthusiastically and will be published this Spring.