RECTOR'S REFLECTIONS

MEET OUR DEACON INTERN

For those of you who haven’t met me yet or don’t know me, my name is Sherrill Russell and for the next six months I will join you in worship as a Deacon Intern. This internship is the final step in four years of study to becoming a deacon and follows five months I spent as a chaplain intern at Research Medical Center. My projected ordination date is sometime in February, 2011.

My home parish is Church of the Redeemer where my husband and I were received as members in 1964. I am excited to be part of the Good Shepherd family because it was here over 30 years ago that my husband, Chuck, and I became aware of the power of the Holy Spirit and the unconditional love of our Lord, so Good Shepherd has a special place in my heart. I can almost tell you where I was sitting in the Parish Hall when I was overcome with the love of Christ.

Chuck and I have been married 49 years and we have three children, Kendra, Amy and Michael. We are also blessed with six grandchildren who all live within three miles of us. Our home for the past 32 years has been at Weatherby Lake in Platte County.

I have an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from CMSC, now the University of Central Missouri. My graduate degree is in Adult and Occupational Education from Kansas State University and I have taken additional course work in Old Testament, Women in the Bible, Priest and Prophets, and Hebrew (don’t ask me to translate or speak it--we call it ―baby‖ Hebrew) at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. My husband graduated from the University of Missouri at Rolla, now the University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Missouri, with a degree in Geology/Geological Engineering. He worked as a field geologist for a few years when we lived in Chicago and retired from Kansas City
Power and Light as Fuel Buyer and Contract Negotiator for Fuels Contracts.

Most of my work life has been as an Office Administrator with a law firm and employee benefits consulting firm which included Human Resources and Facilities Management. While my husband was in school at Rolla I taught the first four grades in a country school and then three years as a business teacher at the Rolla Area Vocational Technical School.

Thank you for the warm welcome I have received from those of you I’ve met and for the patient tutoring of Father Punzo.

Deacon Sherrill Russell

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