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This page gives us the opportunity to introduce the pastors and key staff members.

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Senior Pastor

Reverend Rodney L. Ronneberg, STS - has been St Paul's pastor since 1989.  Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, and reared in Longmont, Colorado, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  He has completed additional post graduate studies in worship and theology at Gettysburg Seminary and in ecumenical studies at St. Thomas Seminary in Denver; as a student of Liturgy he has regularly attended the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University.  He has served as co-chair of synodical worship committees in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He has been pastor of Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania and Colorado. He is the author of A Little Book of Canons, a book of Eucharistic prayers, first published in 1997.  He is a member of the Society of the Holy Trinity (STS), and was the founding Dean of its Chesapeake-Potomac Chapter.  He serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Lutheran Home in Rockville, MD.  On June 29, 2006, he celebrated his 31st Anniversary of Ordination.  He is an avid runner and loves music - from Bach to Rock!  He is married to Prudence Hunter Ronneberg.  They have three grown children and are the proud grandparents of Aidan, Gillian, and Cameron.

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Associate Pastor

Rev. Cathy Ammlung, STS, Associate Pastor-   is from the Chicago area.  She graduated from Loyola University of Chicago and has a Master's degree in Chemistry from Northwestern (where she met her husband, Rich).  She and Rich were married in 1977.  
They moved to St. Louis after Rich got his doctorate in chemistry.  While there, she took classes at local seminaries; she finished her M.Div. at Gettysburg in 1987 and her Master's degree in Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis the following year.  She and Rich then moved to Massachusetts, where she was ordained in 1990.  They moved to Maryland in 1994. She is a member of the Society of the Holy Trinity.  Her hobby and passion is raising, breeding, training and competing (obedience, agility, and herding) their Shetland Sheepdogs ("mini Lassies").  She and Rich have 5 dogs : Amelia, Piccolo, Chipper, Lyta, and Lyta's newest puppy Kiri.


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Debbie Marston, our Administrative Assistant

Debbie has been our administrative assistant and office manager for the past three years.  In addition to her daily work, she is also the council rep. for Christian Education at St. Paul's. 


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