Emmanuel Lutheran Church Announces a New Pastor
All Are Invited
Rite of Invitation to Extended Service
Pastor TroyAnn Poulopoulos
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
920 Third Avenue, Rockford, Illinois
Clergy are invited to vest in white robes
and process
Fellowship and refreshments following service.
Contact Karen Van Howe for more information.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church cordially invites you to celebrate with us the Rite of Invitation to Extended Service for our new pastor, TroyAnn Poulopoulos.
Pastor TroyAnn Poulopoulos comes to us from Memphis, Tennessee, where she was most recently senior pastor of St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church. She has been active in revitalization efforts, has served as director of conference and retreat centers, worked with inner city youth, campus ministries, community services for the poor involving arts and service programs, spiritual outreach, and community justice. As an elder in the United Methodist Church, Pastor TroyAnn will accept an Invitation to Extended Service with Emmanuel Lutheran Church. The ELCA and the United Methodist Church are “full communion” partners.
In addition to a Masters in Divinity, Pastor TroyAnn has a B.A. and M.S. in health, physical education and recreation, with emphases on health education, exercise physiology, kinesiology, and adaptive physical education. Her interests include music show production, singer-songwriter music, storytelling, the blues, and flat water kayaking, and her dachshund Nickolas Von Klaus. Pastor TroyAnn is a widow with an adult daughter.
Pastor TroyAnn is comfortable with a wide range of worship styles. She is known for making the words of the traditional liturgy come to life. She has also spoken nationally on Emerging Worship. She likes to incorporate other spiritual traditions into her own spiritual practice and study. She has used meditation, singing bowls, drums, and nature experiences to enrich her Christian Spirituality. She speaks regularly with friends of Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha’i, and Unitarian traditions about life, world affairs, and spiritual reflection. “We have much to learn from one another and… peace among us depends on the type of respect that leads to deep listening.”