We have a new interim pastor!

Brief bio for the Rev Lyle A Kleman

Rev Kleman “officially” retired July 1, 2008.  Prior to that he served the North/West Lower Michigan Synod as an Intentional Interim Minister for 26 years.  All but one of the interims was part time. 

Rev Kleman served two settled pastorates: In Hecla, SD, and in Saginaw, MI before beginning his Intentional Interim duties.

He and his wife, Ann, a retired public school teacher, moved to Cedar Rapids in the summer of 2008.  

While Rev Kleman was doing his various part time interim ministries, he also was a radio news director for 12 years in Saginaw, MI and for 10 years served as Executive Director of the Bridge Center for Racial Harmony, a race relations program, also in Saginaw.

In addition to his ministry, radio and race relations experiences, Rev Kleman is a Professional Registered Parliamentarian with the Independence, MO-based National Association of Parliamentarians.  He will serve as the parliamentarian for the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis this August. 

The Kleman’s have two sons, Ian and Christopher.  Ian and Gina and their three children live in Cedar Rapids, where Ian teaches Physics at Washington High School and Gina is a Home-school Consultant with the Marion Independent School District.

Christopher and Emily live in Minneapolis, where Chris works for Wells Fargo Bank and Emily is a documentary filmmaker.

Rev Kleman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from St Olaf College, Northfield, MN and his Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT. 

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