LFL Board of Directors

Lutherans For Life Board of Directors
	Diane Schroeder (LCMS) – President – and her husband, Carl, are parents of four children. Diane has been active in LFL since 1985 when she helped organize the DuPage County chapter in northern Illinois. She also participated in starting the Illinois federation of LFL and served as its president until her election as an at-large member of the national LFL board of directors in 2000. In 1991, she helped organize Word of Hope (formerly known as LFL Healing Hearts), the post-abortion outreach ministry of LFL. She is also on staff at CareNet Pregnancy Services of DuPage as Director of Communications. Diane and her family are members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Elmhurst, Illinois.
	Rodney Rathmann (LCMS) – Vice-President – taught and served as administrator of Lutheran schools in Minnesota and Ohio before joining the editorial staff of Concordia Publishing House where he now serves as the senior editor of day and midweek school materials. Rodney was a member of the LCMS Sanctity of Life Task Force. He and his wife, Dawn, attend Christ Memorial Lutheran Church in suburban St. Louis. They are the parents of two grown sons and two grandchildren.
	Jean Amundson (LCMS) – Secretary – and her husband, Robert, are the parents of four children and seven grandchildren. Jean became active in LFL after attending a national conference in Dallas several years ago. She is the president of Texas Lutherans For Life and a Life Ministry Coordinator at her congregation. She organized and leads a post-abortion recovery ministry—Hope in the Mourning—with the support of the local pregnancy center. Jean served five years (2000-2005) as a Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) Mission Ministry Vision (MMV) consultant for Texas. In 2005, she was nominated for LWML Texas Lutheran Woman of the Year. Jean speaks to adult Bible classes and church organizations on pro-life issues. Robert is a router for a Wal-Mart Distribution Center. Jean is a retired certified professional secretary (CPS).
	Richard A. Greiner (LCMS) – Treasurer – and his wife Laura, of Dansville, Michigan, have nine children. Rich and his wife own and manage a real estate management firm: GFP Management LLC. He serves on many community associations and is actively involved at St. Matthew Lutheran Church. Greiner is a director of a local community bank and MOST Ministries where he serves as treasurer. Greiner’s business experience dates back to the 1970s and includes construction, investment, real estate, and military service. Greiner has extensive international missionary travel experience.
	Connie Davis (LCMS) – State Representative – and her husband, Terry, are the parents of three sons. She has served as president of LFL of Michigan since 1993 and serves as a federation representative on the national board. Connie helped organize and served as president of the Loving Arms chapter of LFL in Macomb County (1985-1994). Connie has served on the Michigan LFL board of directors as Christian growth chairman and chapter development chairman. She currently serves on the advisory board of Compassion Pregnancy Center, a CPC spearheaded by Loving Arms LFL. Connie speaks to Bible classes, church organizations, and parochial schools on pro-life issues. Her husband is the principal of St. Peter Lutheran School in Macomb and serves as Lutheran schools representative on the LFL of Michigan board of directors.
	John Eidsmoe (AFLC) – is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and Alabama State Defense Force Colonel, Headquarters Judge Advocate, Deputy Chaplain and Training Officer. He is a Professor of Law at the Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy, and in his various teaching assignments his students have giving him the Outstanding Professor Award or Prof of the Year Award five times. He has served as Senior Staff Attorney at the Alabama Supreme Court and is currently Legal Counsel for the Foundation for Moral Law. He is an ordained pastor with the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations and serves on the Board of Lutherans for Life and on the Board of the Plymouth Rock Foundation, and is a constitutional attorney who has defended home schools, Christian schools, the right of students to study the Bible in public schools, and the right of public officials to display the Ten Commandments. He has authored 13 books and numerous audio and video lecture series. He holds six academic degrees in law, theology and political science, as well as graduating from the Air Command & Staff College and the Air War College. He is Third Degree Black Belt with the American Taekwondo Foundation, a Fifth Degree Black Belt with the Gospel Martial Arts Union, and a Fifth Degree Black Belt with Black Belts of the Faith International. Colonel Eidsmoe is an avid horseman and skier. He and his wife Marlene have been married since 1970, have three children (David, Kirsten, and Justin), and live in rural Pike Road, Alabama.
	Rev. Mark Erickson (CLBA) is a professor at the Church of the Lutheran Brethren Seminary in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Pro-life activities include 22 years of teaching the pro-life message to his congregation as parish minister. He is outspoken and articulate on the life issues. He supported his wife, Kristin, in her service as North Dakota LFL president. The Ericksons live in Fergus Falls. Pastor Mark was born and raised in Aitkin, Minnesota; received the AA from Golden Valley Lutheran College (LBI), BA from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota (then ALC), and the M.Div. from Lutheran Brethren Seminary (CLBA) in 1983. Pastor Mark was married to Kristin (then LCA) in 1983 and they are the proud parents of two sons and four exchange-student “daughters.” In his 25 years of Christian ministries in Connecticut, New Jersey, North Dakota, and now Minnesota, he has purposefully and passionately shared the sanctity of human life message via sermons, Bible studies, confirmation classes, school groups, and other youth group opportunities. Mark was involved in prayerful sidewalk marches with his youth group and adult Sunday school class at an abortion clinic in Connecticut and in laying the groundwork for a crisis pregnancy center in Connecticut in 1984. Mark and Kristin served as missionaries from 1985-89 with the CLBA in France (while learning French) and in Chad and Cameroon; Mark as an exegete in Bible Translation and Kristin as a nurse/health educator. After Mark and Kristin returned to the US they served a parish in Fargo, North Dakota and became active in the local Fargo-Moorhead LFL chapter in 1990. Mark served as the FM LFL Pastoral Advisor from 1992-94. Kristin was on the ND LFL board from 1992-2006 and served as ND LFL president from 1994-2006. Mark served on the Bioethics Committee for the CLBA and was one of a panel of pastors presenting on “life issues in the church” at the 2003 National LFL Convention. Mark and Kristin were presented the Dr. Jean Garton Life Award at the 2003 FM LFL Chapter Annual Banquet. Mark began pursing graduate studies in exegesis at Concordia Seminary (LCMS) in St. Louis, Missouri, in the fall of 2006, and in the fall of 2008 joined the faculty at the CLBA Seminary where he is professor of Greek, New Testament, and preaching. He continues to love preaching and teaching, and looks forward to guest speaking opportunities at worship services, Sunday schools, family Bible camps, youth Bible camps, and conventions. In his spare time Mark enjoys reading, fishing, traveling, baseball (GO TWINS), and playing Scrabble with his wife!
	Renee Gibbs (LCMS) – is, first and foremost, a wife, mother, and grandmother. She is the wife of Dr. Jeff Gibbs who teaches at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where they have lived for 17 years. Renee has been active in the pro-life movement in many capacities. She advised the Teens for Life group at Lutheran High, St. Charles County, Missouri, taking teens to Washington, DC, for the March for Life for many years. She frequently speaks on life issues to parents and seminary classes, encouraging students in their future roles as pastors and leaders. Renee participates in regular prayer vigils at Planned Parenthood. She and Jeff serve as advisors for the seminary life group. Renee leads numerous Bible studies and mentoring groups for seminary wives. She also speaks at retreats and other functions for Christian women. Renee has led several seminary mission trips to Guatemala. She taught and consulted in Special Education for 18 years. Currently she is completing her MA in Theology at Concordia Seminary. The Gibbs have four grown children and five grandchildren.
	Rev. Everette E. Greene (LCMS) – was born March 6, 1961, in Baltimore, Maryland where he grew up. He attended Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, from 1979-1983, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He went on from there to attend Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1983-1985 at which time he left school to help his then ailing parents. After leaving school he had various jobs, most involving his occupational second love, driving. He drove everything from armored cars to armored tractor-trailers, regular tractor-trailers and finally motor coaches (charter buses). During this time his mother went on to her eternal rest in 1987. His father has had many strokes but is now doing well. In 1997 he met Rhonda Sherrice Smith and her daughter Paige. He and Rhonda were married on Christmas Eve that same year. In the summer of 2000 he returned to his studies, this time at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. After completing his classroom preparation, he was assigned to Ebenezer Lutheran Church-Greensboro, NC. There he served as Vicar for a year. He received his Master of Arts in Theology in 2003. On April 7, 2003, he received his call to be pastor at St. Philip Lutheran Church, Chattanooga, TN. He was ordained on June 29, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was installed as pastor at St. Philip on July 6, 2003. On January 6, 2006 he became pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Gary Mrosko (LCMS) – His pro-life activities include daily prayer for life issues and financial support for life ministry. Experienced in non-profit management and strategic planning, he helped the LFL Board of Directors develop its current mission, vision, and values statements. Before retiring, Gary directed various nonprofit Christian based facilities for people with disabilities for over 40 years. Gary and his wife, Barb, live in Faribault, Minnesota.
	Jeanne Strubbe (LCMS) worked for 30 years at the Jacksonville Journal-Courier newspaper with her last position being Classified Advertising Manager. She retired in April 2007, wanting to get further involved in the pro-life movement. Jeanne writes a weekly Life Lines article that is sent to area Lutheran churches for publication in Sunday bulletins. She is secretary-treasurer for the Illinois Valley Lutherans for Life chapter 210 and a member of LWML. Jeanne lives on the family farm west of Jacksonville. Jeanne's husband, Richard, passed away from non-smokers lung cancer on July 19, 2009. She has a son, Craig, a grandson, Michael, and two daughters, Sarah and Stephanie. Sarah is a Lutheran school teacher at Salem Lutheran School in Jacksonville, IL and now lives with her mom, and Stephanie is the store manager for Aerie in Springfield, Illinois where she lives with her husband, Dustin. Jeanne is a member of Salem Lutheran Church, Jacksonville and serves as Life Ministry Coordinator for Salem.