Explore Flipsnack. Transform boring PDFs into engaging digital flipbooks. Share, engage, and track performance in the same platform.
From magazines to catalogs or private internal documents, you can make any page-flip publication look stunning with Flipsnack.
Check out examples from our customers. Digital magazines, zines, ebooks, booklets, flyers & more.
Pre-made templates to create stunning publications in minutes
Here are eight reasons why you should consider choosing interactive, digital flipbooks instead of boring and static PDFs. Check them out!
2 NortheasterN Iowa syNod | .nin.g Theological Seminary (WTS) in Dubuque. Through his our years at Wartburg College and frst year at seminary, Gerrietts served as a camp counsel- or at what is now Ingham Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camp. It was during this time that he met his uture wie, Jeanette, who worked at the camp as an assistant cook and later as a counselor. During seminary, Gerrietts also worked evenings and weekends or the Boys Club o Dubuque, leading activities or at- risk youth. His third-year seminary internship took Gerrietts to the Mental Health Institute at Independence, where he met each new patient who checked in to the hospital and learned frst- hand how important the church is to broken lives. One ater another, the patients told Gerrietts how they elt their lives were alling apart, and a call to the pastor helped them get to a doctor or a hospital or the care they needed. They were com- orted knowing that their church amilies were taking care o their own amilies back home, and their pastors were going to come see them. “I went into the internship as a religious person in a secular en- vironment and I came away with a greater loyalty and love or the insti- tution o the church because o all the people it had helped get through mental health care,” Gerrietts said. “It was a whole dierent world or this young man.” Gerrietts wasted no time begin- ning his lie o ministry in 1969: He graduated rom seminary in May, was ordained June 22, was married June 28, and started his frst call at Redeemer Lutheran, Washburn, while still on his honeymoon. He came to a community o primar- ily actory workers who were eel- ing threatened by recent race riots in Waterloo, mandated busing to schools, and new ederal hiring regulations at their places o em- ployment. “Racial tension was a major theme in the community and churches, and people elt their jobs and homes were under threat,” Gerrietts said. “I recall olks were very much troubled with that. As a arm boy, this was all new to me.” Ater our years, Gerrietts decided to “test the call,” which brought him to St. Paul’s Lutheran in Rock- well City. The St. Paul’s ministry historically included calling on inmates at the nearby Iowa State Reormatory or Women, but Ger- rietts took that a step urther by working with the warden to start a chaplaincy program at the reorma- tory. Gerrietts served one morning a week there, where he visited with inmates, set up a library, and creat- ed a system which allowed inmates who had earned privileges to attend worship services at some o the churches in Rockwell City. “It was very cutting edge and very risky or the warden and me, and or the congregation, even though the inmates were accompanied,” Gerrietts said. “The inmates literally joined the church. They could not teach Sunday school, but some o them wrote curriculum. It was very successul or the liers.” A group o the inmates become Gerrietts’ second congregation at the reormatory. “They could swear like troopers and it became obvi- Darrel Gerrietts leaves his mark on rural Iowa ministries << Continued from page 1 >> Continued on page 3 Darrel Gerrietts and his family during their years in Rockwell City where Gerrietts served as pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran and chaplain of the Iowa Women’s Reformatory. “Darrel received the call to the synod ofce due to the wisdom he brought rom years o parish experience, his love or Jesus and God’s people, and his appreciation or rural lie and ministry.”
The cookies we use on Flipsnack's website help us provide a better experience for you, track how our website is used, and show you relevant advertising. If you want to learn more about the cookies we're using, make sure to check our Cookie policy
We use essential cookies to make our site work for you. These allow you to navigate and operate on our website.
We use performance cookies to understand how you interact with our site.They help us understand what content is most valued and how visitors move around the site, helping us improve the service we offer you.
We use marketing cookies to deliver ads we think you'll like.They allow us to measure the effectiveness of the ads that are relevant for you.