Pastor Lauren Mildahl is currently serving in her first call at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Circle Pines. She graduated from Luther Seminary in 2025 after a career as a school librarian in Apple Valley. She is passionate about faith education, contemplative practices, and community life.

Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership, writing.

She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.

The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), June 2019.

Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.

Dr. Deanna Thompson is Director of the Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community and Martin E. Marty Regents Chair in Religion and the Academy at St. Olaf College. Author of five books, including Glimpsing Resurrection: Cancer,Trauma, and Ministry, Thompson speaks widely about how Lutheran Christian thought connects to daily living in a challenging, beautiful, and fraught world. She is an active member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul.

Claire Hoyum is a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul, where she has served since 1984 as a leader in refugee resettlement and immigrant justice ministries.  She has also served as a member of the congregation council and as congregational president; and as secretary of the Saint Paul Area Synod.  She lives in St. Paul with a demanding and adorable pup.

Bethany Ringdal is learning to live a Jesus-shaped life of hospitality and solidarity among global neighbors. She leads IAFR's Jonathan House program, a community of shelter, hope and healing where asylum seekers and Americans can thrive together. She lives with three generations in Crystal, MN, where her greatest aspiration is to grow fruit trees and make lots of pie.

Nancy Agneberg is a wife, mother, grandmother, and a spiritual director, who has been in practice for over 25 years. As a member of Gloria Dei, she facilitates a weekly contemplative writing group. Her intention through her writing and speaking is to help others grow spiritually and to integrate spiritual tools into their daily lives.

Linda Clarke joined the Executive Board in March, 2025. She is serving on Katie’s Fund Grants Review and Racial Justice Committees.

Linda is a lifelong resident of Sioux City, Iowa and a lifelong Lutheran. As a member of St. Mark Lutheran Church, she has participated in many functions of the church over the years. She’s treasurer of St. Mark’s Women’s Organization and Coordinator of the Sioux City Martha Cluster. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Western Iowa Synodical Women’s Organization. Linda helped organize, and is treasurer, of Food 4 Kids, an interdenominational organization that provides food for families in a neighborhood school.

Linda spends as much time as she can with her two daughters, their husbands, and two grandsons. She enjoys baking, music, reading and travel.

This will be Bishop Lull's last time with us as she retires. We will miss her Bible Studies.