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Pastor Barry Osterbur has been at Cross since March, 1987. Previously he served congregations in Harrisburg and Midlothian, IL, his home state. He graduated from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH, in 1971, and has graduate degrees from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN and McCormick Seminary in Chicago.
Pastor Barry is married to Elaine, who teaches private violin lessons. Their family includes a son Stefan, who is married to Nikki; they have a son Owen. Their daughter Rachel is married to James Chapman. Another son, Nathan, died in 2003.
Pastor Barry serves as chair of the joint Michigan Synods Candidacy Committee. He helps to lead the Chippewa Valley Schools Inter-Faith Partnership, which coordinates church and community events for drug and alcohol abuse prevention. He is active in the Clinton Valley Kiwanis.
Pastor Kimberly A. Vaughn began serving at Cross as a part-time, short-term pastor in May of 2009. She was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Cleveland Public Schools.
She is from a large, close family that still resides in Cleveland. She attended Cleveland State University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in History in 2003. She attended the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and graduated with her Master of Divinity with a concentration in Urban Ministry in 2008.
Pastor Kimberly also served on the board of the ELCA's Division for Congregational Ministries as well as on the staff of the Southeast Michigan Synod as Director of Youth Ministry. Also, she serves 2/3 time as co-pastor of Genesis Lutheran Church in Detroit.
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