The Rev'd Deacon Rodger Patience

    My assingment form Bishop Miller is twofold: I serve at St. Luke's at least two Sunday's per month, and attend the Bishop on his regular Sunday visitations from time to time.

    

 

    I am the son and grandson of priests, and the godson of a bishop. I didn't stand a chance. I have been a deacon since 1996. My wife, Katrin, and I live in Walsworth-a small town on the Wisconsin-Illinois state line out in the cornfields west of Lake Genevcea. Iam a sales executive for TeleTracking Technologies, the leading provider of patient flow sorgware for hospitals, and I am traveling three to four days a week

               

     

    There are three main things I am passionate about in the life of the Church and of individual Christians: prayer, as shaped by our prayer book's marvelous Daily Office. Scriture, especially when familiarity brings the living Word into our hearts as well as our heads; and compassion, expressed in generous giving and cheerful encouragement.

Dr. Marilyn Stulken, Organist

Dr. Stulken has been organist at St. Luke's since 1986. She is a gifted organist with a special interest in hymnody. Marilyn is a published author of books about hymns and other music, and is frequently asked to write for other publications. She also teaches at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon and has an active class of organ scholars. Together with our Choirmaster, Jim Schatzman, she makes music on Sundays, Festivals, and Feast Days to inspire and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.

Mr. James A. Schatzman, Choirmaster

Mr. Schatzman came to St. Luke's with his family in 1978, in part, to sing with the choir under the direction of his college vocal coach Dr. Carol Irwin, under whom he served as assistant conductor. After nearly five years in the choir and with the recommendation of Dr. William Weinert (presently head of Choral Activities at the Eastman School of Music) he was hired as Choirmaster in 1983. In his twenty years as choirmaster he has grown the program to be one of the most respected in the diocese. James studied music at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside where his focus was music education, conducting, French horn and vocal studies. James holds a certificate from the Institute for Christian Studies of Nashota House Seminary where he studied under Fr. Peter Arvedson, Fr. Joseph Hunt and music and liturgy scholar, Fr. Louis Weil. He also credits much of his knowledge and passion for hymns to his ongoing work with internationally acclaimed hymn scholar, organist and author, Dr. Marilyn K. Stulken. James' expertise and knowledge of the Anglican heritage have shaped the liturgical music program to be both traditional and creative. The compositions of European and American composers are given equal expression in the tradition of the Anglican communion.

Mr. Schatzman has over twenty-five years of choral conducting experience and is well respected for his work in liturgical and community settings. He has served on the diocesan Commission on Music and Liturgy and as conductor for diocesan festival choirs and other combined choirs within his regional convocation and at the Diocesan Cathedral in Milwaukee. His choirs have been heard on state-wide broadcasts of Wisconsin Public Radio, WGTD, WRJN and WTMJ television. He is a frequent guest on WGTD's The Morning Show with Gregory Berg. Along with his responsibilities at St. Luke's he is currently Conductor and Artistic Director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin and the Kiwanis Chamber Singers, a community high school choir. As part of St. Luke's musical outreach to the community he has also conducted acclaimed performances of Menotti's Amahl and The Night Visitors, Bach's Cantata No. 4 - Christlag In Todesbanden, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Burleigh's Lamentation and Celebration and Alpha Mass, Vaughan William's Five Mystical Songs, English Folk Song Suite and O Clap Your Hands, Randall Thompson's Peaceable Kingdom, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers and Alleluia and Schutz's Seven Last Words from the Cross. He also has prepared sacred works for the Racine Symphony which include the requiems of Brahms, Faure, Mozart and well as masses by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Vaughan Williams' Hodie and The First Nowell and oratorios by Handel and a choral symphony of Mendelssohn. Next season Mr. Schatzman will prepare Bach's monumental B Minor Mass. He has also been a guest conductor with the Racine Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Schatzman is also active in education outreach where he has presented two programs to middle schoolers and area fourth and fifth graders. The programs, What's In A Song and Meet The Composer bring professional opera singers and celebrated American composers to young people throughout our school system to promote the arts and encourage our next generation of "Mozarts and Bernsteins."

James is also founder and executive director of Racine Vocational Ministry. He is a lifelong resident of Racine where he lives with his wife of 30years, JaneMarie and his four boys, Stephen, Luke, Gabriel and Christopher.

JaneMarie Schatzman is our Parish Administrator. She performs clerical duties acts as Office Manager and acts as a liaison between the congregation, staff and the public, to ensure that the parish operates smoothly.

Office hours are 8:00am.- Monday thru Thursday. 262-634-5529

Laura Casteneda is our Financial Secretary.