Salem Lutheran Church and School

Rev. Richard Rossow, Senior Pastor

After serving as a teacher at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Flint, Michigan. Pastor Rossow entered Concordia Theological Seminary - Ft. Wayne in 1986, and became the Pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Warren, Michigan in 1990. In March of 2002 he was installed as the Senior Pastor at Salem. As the Senior Pastor he is the primary preacher and is charged with the administrative leadership of the congregation.

John Wittmayer, Director of Music Ministries

John Wittmayer currently serves as the Director of Music Ministry at Salem Lutheran Church, a position he has held since 1995. His duties include overseeing, planning and leading music programs for the church and school. John earned a Bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University and a Master’s degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City. John is married to his beautiful wife, Karen, and they have a wonderful daughter, Jennifer.

Susan Jones, Church Office Secretary

Susan was born and raised in St. Louis, and attended Salem through her grade school years. In 1969 she was confirmed by Pastor Krentz & graduated. Susan is the mother of two beautiful girls, Jessica, who lives with her family in High Ridge, and Sondra, who went to live with her Heavenly Father in 1992. She is also the proud grandmother of 3 wonderful granddaughters and 2 very handsome step-grandsons. After working 9 years at a Church Secretary position, Susan came to Salem.  She feels being Church Secretary has been her calling. Not only does she love her job, Susan enjoys seeing and meeting all the people and loves being able to do work for God.  Susan says she has some mighty big & loving shoes to fill, being the daughter of Millie Bell, who was Salem School secretary for 25 years.

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Ryan Schroeder, Vicar

Vicar Ryan grew up in a pastor's family in Illinois and Wisconsin with fond memories split between farm life in Central Illinois and city life in Milwaukee.  He attended Concordia-Wisconsin in Mequon where he met his wife Cortney.  The couple was married on August 11, 2006.  After graduation Ryan began teaching religion at a local day school where he had planned to teach for a while with the thought of seminary, rattling in the back of his head.  But, Ryan says God led Cortney and him to the Seminary in St. Louis where they are continually challenged to grow in their dreams, their life together and most importantly their faith in Christ!

Earlier this summer the Schroeders became parents for the first time as they welcomed Noah into their family.  Cortney and Ryan are looking forward to many more challenges, experiences and adventures.

Kris Paul, Deaconess

Kristina attended Drake University, playing basketball and volleyball, and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Psychology and Business. Before coming to Concordia Seminary here in the fall of 2007, she was a social worker for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and a youth director at Christ the Rock LCMS in Rockford, IL. Kristina comes to Salem and the Affton Food Pantry to complete the internship portion of the Deaconess Studies program at Concordia Seminary.

Kristina is married to Nathan. They were married at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and currently reside in South St. Louis. Kristina’s parents, Rev. David and Jeanette Meggers, still call Rockford home, while her older brother Phil serves as a teacher at Concordia Lutheran High School in Omaha, NE.

Kristi Woods, Finance Coordinator

Kristi and her family moved to St. Louis in 1987, at which time she became a member at Salem. She was confirmed and graduated from Salem in 1993.  Kristi and her husband Shane were married in May 2001, and are blessed with two beautiful children, Madelyn and Joseph.  Kristi loves her job as the Finance Coordinator and feels very blessed to be working for the church.

Pam Moellenhoff, New Member Ministry

Pam hails from Seymour, Indiana.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in Education from Concordia - Ann Arbor and she also holds graduate credits from the University of Cincinnati.  Pam has taught full time for 10 years, and part time for 13 more.  Prior to serving Salem, Pam taught at Trinity Lutheran in Port Huron, Michigan and Concordia Lutheran in Cincinnati.  During her time at Salem she has subbed and taught middle school for 9 years.  Pam believes Salem is special because “it's a family and everyone cares about each other. Each person is an individual, not a number.”  Pam has two children: Kyle (Salem Class of ’08) who is a freshman at Lutheran South and Erin who is in 4th grade at Salem. In her spare time Pam enjoys being with her kids, reading, quilting, cross-stitch, crochet, weaving baskets, and watching Indiana basketball