Redeemer Lutheran Church

Meet Our Church Staff

We are a congregation led by dedicated and enthusiastic leaders welcoming all who want to be a part of a growing faith community. All baptized Christians are invited to share in Holy Communion offered regularly throughout the year. Our Pastor, Rev. Gary N. Stiegler, offers membership classes throughout the year and welcomes you to inquire about them.

Rev. Gary N. Stiegler, Pastor

Pastor Stiegler

In August, 2009, Pastor Gary Stiegler accepted a call to serve as the pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Vineland.

"Pastor Gary" was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and spent his summers growing up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. He graduated from Susquehanna University with a degree in Psychology.

He and the former Janet Purvis have three grown children and nine grandchildren living in Salisbury, Maryland and Marlton, NJ.

Pastor Gary is a second career pastor having spent most of his adult life as the owner of a sales and marketing communications company providing sales and marketing services to Fortune 500 companies.

At age 50, Pastor Gary attended and graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He took his first call at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lakewood, New Jersey in 2001 where he served 8 years.

He is certified as a Mission Developer by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and helped "plant" a new church, GOD WITH US, on nine acres recently purchased in Jackson. He is active with the Vineland Ministerium, the South East Shore Chapter of Thrivent Financial For Lutherans, a member of the Critical Incident Stress Foundation and a member of the International Conference of Police Chaplains. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Shore Discovery Project and is a member of the Cumberland County Coalition for the Pascal-Sykes Foundation.

In December 2006, Pastor Gary joined with sixteen other mainline clergy for a tour of The Holy Lands sponsored by the United Jewish Communities and the Jewish Council For Public Affairs.

In February, 2010, he joined members of Redeemer on a Thrivent Financial Mission Trip to Mississippi to assist with the building of a home for Habitat for Humanity. Pastor Gary is a member of the Vineland Chamber of Commerce and the Vineland Rotary Club.

Pastor can be contacted via the following email address: pastor@redeemerlutheran.net.

Misty Fiske, Organist/Choir Director

Misty has been involved with church music most of her life serving as first a pianist and later an organist since 1993.

Since 1996 she has served as a choir director and accompanist, also accompanying a school choir part time. Misty has been a member of several local choirs, including the Cumberland County College chorus and the Trojan Alumni Chorus.

After several years of being the assistant organist she took a full time organist position in 2007, and joined Redeemer Luther an Church as the organist/choir director in 2008. When not at Redeemer Misty gives piano lessons, plays for local restaurants and festivals, and spends time with her family. She also plays alto horn with the Philadelphia Brigade Band, a Civil War band based in Gloucester County.

Misty hopes to continue to share a variety of music and add to the worship services here at Redeemer.

Additional Staff

Church Council

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