Kent Schaaf

• Provided pastoral care to individuals in need, offering counseling, guidance, and support during difficult times.
• Provided spiritual care through visitation, counseling, and prayer.
• Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, and nursing home services.
• Planned and conducted worship services, wrote sermons, and worked with key church leaders to carry out church mission.
• Helped to create welcoming environment for visitors and encouraged congregation to offer support.
• Oversaw administration and management of all areas of ministry.

Administrative pastor of a congregation of 600 members and a K-8 Day School of 200.

Coordinated with multi pastoral staff, and school staff of 27 to oversee both church and school operations.

Regularly taught and preached at multiple services each Saturday and Sunday.

• Provided pastoral care to individuals in need, offering counseling, guidance, and support during difficult times.
• Provided spiritual care through visitation, counseling, and prayer.
• Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, and nursing home services.
• Strengthened relationships between families by initiating regular events and workshops catered to their needs.
• Planned and conducted worship services, wrote sermons, and worked with key church leaders to carry out church mission.
• Helped oversee weekday high school youth center that offered free tutoring, counseling and activities.

Relocated and replanted the congregation to a new building and location to restart ministry and mission.

• Provided spiritual care through visitation, counseling, and prayer.
• Officiated special services such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, and nursing home services.
• Strengthened relationships between families by initiating regular events and workshops catered to their needs.
• Planned and conducted worship services, wrote sermons, and worked with key church leaders to carry out church mission.
• Fostered a welcoming environment for newcomers by creating an inclusive culture within the church community.

• Provided spiritual guidance, emotional support and direct care to firefighters, family members and staff.
• Met with individuals, discussed issues compassionately and determined appropriate type of involvement to meet spiritual needs.
• Developed relationships with first responders and families, resulting in increased trust and rapport during difficult times.
• Comforted family members, offered attentive listening and high level of emotional support during first responder situations.
• Applied knowledge regarding crisis interventions to assist in emergency situations.
• Trained at South Carolina Fire Academy and volunteered as a firefighter in addition to chaplain duties.