Meet Our Vestry
DANIEL DABROSKI
Senior Warden
DAN DABROSKI
Member of the Vestry
Daniel is originally from Marlboro, NY. He moved to Las Vegas, NV, in 2017 after joining the United States Air Force, where he serves as a Civil Engineer Officer. Daniel is not only passionate about all things building related but also passionate in serving youth and the LGBTQ community. Before the Air Force, Daniel held jobs as a case manager in a homeless shelter for at-risk youth in Detroit, Michigan, was a Building Performance Specialist specializing in Residential Green Building, was a teaching assistant, and worked as an assistant manager at a group home for teens with behavior issues. He has also volunteered as a group facilitator in an LGBTQ center in Detroit and served in Big Brother Big Sister in NY. He LOVES his new home here in Las Vegas that he shares with his sassy dog Luna! At All Saints, he serves on the Vestry, as a Delegate to the Annual Diocese Convention, teaches teen religious education, serves as an Usher, and is a part of the All Saint’s Needlers.
Education
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Geographic Information System (GIS), Virginia Commonwealth University
Coursework towards a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a Minor in Environmental Studies, University at Buffalo
Associate in Science in Industrial Technology: Drafting & Design, SUNY Ulster
Favorite Food: Seafood
Hobbies: Crocheting, kayaking, playing with my dog, construction projects, crafting, antiquing, wine tasting, art festivals
If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
What is your favorite attribute of God? Humility and All-Loving
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? Colossians 4:23 “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord.”
STEVE NINEMIRE
Junior Warden
STEVEN NINEMIRE
Junior Warden
I was born in Springfield, Missouri, in the first six months of my life there, and I do remember they had red geraniums in the yard. Then we moved to Seattle Washington, where my father was discharged from the Navy. We then continued to live and Washington and Oregon. My father was a telegraph operator for Northern Pacific Railroad, and we moved every 3 or 4 weeks from one telegraph depot out in the middle of nowhere to another. We simply followed the Harvest. Rarely did we live in places where there were more people or children than the three of us. By the time I got to first grade, we had moved 35 times.
Having grown up in the Northwest one morning when I was 27, I decided to move to New York City, and a month later, I was there sleeping on a pier off of Hell’s Kitchen. The dean at St John the Evangelist in Spokane Washington gave me some introduction to people he knew at Trinity Wall Street, and my life grew into the city from there.
As I moved onto life in Manhattan, I had a great time working with interior design architects on renovation projects on 5th Avenue and Park Avenue apartments and penthouses. But my real favorite job was as a gardener for the parts department and the newly renovated Union Square Park. Where I am community leaders of that area collaborated to create large public floral gardens to be enjoyed. One of my favorite projects at that time was the floral display of the American and French flags intertwined made from 40000 red white and blue petunias in Battery Park for the reopening dedication for the Statue of Liberty. I was also a privilege to work with private citizens and their Penthouse Gardens. CEO s of Revlon, Warner Communications, and Jackie Onassis.
I have now lived in Las Vegas for 19 years. I have never lived anywhere that long, though I have lived in four different addresses since I’ve been here. I have lived at my present address for 13 years. I have been with my husband since 2002 we have been married now for seven years. He is Japanese.
Things I love are watching sunsets, snowstorms coming at you across Lake Tahoe, staring at a blue sky through the branches and flowers of a Palo Verde. It is in these things I am in the beauty of God and can sense the love. ” But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven” Matt.5:44-45
Joan Cochran
Clerk
Joan Cochran
Waiting Biography
Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Will Rydell
Will Rydell
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Nora Uribe
GUSS GUSTAFSON
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
David Ipharr
David Ipharr
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Esmeralda Ramirez
GUSS GUSTAFSON
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Candace Abraham
Candace Abraham
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Rick Walsh
Rick Walsh
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald’s that would be there years later, he learned of a city called “Las Vegas.”
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints’ Episcopal church. “Make friends!” they said. “You’ll like it!” they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He’d brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as “Guss”) got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don’t make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn’t mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is “yes.” If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people… What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
Karina Hernandez
Karina Hernandez
Clerk of the Vestry
Karl Edmund Gustafson IV was born in Würzburg, Bayern, Germany, before the Fall of the Wall to a military family. As is the custom in all military families, he moved everywhere. Texas, West Virginia, back to Germany- When dad skipped out of the military after a family tragedy, he ended up in Wyoming for half of his growing years. Then after dragging a baritone home to the trailer park behind a future McDonald's that would be there years later, he learned of a city called "Las Vegas."
Plunged into a Pepto pink house in the center of hell, he was consigned to be drug to his Spiritual home, All Saints' Episcopal church. "Make friends!" they said. "You'll like it!" they said. Begrudgingly, I have to tell you that he did make friends, and he did like it. He would even hang out in the parking lot with his friends when he had to drag his tuba to Twin Lake Elementary down the road. He'd brag that it was his church. Six schools and a diploma later, Karl (Better known now as "Guss") got busy with making kids, and his son, Karl Edmund Gustafson V, was born at UMC and christened at All Saints by the Original Priest in the family, with his grandpa, The Deek, looking on.
For a career, Guss cooked, and other things, because cooks don't make enough to live any sort of real life. He has a broad view of life and living due to his experiences. He has served as the Clerk for the Vestry at All Saints for several years. He is also the Leader of the Pastoral Care Team, and the Social Media Ministry ( so the service streams are his fault) feel free to send blame, questions, comments, and condemnations to his email: technominister@allsaintslv.com
Education
Graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Cheyenne High School
Attended CCSN, Culinary Arts/Restaurant management major,
has taken MOOC classes from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge College, Liberty University, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Saylor Foundation, and Stanford ( Doesn't mean a thing because they do not come with a piece of paper with an embossed seal)
Fun Facts
Favorite Food: Spicy. Seriously, though. Spicy.
Hobbies: Cooking, Computers, TTRPGs, Gaming, Streaming, Camping, primitive hunting, desert bushcraft, music. Ask his mom what instrument he plays; her response is "yes." If you could be any fictional character, who would it be? Han Fricking Solo- I shot first, people... What is your favorite attribute of God? The sense of humor. I mean, have you seen an avocado?
What is your favorite Bible verse or saying? I am giving you two.
1. Matthew 6:5-6 "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
2.From the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: "Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
About Our Vestry
All Saints has a wonderful group of leaders that form what is called the vestry. The Vestry is the legal representative of the parish. Vestry members are elected by the members of the church. The presiding officer of the vestry is the rector. There are two wardens. The senior warden leads the parish between rectors and is a support person for the rector. The junior warden also assists the Rector and Senior Warden. The vestry helps define and carry out the mission of the congregation–by word and deed. They also select the rector, ensure effective organization and planning, and manage resources and finances.
The term vestry originated in Great Britain and referred to the room next to the name of the church where the sacred vessels and vestments were kept. Those conducting parish business met in this room and came to be known as the vestry. The work of the Vestry is done in partnership with the Rector. The Vestry and Rector are to co-create a vision for All Saints that is a response to God’s call and a plan to carry out that vision. The Vestry is a leadership team both in material matters of the Church and in spiritual matters. The executive committee of the vestry is made up of the two wardens, the treasurer and the rector. The principle behind this, as well as the whole structure of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, is one of ordered and diffused authority.
According to the Canon Law the vestry’s responsibilities are:
- to share with the Rector in promoting the spiritual welfare of the parish.
- to aid the Rector in the institution, conduct, and development of the program of the Church both within and without the Parish.
- to be an agent and legal representative in all matters concerning property: maintain the buildings and furnishings, maintain other property (rectory, parking lot, grounds, etc.), provide adequate insurance,
- to be responsible for the finances of the parish, raising money, prompt payment of salaries and bills, prudent care of trust funds, endowments and bequests, sale and transfer of securities and other assets, maintain records, annual report, budget (approve expenditures and recommend and approve salaries)
- to recruit, encourage, train, and guide candidates for Holy Orders
- to represent the parish in its relations with the Rector
- to elect a Rector if there is a vacancy
To serve on the Vestry in the Episcopal Church, one must:
- be 16 years of age or older
- be an active communicant of the parish for at least 6 months
- be a pledging member of the parish
- be confirmed or received in the Episcopal Church
- participates in the Eucharist every Sunday “unless for good cause prevented.”