Convention Workbook

Who’s Who Candidate Profiles
Constitution Committee, Ordained
Craig Donofrio
Home Congregation: Mr. Olive Lutheran, Pasadena, CA
Occupation: Pastor
Experience Pertinent to Position: Pastor; held various District posts in the New England District;
LWML Zone Advisor; Executive Director So Orange County Outreach; Board of Directors for a
large drug & alcohol treatment center; ordained in the LCMS for 13 years.
My Vision for the ministry of the PSW: I encourage all of our churches and pastors in the Pacific
Southwest District, and the LC-MS as a whole to focus more and more on the astonishing love and
mercy that we have been given in Christ Jesus. I encourage our churches and pastors to bear each
other's burdens in brotherly love and encouragement to the glory of Christ until He returns. Let us
set aside all that hinders, all pettiness and selfishness that distracts us from the work of Christ and
His grace for all sinners. May we be of a single mind and that being proclaiming Christ to all of
creation in thought, Word and deed.
James K. Pflueger
Home Congregation:
Occupation: Emeritus
Experience Pertinent to Position: Served in parishes in White and Aurora, South
Dakota, Lansing, Michigan; Brookfield, Wisconsin; Cerritos, California; part time
at Risen Savior Chandler AZ. South Wisconsin District Worship Committee
1996-1999 Chair of Mission Committee of Pacific Southwest District 2003-2009
My Vision for the ministry of the PSD: That the District continue to faithfully proclaim the
gospel while finding ways to be relational in the culture around us. And, that we find new ways to
reach the unchurhed of the Southwest in diverse settings in a new economy and changing
circumstances of our world and nation.
Samuel Paul Schuldheisz
Home Congregation: Redeemer Lutheran, Huntington Beach, CA
Occupation: Pastor
Experience Pertinent to Position: Organizing and coordinating both clergy and
laity working together on the 5th Annual Catechism Convocation of Southern
California.
My Vision for the ministry of the PSW: That through their respective
vocations, both the Pastors and Laity of the PSW would work boldly to declare, defend and confess
the faith once and for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3), to foster a thriving Lutheran ethos among
our churches by means of the historic Christian faith and the rich liturgical heritage of the Church
that through clear witness and caring service we might teach the faithful, reach the lost and care for
all.
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