WAFER and The New Building

This program will focus on the new building WAFER is moving into, along with the increased outreach to the food insecure. It is timely because of the gathering of food items which has been at the heart of our combined Rotary Lights annual event.s

Mark Solyst served as pastor in the Lutheran Church for 46 years. Retiring in 2020, he served the last 21 years of his ministry as pastor of English Lutheran Church in La Crosse. He grew up in Kerkhoven, Minnesota, a beautiful, small community in Western Minnesota and attended Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota where he majored in physics. Graduate education included Luther Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary where he earned a M.Div., M.Th., and D.Min. In 1978, Mark married Carol, who is an art director, and they have three grown children.