PASTOR KARI RINAS
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pastor Kari Rinas was called to St. Thomas in October of 2022. She lives in Brownstown Township with her husband, Pastor Joshua Rinas and two young children.
 
Kari is welcome wherever she goes with her bubbly personality and ability to relate to all people. If you haven’t met her, you should.
 
You may call on her at her office or email her anytime at pastor@stthomasgi.com
 
 
 
 
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR: OPEN
 
 
 

TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA: Betty Ruck

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Betty is responsible for producing weekly service media, building and maintaining the website, producing sermon and other videos,  producing advertising media, photographing special events and maintaining the online church directory. She also manages the tech booth where she trains students to edit and run MediaShout, run a 24 channel digital soundboard mixer with wireless mics. and videotape sermons. 

Betty earned her BSEd from Ohio State and recently retired from teaching science at Brownstown Middle School. She lives on Grosse Ile with her husband George.

MUSIC DIRECTOR: Karen Skrocki

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Karen selects music, plays piano and manages the music praise team. She plays violin with a group she started “Picks and Bow” which plays Irish folk music in local venues. Karen is also a piano and violin teacher. Al, her husband, is retired former Chief of Grosse Ile Police Department.
 
 

MUSIC DIRECTOR: Jeff Kline:

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Jeff plays piano and sings for our worship services. He is retired from Taylor schools where he worked as a paraprofessional.

Jeff lives on Grosse Ile with his wife Kathie.

DIR. OF HOSPITALITY: Linda Landis

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Linda manages the building use, rental, cleaning, and maintenance as well as hostessing special events.

She is retired from the Grosse Ile post office and lives in Gibralter with her husband John.