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Joan Schlichter
Kirkwood, MO
Mid South St. Louis Chapter
 Joan is an integral member of the Mid South St. Louis Chapter and has excelled in her position as congregational service team director by creating themed coordinator training events and leading her coordinators to success. In less than a week, Joan was able to achieve what many tried for years—recruiting six coordinators for two churches that previously had said no members were interested. Any coordinator vacancies have been short-lived due to Joan’s dedication in visiting churches to get them involved. She has also encouraged youth and adults to work together in her chapter, and she has worked with the youth directors to get their groups involved in hands-on service activities.
Joan also epitomizes a “volunteer heart” in her congregation, Glendale Lutheran Church in Glendale, where she serves on the Worship Planning and Worship Ministry committees and has been involved with Sunday school. She also tends the church’s grounds, trimming bushes, planting, and weeding. Using Care in Congregations® program funding last year, she and her congregational service team worked for three days to fill cracks in the church parking lot. Joan participates in the voice choir and the hand bell choir, and formed a group that performs on dulcimer and guitar that fellow church-goers lovingly refer to as “Joan’s group.” She is proud to be a part of “The Twilight Singers,” a group of women aged 59 to 90 that performs about 80 times a year at local nursing homes and church groups.
She also volunteers with OASIS, a local organization that specializes in intergenerational tutoring. As president of the West St. Louis Zone of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, Joan leads her group in their mission work and motivates other members. This summer, she will serve as a delegate at the LWML convention. Joan is also a member of the Concordia Seminary Guild, the Lutheran Convalescent Home Auxiliary, and is the coordinator for the Rockwood Gem and Mineral Society, where she and her husband give talks to school children about their hobby as “rock hounds.” She is a member of the Kirkwood Historical Society and serves as a docent at “Mudds Grove,” a Kirkwood Historical House.
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