2 Epiphany pastors resign; one forms a new ministry
By Jill Kelley, Staff WriterUpdated 11:57 PM Thursday, January 6, 2011
CENTERVILLE — Two Epiphany Lutheran Church pastors, citing a division between their core values and the direction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, resigned this week, and one has started a new ministry.
Senior Pastor John Bradosky has accepted the job of general secretary of the breakaway North American Lutheran Church. Meanwhile, Associate Pastor Todd Kornahrens has started a new ministry in Centerville, the Living Water Lutheran Church.
Living Water will hold its first service at 10:15 a.m. Sunday at Weller Elementary School. It plans to open at 175 E. Franklin St. in February, when that facility is ready.
Kornahrens will be the lead pastor, and the church’s management team is primarily made up of former Epiphany members. Living Water is applying to be recognized as the first NALC congregation in the Dayton area.
The NALC, a more traditionally focused Lutheran denomination, was formed in the wake of the ELCA’s 2009 social statement and policy changes that included the decision to accept noncelibate gay ministers.
The statement proved controversial for many within the Lutheran church who saw it as indicative of the difference of opinion within the ELCA about how Scripture should be interpreted.
