Rebecca J. Hostetler

Second career pastor; small town public librarian prior to entering seminary in 1979. Became Lutheran as an adult in the American Lutheran Church.

Ordained November 23, 1986. Resigned from the ELCA clergy roster on Reformation Day, October 31, 1995. To stay in ordained ministry and to live two lives, leaving part of myself outside the church door, became unhealthy for me; I needed to reign to integrate all of me.

Most of my ministry was spent as an Intentional Interim Pastor serving congregations in crisis.

Originally a part of the collection of stoles housed by ReconcilingWorks (formerly known as Lutherans Concerned), this stole was donated by them to the Shower of Stoles Project in 2015.