THE SOLEMN RITE OF ORDINATION is the Church’s way of setting individuals aside for public ministry of Word and Sacrament. Invoking the Holy Spirit to be with the Ordinand and with the Church, the individual is set apart for this particular form of servanthood within the Church.

Ordination does not depend so much on a person seeking the office as it does the office seeking the person. This, in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, ordination comes about only after a long process of learning and evaluation. In Greg’s case, this involved...

Once all of these requirements have been fulfilled, the President of the district in which the calling congregation is located authorizes the Ordination.

We are grateful today for the authorization granted by The Rev. Dr. Gerhard C. Michael, Jr., President of the Florida-Georgia District, LC-MS, to Pastor Karl J. Dunker for doing the Ordination and Installation.

We ask the continued presence and power of the Spirit of the Living God upon Greg’s ministry here at Our Redeemer!

Rev. Karl J. Dunker, Pastor of Our Redeemer was the Presiding Minister.

Rev. David C. Sieg, Pastor of Savior of All Lutheran Church, Cartersville, Georgia was the Lector for the Service.

Rev. Ron Schornhorst, Pastor of Lake Oconee Lutheran Church, Eatonton, Georgia was the Assisting Pastor in the Ordination and Installation.

Also assisting in the Ordination and Installation with prayer and the laying on of hands were Clergy from the East Central Georgia Circuit.

Signing the Service was Rev. Phillip Michael McDonald, Pastor of Chapel for the Deaf, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ms. Ruth Brannen, Director of Fine Arts Ministry of Our Redeemer, was the Organist and also wrote The Gospel Processional/Recessional.

Gregory Paul Hollis was born October 29, 1950, in Saint Louis, Missouri, to P. Edwin Hollis and his wife, Velma Letitia (neè) Stiller. He was baptized in 1950 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Saint Louis. He and Jeanie were married at Saint Stephens Lutheran Church in Atkins, Iowa on December 20, 1975. They have three children and two grandchildren. Eric G. Hollis lives in Buford, Georgia, Heather Jean Edwards and her husband, Bryan, live in Colorado Springs with their sons, Kyle and Jacob. Melinda Arlene Hollis is in graduate school and lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Gregory received his B.A. from Saint Louis University in 1972, his M.S. from Troy State University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from United States International University in 1980. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology in 1989.

Gregory was confirmed according to the Lutheran tradition in 1978. He served twenty years in the United States Armed Forces (Air Force and Army) and retired from the Army in 1995. He started his private practice here in Augusta.

Gregory and Jeanie joined Our Redeemer Lutheran Church on May 27, 1995. In response to the Lord’s call into parish ministry, he entered into the Distance Education Leading To Ordination (DELTO) program offered through Concordia Theological Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri. During the six years of DELTO, Gregory served as Vicar at Our Redeemer in Augusta.

Gregory completed his seminary training in December 2004. He has since accepted the Call to serve as Associate Pastor of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Augusta, Georgia.