The staff of Mountain View Lutheran Church is committed to bringing excellence in all that they do to help support and further the vision, mission, and ministry of the congregation.
PASTORAL STAFF
LEAD PASTOR Eric Bostrom • ebostrom@mtviewlutheran.org
► Pastor Eric has served as an ordained pastor since 2003. He attended Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Nebraska where he met his wife Rhonda, who is also an ordained pastor. After getting married in 1997, Eric and Rhonda headed off to Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. For two years, Eric and Rhonda both served as interns at Abiding Hope Lutheran Church in Littleton, Colorado under the supervision of Rev. Dr. Rick Barger. Eric and Rhonda served a three-point congregation around Ceresco, Nebraska as their first call. In 2004, they welcomed their daughter, Annika, and in 2006 they welcomed their son, Soren, into their family. Being a father is the hardest work he has ever loved. In 2007, their family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and Pastor Eric served three calls as campus pastor, interim pastor, and pastor for pastoral care and adult faith formation. In 2010, Pastor Eric completed Seeking the Spirit Within, a two year faith formation process to become a certified spiritual director.
Pastor Eric felt called to Mountain View for their theological and biblical curiosity, diverse expression of music and worship, heart for reaching out in the community, and excitement to grow as disciples in everyday life. He brings gifts of preaching, teaching, listening, authenticity, leadership, and culture creation.
Pastor Eric has discovered that running is the best way for him to care for his body, mind, heart, and soul. He’s kind of a Bible nerd so he enjoys long theological/biblical conversations with anyone over coffee in the morning and over beer in the evening. He’s passionate about being a good steward of God’s creation and if you get him talking about electric vehicles, he won’t shut up. He loves the outdoors and looks forward to exploring the outdoor wonderland of the Pacific Northwest.
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PROGRAM STAFF
DIRECTOR of MUSIC Amy Boers • aboers@mtviewlutheran.org
► Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician.
As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist) and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor). Her work at Pacific Lutheran University is varied between accompanying the acclaimed Choir of the West, accompanying and coaching private voice students, team-teaching numerous theater classes, and most recently she was named Music Director for productions in PLU’s Theater & Dance program, including Amélie, music revues Off Broadway, and When You Wish Upon a Star, and Jasper in Deadland.
Amy is frequently asked to collaborate and perform with world-renown conductors and elite ensembles at NWACDA, Washington ACDA, NAfME, and WMEA conventions. Recent notable collaborations have been with Jason Max Ferdinand, Brian Edward Galante, Jace Saplan, Jonathan Talberg and Rosephanye Powell (Summer 2024).
Amy works as a collaborative pianist with many State Solo & Ensemble winners, both instrumental and vocal. She travels regularly as a collaborative artist with choirs throughout Europe, performing most recently in Portugal, Spain (Symphony Tacoma Voices 2023), Estonia and Latvia (Symphony Tacoma Voices and University of Washington Choirs 2019).
As a conductor, in addition to her music directing, Amy has led regional honor choirs and coached developing choral conductors from across the Western Hemisphere at the annual Cascade Conducting Workshop in Tacoma, WA. As a true collaborative artist known for her deep insight and “getting inside the conductor’s head,” Amy provides feedback through the special lens of accompanist, singer and conductor combined. She has led pedagogical workshops for choral conductors and collaborative artists regionally and in Canada. Her recent session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations.
As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg Fortress (now 1517 Media); served on the Board of Directors of Lutheran Summer Music, the nation’s premier faith-based music academy for high school students; and now acts as an ambassador for the program. Amy has served many congregations since 1995 and is currently serving as Director of Music at Mountain View Lutheran Church in Edgewood.
In addition to her keyboard artistry, she is an active singer both recording commercial music and performing live. She treasures singing with Musing, a beautiful project-based treble ensemble, as well as her vocal collaborations in the studio with local composers and singers. She is currently in the midst of recording vocal tracks for an upcoming album of new arrangements of traditional gospel songs and hymns, as well as new compositions in this genre.
When not making music, she loves to garden, cycle, and travel with her family. Most important to her at this time is spending time with her three beloved grandchildren, Adler, Jack, and Holden.
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SUPPORT STAFF
MINISTRIES COORDINATOR Wendy Wadnizak • wwadnizak@mtviewlutheran.org
► Wendy grew up in the Puyallup area and has been a member at Mountain View Lutheran Church since 2011, after relocating back from Salem, Oregon. Her husband Ben has been a lifelong member at Mountain View, and they were married at MVLC. Wendy has two school-aged children, Brady and Kambria. They were both baptized at MVLC.
She attended college in Salem, Oregon at Western Baptist College (now Corban University), where she obtained a B.S. in Elementary Education. Wendy taught elementary school for seven years before becoming a stay-at-home mother. Wendy has kept herself busy during motherhood by leading a MOPS group, volunteering in various capacities at church, coaching and playing soccer, homeschooling her children for a year during the pandemic, and being a parent helper at her children’s school. She now re-enters the workforce after almost 15 years of being a stay-at-home mom.
Wendy and her family recently lived for a year in the beautiful country of New Zealand. Her family has returned to the area to be near family and friends.
For fun, Wendy enjoys watching and playing soccer, sleeping in, taking naps, listening to her children talk about video games that she knows nothing about, and spending time with her family. She is excited to be back at MVLC and serving in the role of Ministries Coordinator.
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COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Troy Kehm-Goins • tkehm-goins@mtviewlutheran.org
► Troy has been a member of Mountain View Lutheran Church, along with his wife Carianne, for more than 26 years. They were married at MVLC. Their daughter Kyra was baptized and raised at MVLC and is now in college.
Troy graduated from University of Washington Tacoma with a BA in Liberal Studies and previously worked in the book industry for sixteen years. He has served on staff in various roles—Small Group Ministry Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, and now Communications Director—as well as taught high school Sunday school for a number of years.
Troy is an avid reader; writes poetry; and enjoys sidewalk chalk art, gardening, and day hiking. His favorite novel is Moby-Dick, his favorite animal is the North Pacific giant octopus, and his favorite prophet is Elijah.
He is a practitioner of two martial arts—qigong (Chinese body movements) and iaido (Japanese sword drawing).
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CUSTODIAN Yelena Zhurko
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PROPERTY and OFFICE MANAGER Henry Peck