{"id":11084,"date":"2022-01-11T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:34:52","slug":"rev-sam-prellwitz-10-to-lead-ripon-community-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2022\/01\/11\/rev-sam-prellwitz-10-to-lead-ripon-community-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Sam Prellwitz \u201910 to lead Ripon Community Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/1579535368089.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/1579535368089.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11085\" width=\"165\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/1579535368089.jpg 522w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/1579535368089-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sam Prellwitz \u201910<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rev. Sam Prellwitz \u201910, who has served as a pastor at Ripon Community Church (RCC) in Ripon, Wisconsin, for the last 12 years, will give his first sermon as lead pastor on January 16, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prellwitz will be replacing The Rev. Mike Holba, who founded RCC. Over the last 20 years, RCC has become a fixture in the community by spreading the teachings of Jesus Christ, providing services for those in need and launching community staples such as Mugs Coffeehouse and Traded Treasures &amp; Community Food Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMike\u2019s got big shoes to fill, but he\u2019s never made me feel like I should fill those shoes,\u201d Prellwitz said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riponpress.com\/news\/ripon-community-church-soon-will-be-under-new-leadership\/article_b148dd7e-6e61-11ec-8d8f-8740cc8921b7.html#:~:text=The%20Rev.%20Mike%20Holba%20%E2%80%94%20who,his%2020%20years%20of%20leadership\">article by the Ripon Press<\/a>. \u201cHe feels that I can lead how I think God wants me to lead. I\u2019m going to try and do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prellwitz, a Ripon native, has been connected to the RCC since 2008, when he was part of the student ministry at Wabash College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riponpress.com\/news\/ripon-community-church-soon-will-be-under-new-leadership\/article_b148dd7e-6e61-11ec-8d8f-8740cc8921b7.html#:~:text=The%20Rev.%20Mike%20Holba%20%E2%80%94%20who,his%2020%20years%20of%20leadership\">You can read more of Prellwitz\u2019s story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Wabash, Prellwitz majored in rhetoric and minored in religion. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, German Club, Student Senate, and ran cross-country.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Sam Prellwitz \u201910, who has served as a pastor at Ripon Community Church (RCC) in Ripon, Wisconsin, for the last 12 years, will give his first sermon as lead pastor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/1579535368089.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11088,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}