In worship on Sunday, July 20, 2025, Pastor Grant offered member Konnor Krambeer a special blessing as he departs for 20 weeks of training at the Iowa Department of Public Safety Basic Training Academy in Johnston. Upon graduation, Konnor will serve as a state trooper based in Chickasaw County. In May he graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, where he earned his degree in criminal justice and played defensive back on the Kohawks football team. Konnor is the son of members Brad and Becky Krambeer and grandson of members Ken and Gloria Krambeer.
Protector God, your saints have long cleared your premises of its undesirables, so please look kindly upon all those who protect and serve.
As your child Konnor leaves this place to be trained in the work you now call him to do, give him a cool head, a stout heart, an uncanny flair for investigation, and wise judgment. Make him the terror of burglars, a friend of widows and children; enable Konnor to be kind to strangers, polite to bores, and impervious to temptation. In troubles and riots, give him sheer muscle without temper; give him love for truth and evidence without thought of self.
Stir within Konnor’s heart and mind not only loyalty to the law of the land but also loyalty to your statutes to love and serve friend, neighbor, and stranger, as you have taught him here in this place. Thus we pray with St. Francis –
Empower Konnor to be an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred let him bring your love.
Where there is sadness let him bring joy.
Where there is darkness let him bring light.
May he seek not just to be consoled but to console;
to be understood in equal measure to his understanding;
not just to be loved but to love.
Amen, and amen.