Staff
Pastor Willie Rosin
Siblings in Christ at Zion Lutheran Church – greetings in the name of our crucified and risen Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ! My name is Pastor Willie Rosin and I am excited to serve in God’s ministry with the people of Zion Lutheran Church.
I am a native South Dakotan who relocated to Iowa when I married Jennifer Rosin in July of 2002. I love to hunt, fish, garden, read, bake, spend time with our family, and make music. I met Jennifer in the music department at South Dakota State University and we both graduated with our Bachelor of Music Education degrees in 2002. Since then, Jennifer has been teaching band in various districts and I entered the candidacy process to become an ELCA pastor after a year of teaching 5-12 band and I graduated from Wartburg Theological Seminary in May of 2010. In the time between teaching and seminary I worked with a farm drainage and tile company as the office manager, ditch digger, and machine operator and then spent a year as a church administrator at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hampton, Iowa.
I served my First Call from 2010-2015 with two congregations in the Montevideo, Minnesota area. In July I accepted a call to serve with First Lutheran Church Britt, Iowa. In June of 2021 we moved to Muscatine after the school district offered Jennifer her dream job – teaching junior high band at Susan Clark Junior High.
I started my fourth year serving with Zion on December 12, 2024 and I look forward to the year ahead. I had another successful year of gardening and have over 800 cloves of garlic in the ground for the 2025 garden. I enjoyed fishing the Mississippi River and we’ve had successful deer hunting this year as well. I enjoyed getting the jazz combo back together for the Swing Dance back in March and we have been asked to play again for the Swing Dance on March 8, 2025.
For continuing education I completed the Leadership Muscatine program back in May and started another 9 month program as a member of the first cohort of the Iowa Preacher’s Project through Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. I hope to continue to grow as a preacher and leader through this program. We kicked off the year back in September with a few days of in-person learning and formation. We have since continued meeting digitally through Zoom and will have our next in-person session January 19-22, 2025 in Costa del Mar, California.
Jennifer continues to teach kids to love music through her work at the Susan Clark Junior High in Muscatine. The 7th and 8th grade bands continue to grow and succeed and she has the largest jazz band you’ve ever seen! She loves being a mom to our five kids, helping them learn to read, cook, quilt, craft, and have fun. She recently completed the last of the five full-size quilts for the kids, a beautiful design for Ezra with a large cross in the center – his favorite! She also enjoys helping lead worship at Zion from the organ and piano benches. I am thankful for her patience and her love for me, our kids, and her students!
Grace is 21 years old and in her final on-campus semester at University of Northern Iowa. She studies bassoon as a non-music major, performing with the UNI bands. She will walk for graduation in May, but still has a semester of student teaching. She will graduate with a degree in special education as a Instructional Strategist II, which is working with students who have a higher level of special needs in the classroom. This past summer she adopted Frida, a friendly mixed breed dog, from It Takes a Village here in Muscatine. She continues to enjoy fishing and deer hunting and killed a trophy whitetail buck on New Year’s Day! She is a fantastic older sister to the three younger kids and we are excited that she has been assigned to the Muscatine area for student teaching in fall of 2025 and she plans to live at home with us during student teaching!
Isabelle is 19 and in her second year at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is studying a dual major of music education and music performance on her beloved French Horn. She moved off campus this year and is learning to navigate the adult life and independent living. In summer of 2025 she plans to work at Outlaw Ranch near Custer, South Dakota. Outlaw Ranch is one of the camps in the Lutherans Outdoors in South Dakota system, which is the camping ministry of the South Dakota Synod, ELCA. We will get to see her when we go to Outlaw Ranch for Family Camp and continuing education in late July!
Lydia is a fourth grader at Mulberry Elementary in Muscatine. She loves all things crafting and is a voracious reader.
Abner is a first grader at Mulberry Elementary and loves all things outdoors and his toy cars and remote control trucks. He is starting to read and write independently, which opens up a whole new world of learning and imagination for him. He has been out deer hunting with us this year and was along with me when I filled my deer tag and has claimed it as “his” deer. He is excited to keep growing bigger and stronger so that he can start hunting with dad and Grace!
Ezra is also in first grade at Mulberry Elementary and loves going to school to see Mrs. Smith! He is just starting to read and write on his own. Ezra loves all things music – especially anything in a minor key. He is an energetic and active young man and LOVES coming to worship and being at church. He gets very excited about seeing crosses and listening to Jesus stories as he learns the stories of faith. He enjoys helping cook some of his breakfast favorites with me in the morning before school.
We are so thankful that we landed in Muscatine and love this community and the people. I pray that 2025 brings new and wonderful surprises as we continue to call this lovely community home.
I love finding out what God has in store for us as we serve in ministry together here at Zion Lutheran Church! Thank you for serving in God’s kingdom and I am excited to serve with you!
Peace in Christ,
Pastor Willie Rosin
Sheryl Mercer
Office Assistant
Sheryl is always quick with a smile and loves to laugh. She wears a lot of “hats” and is more than an office assistant. She enjoys crafting and being around animals. Sheryl loves helping around Zion.
Jennifer Rosin
Organist/Pianist
Jennifer loves quilting and baking. Her family is her favorite thing in the world. She believes dogs make the world a better place!
Steve Fifield
Custodian & Maintenance
Steve likes to fish, take long walks on the beach and spend time with his wife Ronda at their pool and back deck. Steve is quick to lend a helping hand and is invaluable at the church.
Sue Robinson
Director of Music Ministries
Music in Zion’s worship services has strengthened Sue’s faith journey from early childhood and continues to this day. As the Director of Music, she selects the anthems, rehearses and prepares Zion’s choir for the worship services. Through God’s gift of music, we share our faith with each other and with our Zion Lutheran family.
Stacey Ramos
Youth Ministry Specialist
Stacey oversees many of our youth ministries, including confirmation, youth education, youth trips and youth fundraisers. She was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa and grew up at Zion Lutheran Church in Clinton, Iowa. In 1993, Stacey moved to Muscatine and joined our community of faith. Stacey works with youth in many ways: daycare provider, VBS and Sunday school teacher, youth committee member, and a para-educator for the school system. The youth are our future, and she enjoys working with them and watching them grow! Stacey lives outside of Muscatine with her husband Rosendo Ramos. She has four beautiful children: Jason, Justin, Jacob and his wife Kelsie, and Katie. She loves being a grandmother! Contact Stacey at staceyjeanramos@gmail.com.
Charles Potter
Organist/Bell Choir Director
As one of Zion’s organists, my task is to help lead the congregation’s musical worship in singing hymns and liturgy and by providing prelude and postlude music appropriate for the themes of the day and the season.
As Zion’s Bell Choir director, my task is to do the best I know how to do to help the bell players do the best they can do.
Denise Dunnahoo Bulcke
Office Administrator
Denise is the newest staff member. While new to the church, Denise is not new to the area. Denise and her husband Dave (from Belgium), look forward to meeting new people and sharing a laugh with new friends.
Bob Danner
Organist/Pianist
Bob Danner is the musician for the Sunday night service. He is a retired music teacher from both West and Central Middle Schools. He especially likes playing for musicals as well as playing the liturgy for the more contemporary Sunday night service.
