Allen Deinert:  

Life I have gone from high school, through college at Cal State--Northridge to military service and Vietnam. I have gone from being a salesman and manager for the Broadway Dept. Stores and a utility manager for Jack-in-the Box to being a Probation Officer at LA Central Juvenile Hall to entering the ministry with the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. In 1977 I was ordained as a pastor and married to a girl from Rhode Island. I have served in Aransas Pass, Texas, Goldsboro, NC, Tempe, AZ, Holtville, CA, in Riverside, CA, and in Moreno Valley, CA, where I am now serving as Youth Director. Currently I also substitute teach and am about to begin student teaching through Concordia University--Irvine. My wife is a school nurse for the Corona-Norco School District and got her MSN degree from San Diego State in 2004. My oldest daughter, born in 1980, graduated from the University of Phoenix in May, 2005. She now works as a manager of the Vitamin Shoppe, at the Irvine Spectrum. She is married and the mother of our beautiful granddaughter, Abigail, born June 5, 2004. She is expecting our second granddaughter in early September. My oldest son, born in 1982, graduated from Concordia Univ.--Irvine in 2004. Our second son, born in 1989 on my birthday, is a sophomore at Northern Arizona University, in...Expand for more