Robert Buechler:
CLASS OF 1986
Jupiter High SchoolClass of 1986
Jupiter, FL
Robert's Story
After Jupiter I went to the University of Wyoming. Receive a BA in History. Went to Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH.
I was sent to an internship in North Dakota where I met my wife, Debbie. We married after my graduation from Seminary and have been husband and wife for fourteen years this June 24th (2008).
We have four children actually. Our first born, Benjamin died when he was 21/2 months old from SIDS. Our next two died in miscarriages. Then the Lord blessed us with our last child, Rachael. She was born Feb. 27th of 2001. She is seven now and a blessing. She is a runner...and as a forty year old I have a tough time keeping up with her and her friends.
I have been pastoring in three congregations and a nursing home for fourteen years. Loving it.
Peace in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Rob Buechler
A P.S. from Debbie Buechler:
Rob just showed me this site tonight. I think it is a very good way to get caught up in what everyone is doing.
As I read his profile I noticed that he left out quite a few things. I don't know how he was in high school but right now I would say he is a big kid who likes to have fun. Everyone always is saying that I don't have one kid I have two and I think they are right. Even before we had children that is what the people thought of him. This is one of the many reasons that I think people here like him. They see how comfortable their kids are around him and have seen when they(their kids) do have problems they feel comfortable enough to go to him for advice. I remember one time when I came home from work I was met by a bunch of kids wanting to know if Pastor Rob could come out to play. I said I don't know maybe you should go ask Pastor Rob.
As he did tell you we live in North Dakota and some winters we get a lot of snow. The first year he was the pastor here people were always talking about how he went into the ditch. He did everything from following snowmobile tracks into the ditch ( he thought that there was a road there) to doing two 360's, missing two poles with handicapped signs on them and ending up parking right beside a brand new car with the owner of the new car watching him out the window. As of today he has never put a scratch on his or anyone elses car. All I can say he must have someone watching out for him because he has needed it. The first year it seemed like he was always having someone pulling his car out of the ditch. People were always teasing him about it but he didn't mind. I have to admit he hasn't been in the ditch for a long time now so I think he has finally learned that you can't drive here like you do where he grew up.
I don't know how many jokes or pranks he played on people in highschool but trust me people here love to play them on him, including myself and he doesn't get mad. I won't bore you with all of them but the one I like the best is how he thought he was having a tupperware party and he really wasn't.
This is how it started he had made me mad about something and I honestly couldn't tell you what it was now. I just remember telling him before I left for work that day that I was going to have a party of some sort and I was going to have it on superbowl Sunday and he would be required to attend. Then I left for work. Needless to say I just happen to get a invitation to a tupperware party that day. This made him nervous. I went to the party and like always they ask if anyone was interested in having a party. Needless to say I wasn't interested at all in having one but two moms from the youth group of one of Robs churchs were and thought that it would be a great fundraiser so they signed up to do it. When I came home he said to me "well what time is your party." All I said is I'm not having one but you are and went upstairs. This really confused him. He then went to deliver some confirmation books to a kid that didn't attend confirmation that week and that mother told him that he was having a tupperware party. Before I knew it everyone was telling him that and he actually believed it and I just went along with the story.
You could tell that he was starting to worry and everyone was laughing about it behind his back. He even questioned me about it saying that if it was youth group having the party then it was them not him having the party. The reply I gave him was you are part of the youth group are you not. When he said yes I then said well then you are having the party and I went about what I was doing. About a week later he questioned me again saying that it didn't make sense. He asked me why the party was going to be at our house if it...Expand for more
was for the youth group. I told him that he should consider himself lucky. The youth group split up the work some people had to invite the people, others had to bring the food and all he had to do was furnish the house so he had it made. Needless to say he fell for it hook, line and sinker.
This went on for about a couple of months if you can believe it and he was really begin to get on my nerves. I would catch him inviting people and I would have to call them up and tell them that there was no party on superbowl sunday and that it was a month later.
Superbowl Sunday arrived and he still hadn't figured it out and he was still inviting people, he even made an announcement in church inviting people. Needless to say I hurried home that Sunday and called the church where he had his second service. I told the lady that answered the phone that no matter what Rob said that day there was no tupperware party in the town of Starkweather that day but to just go along with it. She told me "I can't lie to Pastor Rob!!!" I reminded her that it was a joke but when I hung up I still didn't know if she would tell him or not so I hurried and made some brownies incase I would get a house of company. Small towns here really support one another in things like this. I didn't need to worry though because when Rob came home that that day he told me that the lady that I had spoke to was bringing brownies.
I thought it was bad before but it just got worse as he kept pacing the floor wondering where the tupperware lady was and why wasn't she there setting things up. Thank goodness his mom called and kept him on the phone for a while. Finally the time came and three people who I knew were coming showed up. We basically sat around my kitchen table eating the brownies that I had just made and then Rob started digging out my tupperware giving his own demonstration since the tupperware lady wasn't there to do it.
We couldn't believe that he still hadn't figured it out. He ran upstairs for something and they wondered what they were going to do because they had superbowl parties to go to themselves. That is when one of them grabbed my phone and made it ring somehow and carried on a conversation with no one as Rob came back into the room. She hung up and told us that we had to postpone the party because the tupperware lady was stuck up in a ditch in Langdon, a town 50 miles from here. Everyone left then but they told me that I would have to tell him the truth because he still hadn't figured it out. I said I would and starting cleaning up. As I was doing the dishes I remember Rob coming over and saying to me that he was sorry that my party didn't work out. I then told him that that there wasn't a party. He then said I know her car is stuck in a ditch in Langdon. I repeated "No Rob there was no party." I think I had to say it a few times before it sunk in. He finally replied "You mean there never was suppose to be a party" I said yes that is right. The youth group party is actually next month. He couldn't believe it. I mean how could two towns keep him going for that long.
I think everyone will alway remember Rob's wonderful tupperware party that never happened and how everyone in two towns got him. When I think about it this is just one of the many tricks they have played on him.
Even though they( the people in these towns) have played tricks on him they have also given him a lot of support when he needed it, especially when our son Benjamin passed away. I have also lived in large towns such as Everett, Wa and I find that people in small towns seem to support and actually care about each other more then then do in larger towns but I think it is just because everyone just knows everyone better. I admit this is good sometimes and bad sometimes because it also means that everyone knows what everyone else is doing. It also means that you have to plan ahead because for example to go to a grocery store you have to drive a half hour one way which gets to be a nusience. Most small towns have at least a gas station that you can go pick up a carton of milk but Starkweather is not one of those all we have are our neighbors. We are lucky though that we still have our school which is nice.
Well I will let you go because I have either bored you to death or you are laughing saying I can't believe anyone would fall for that. If you want any more true stories I will be glad to give them to you. Like I said before Rob doesn't get upset with the things like this they pull on them he just gets upset that they think of doing it before he does.
Debbie
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