Priscilla
Schlenker
Kinney
Vice President,
2001-2009
Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod

Priscilla Schlenker Kinney, former vice president of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, died on Thursday, April 15, 2010. She was 67 years old.

Priscilla was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. Over the last twenty-two years she experienced several relapses and underwent a number of surgeries and treatments.

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The daughter of the Rev. Luther F. and Elizabeth Schlenker, and the wife of the Rev. George G. Kinney, Priscilla found countless ways to serve in a church that had not yet opened doors to women of her generation. In 1963 she was a delegate to the Lutheran World Federation student assembly in Helsinki, Finland. Her volunteer and community services ranged from organizing a nursery school at St. John, Jersey City NJ to serving as associate director of community ministries of Community of Hope in Atlanta GA to being a member of the Board of Education of Plymouth CT. Professionally, she worked for many years for social ministry organizations. She was director of admissions and social services for the Lutheran Home in Worcester MA, and director of volunteer services and then director of residential services for the Lutheran Home at Topton.

In the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, she served on the social ministry team, stewardship committee, synod council, and strategic planning task force, and as a member of the board of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. In 2001 she was elected vice president of the synod, an office she held until 2009.

Priscilla is survived by her husband, the Rev. George Kinney, Fleetwood PA, and by two daughters, Anne and Katherine.

Services were held on Monday, April 19, in the Egner Chapel of Muhlenberg College.

Memorial Contributions

Memorial contributions may be made in Priscilla’s name to the Priscilla Schlenker Kinney Scholarship Fund of Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104, or the Priscilla Schlenker Kinney Scholarship Fund (to give online, select that fund in the drop-down list under "Other"), The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 7301 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19119.

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