[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12649]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   INTRODUCING THE REVEREND MARK TESLIK OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, GUEST 
                                CHAPLAIN

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure that the House has had 
its invocation given by the Reverend Mark Teslik of Rockford, Illinois. 
He is here with his wife, Annette, and son Tom, who are in the gallery 
just in front of me.
  Mark was an Eagle Scout. He was an outstanding ROTC Cadet in 
Jefferson High School in Rockford, Illinois. He is a Ripon College 1976 
graduate, with additional studies at Northern Illinois University in 
Dekalb.
  Mark served with the Third Armor in Germany and was a Second 
Lieutenant in the Signal Corps. He is a graduate of the Airborne School 
in Fort Benning, Georgia. He is a graduate of Lutheran Northwestern 
Theological Seminary in St. Paul.
  Mark underwent clinical pastoral training with residency at Alexian 
Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and was 
ordained in 1984.
  Mr. Speaker, he is the pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in East 
Moline, Illinois, and chairman of the World Hunger Appeal Committee of 
the Northern Illinois Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of 
America.
  Mr. Speaker, we are honored today to have in our presence the 
Reverend Mark Teslik and we have been honored with his prayer for our 
country.

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