[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WELCOMING REV. KURT GERHARD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Burgess) is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and thank Father Kurt 
Gerhard of Washington, DC, for serving as the guest chaplain today for 
the House of Representatives.
  In April of this year, Father Gerhard was installed as the eighth 
rector of St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, which is located in northwest 
Washington, DC, on Whitehaven Parkway. He recently relocated from my 
home State of Texas, where he served as senior chaplain at St. Andrew's 
Episcopal School and in the clergy at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 
both located in Austin, Texas.
  Father Gerhard is a native of Nebraska, where he earned a degree from 
the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He went on to earn a Master of 
Divinity from the Seminary of the Southwest and a Doctor of Ministry 
from the Virginia Theological Seminary.
  On behalf of every Member of the House of Representatives of the 
United States Congress, I want to thank Father Gerhard for his work on 
behalf of our community here in Washington, DC, and for his invocation 
before our House here today.

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