Friends and Neighbors: Roger Gillming

Roger Gillming is a nonconformist when it comes to his role as retired after spending a total of forty years in homiletics, the study of composing and delivering a sermon, and helping with the American Red Cross.

Once serving as the pastor for both Methodist churches, here and in Bushnell for more than a decade, Gillming thought he would like to have more free time with his wife, Schatzie, and their two grandsons, Aaron and Kip, who live in close proximity to the couple.

Real retirement didn't last long, according to Gillming, who shared that he was approached be a pastor by a small church in...