We have to thank Nicholas Eckert and his mother Mary for spending two evenings in the cemetery of First Reformed Church. Their work was part of a program of the Boy Scouts of America in which Nick participated. Together, Nick and Mary pruned the shrubs in the front of the church and weeded the flower beddings in the same location. They also put mulch down around the historic tombstones to prevent weeds from growing. Our Property Committee appreciated in particular that Nick had organized the donation of seven bags of mulch from area hardware stores. It was a project well done.
About Rev. Dr. Hartmut Kramer-Mills
Hartmut Kramer-Mills, a native of Jena, Germany, began his theological education at Heidelberg University. After the Middle Exam in 1986 he received a scholarship from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches for McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He graduated from McCormick with a Master of Divinity in 1988. He graduated from Marburg University in Germany with the Ecclesiastical Exam in 1990, and received a Dr. theol. from Greifswald University, Germany, in 1997.
From 1990 to 1991 he was vicar at St. Wenzel in Naumburg, Germany. He was ordained minister of word and sacrament in 1993 through the Protestant Church of the Church Province of Saxony. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant pastor in Stoessen, Goerschen, and Rathewitz, Germany. At the same time he was lecturer for Church History at Erfurt College in Germany.
From 1999 to 2000 he served the Spotswood Reformed Church in New Jersey as interim pastor. Since 2000 he and his wife serve the First Reformed Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, as co-pastors.
