{"id":50,"date":"2017-10-28T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.sjlagrange.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:26:53","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Rev. Mark Stapleton<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Associate Pastor<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mark Stapleton has been a lay member of St. Johns for over 20 years. In 2010, he completed Lay Ministry courses from Mequon, Wisconsin and became a Lay Minister. In 2018, he was ordained as a Specific Ministry Pastor. Pastor Stapleton also oversees the Comfort Dog Ministry program at Saint Johns.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Dr. Marc Alan Brunelle<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Director of Music\/Organist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr. Marc has spent his career as a choral conductor and organist serving various parishes on the East Coast and in Chicagoland. He has taught at a seminary; was Director of Music at a cathedral; Artistic Director of a choral ensemble he co-founded, and has taught high school. He has led five European choral tours, and even conducted a choir for Pope Benedict in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Mark Stapleton Associate Pastor Mark Stapleton has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/staff\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}