Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, December 26, 1993 TAG: 9312280001
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV12 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE LENGTH: Short
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Kluttz has agreed to be interim pastor for the first six months of 1994 while a search committee goes about the business of recruiting and hiring his successor.
But he will take his salary only through March 31. After that, the money that normally would be paid to a pastor will go into the church's Building Fund.
That fund is paying off the costs of constructing a major addition to the church, conceived and built during Kluttz's six years as pastor. It has added Sunday school rooms and other facilities to the church on Wytheville's Main Street.
In effect, Kluttz is donating his salary for April through June to the fund.
Kluttz came to Wytheville from Saint John's Lutheran Church in Roanoke, and told the search committee at that time that he would stay for six years. He celebrated his 65th birthday this month.
He also has served churches in Rural Retreat, Abingdon and Bland County.
Even as he nears completion of his active service in the ministry, Kluttz is trying new things.
Lavelva Stevens of Pulaski, Holy Trinity's director of music, has Kluttz chanting the service for the first time in his career.
by CNB