Ryan Kiblinger
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Married:  To Najdia Diane Kiblinger June 25, 2005

Children:  Elika Blair Kiblinger born March 7, 2008; Jedidiah Rutledge Kiblinger born Nov. 8, 2009

Pet:  Major

Bio:   I grew up in what my wife calls Pleasantville.  I grew up with my mom and dad and older brother and younger sister in Arlington, Texas.  I graduated from Arlington High School in 1995 and spent the next 3 years of my life enjoying Austin, Texas as much as I could and doing what I needed to to get through The University of Texas.  I much enjoyed my time in Austin, learning how to live on my own, learning how others lived very much alone, and growing in my faith.  I have always seen my time in Austin as very much a time where I learned to be firmly planted on the Truth of God and to attempt to see the world through God's eyes rather than my own.  University was a time when the religion of what I did on Sundays, was replaced by a faith that sustained me and change my very life.

              After Austin, was 3 years living in the Chicagoland area.  I figure Chicago to be just about the best place in the world to live if you have to live outside Texas.  I had a great time learning and continuing to grow at both Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (as if either school could think of a longer name).  After those 3 years of classroom work, I came back to Texas to do a semester of Clinical Pastoral Education at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. 

           After graduation from seminary, I have served in two appointments before coming here to Foundation in June of 2007.  I was first appointed to the two point charge of Bangs/Mullin in Oct. 2002, and then as an associate at First UMC in Killeen in June of 2004.  I have been thankful for each of my appointments and the diversity of the congregations I have been so fortunate to have served.  I truly am amazed at the way in which God can get you just where you need to be when you need to be there.

         I have been here at Foundation since June of 2007, and I feel so blessed to have this great responsibility to lead this congregation.  Here at Foundation we are a community who truly strive to know God more and to grow God's kingdom.  I am so proud of the hard work of faith development that goes on here that is carried beyond the walls of the building.