Our Staff

Rev. David Brinkman - Pastor Brinkman attended Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in the Pre-Seminary program in 1997 with a Major in Natural Sciences and a Minor in Music.

David met Liane [Bade] at Concordia College, St. Paul in the Christus Chorus. They were married July 26, 1997. Liane taught both third and fourth grades in LCMS schools while David attended Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. David graduated from Concordia Seminary in May of 2001, having earned his Master of Divinity Degree. He worked for the following year at Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in St. Louis as their Minister of Worship.

Rev. Brinkman was installed at Risen Savior on June 30, 2002. In addition to his other many responsibilities as pastor at Risen Savior, Pastor Brinkman has served as Pastor of Family Ministries, Youth Pastor and Spiritual Advisor to the Risen Savior School. During his first year at Risen Savior, he formed the Risen Savior Praise Team and founded the 9:30 Contemporary Worship Service. The Brinkman's have two young children, a son, Joseph and a daughter, Ella.

Sr. Carol Bowers Cobble - graduated from Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL with a BA degree in Sociology. She is also a
graduate of the Lutheran Deaconess Association LDA/LDC Conference at Valparaiso University. She is a certified Hospital Chaplin and certified in Geriontological Pastoral Care. She also holds a BA in Theology from Christ College, Irvine, CA.

Sr. Carol served for five years as an Oncology Chaplin at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to coming to Risen Savior, she spent five years as the Deaconess of Pastoral Care at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orange, CA where she was consecrated in 1987.

Sr. Carol joined Risen Savior in April of 2001. She serves as the Spiritual Advisor and mentor to the Pastoral Care Ministries, an organization of over 200 volunteers that provides spiritual care to members of the congregation that are experiencing crisis in their lives or are ill or infirmed. She personally visits members that are infirmed at home, in hospitals or hospices. Sr. Carol and her husband Phillip Cobble were married in 1995.
Linda Pauley is the Director of the Risen Savior School. As the founding Director of the school, Linda has directed its growth from eighty students in 2002 to over three hundred in 2006. She also guided the school through its accreditation by NAEYC and NLSA while expanding the school from a preschool to include Kindergarten, First and Second Grades.

Linda holds a BS Degree in Business Management from Arizona State University and a MA Degree in Early Childhood Education from Concordia, Minneapolis, MN. Prior to joining Risen Savior School, Linda had careers in Business and Marketing Management. She and her husband, Bill have two children, Austin and Brad