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The First Presidency
President
of the
High Priesthood
Frederick Niels Larsen
Councilor to
the President
Robert Ostrander
Councilor to
the President
Lane Harold
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Robert Ostrander
Councilor to the
President |
Frederick Niels Larsen
President of the High Priesthood |
Lane Harold
Councilor to the
President |
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Robert Ostrander
Councilor to the
President
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 Robert E. Ostrander was born in Alma, Michigan in
1944. He was introduced to the Reorganized Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by a friend in
1958 and was baptized in 1960. He married Karen
Schofield, of Creston, Iowa in 1965, just two days
before leaving for military service in Viet Nam.
They currently live in Independence and have two
children, Tammy of Independence and David of Grain
Valley. They also have two grandchildren, Brian and
Sarah. Brother Ostrander retired from the
Department of Homeland Security September 1, 2006,
after 30 years of service in the Federal
Government. Brother Ostrander was ordained to the
office of Deacon in 1965, and Elder in 1974. On
September 23, 2000, he was ordained a High Priest
and set aside as an Apostle in the Remnant Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Both Brother and
Sister Ostrander are converts to the Church and,
until August, 1999 when his mother was baptized,
were the only members of their respective families
in the Church. Both Brother and Sister Ostrander
have strong testimonies of the validity of the
Church and its work. They look forward to this new
opportunity to serve the Lord as a member of the
First Presidency during the exciting times that lie
ahead as the Church continues to strive toward Zion!
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Lane Harold
Councilor to the
President
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 Land
Ward Harold was born in 1929 and raised at Russell,
Kansas, amid the oil boom occurring in central
Kansas. His father was a high school science
teacher, who reluctantly left the teaching field in
1937 in the midst of the great depression. The
family survived those tough times, with his father
then becoming a postal clerk and eventually
Postmaster at Beloit, KS where Lane graduated from
High School. He studied at Kansas University where
he earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees.
Building on his
father’s interest in science, Lane became a chemical
engineer. He worked for a number of major chemical
and fuel producers in Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and
Missouri, including making nylon for DuPont,
petrochemicals and detergents for Conoco, gasoline
and oil blends for Amoco at two different
refineries, and farm fertilizers and agricultural
chemicals for Farmland Industries in Kansas City.
In 1979, this farmers’ cooperative sent Lane to
Washington, D.C. for 16 months to work on an
exploratory Presidential Commission for using grain
and biomass-derived alcohol in gasoline blends.
While on that assignment with the U.S. National
Alcohol Fuels Commission, Lane had occasion to work
with or discuss energy issues with two high school
acquaintances from Russell, Senators Robert Dole of
Kansas and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. As
youths, Lane and Arlen had hiked and camped together
in the Russell Boy Scout Troop.
Lane was a convert
to the RLDS Church in 1954, through the diligent
labors of his fiancée, Ruth Elser, and her immigrant
parents, Otto and Lena Elser. Lane studied
diligently to comprehend the Restoration faith and
was called to the office of Priest in 1957, to Elder
in 1962 and to High Priest in 1967. He served in a
number of congregations and became a counselor to
Blue Valley Stake Bishop, Willard Becker. He later
served six years on the Blue Valley Stake High
Council, until his occupational transfer to
Washington. Lane and Ruth have two children, Dr.
Ralph Harold and Janet Richards, and now enjoy their
four grandchildren in the Independence area.
After his early
retirement from Farmland Industries Chemical Plant
at St. Joseph, MO in 1987, Lane and Ruth partnered
with another RLDS family to renovate a historic
building just west of the Auditorium in
Independence, and then over the next five years to
operate an 11-room Bed and Breakfast, Woodstock
Inn. In this labor-intensive hospitality job, they
met many wonderful guests from all over the world;
Ruth cooked and Lane served thousands of
breakfasts! They met, fed and conversed with
hundreds of Saints from every splinter of the
Restoration movement, including many Utah Saints
making church-history tours with their families.
After years of
frustration and with the RLDS Church steadily in
decline, Lane was able to work with other High
Priests who voted to support the 1999 “Proclamation
Document,” and in doing so, formed the Council of
High Priests (D&C 122:10) which temporarily led the
fundamental members in their patterned, step-by-step
reordering of the Church. Over the years, Lane has
gradually been assigned more and more duties in
publications, and served with a number of talented
writers from whom he learned a great deal, working
on The Tidings of Zion. Lane has in the past
served as Pastor or assistant at Farview Restoration
Branch (Independence), St Joseph (MO) Restoration
branch, and in 2000 was able to assist in the
reordering of the Remnant Church
He and Ruth have
together contributed to the publishing and mailing
of 28 issues of The Hastening Times. Thrilled
with the Church’s progress to date, Lane considers
it a privilege to assist President Larsen in his
prophetic leadership of God’s covenant people
through these challenging times.
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