Diana (Savage) Kruger ('68 - '72)
 
    Diana entered Northwest College in the fall of 1968. Her extracurricular activities included a missionary internship in Mexico City during the summer of 1970, traveling with the Maranatha Sounds ensemble the next year, and serving as pianist for a college PR team, the Daughters of the King, in the summer of 1971. The following spring she graduated with a B.A. degree in Biblical Literature.
    Over the years Diana served as church pianist, organist, soloist, VBS director, Sunday school teacher, and pastor’s secretary. In 1988 she received her license to preach with the Assemblies of God and joined the staff of Renton A/G as Pastor of Church Publications. After her ordination she became Pastor of Women's Ministries. Diana also headed up the missions program and served as cultural and language liaison for the church's Hispanic Ministry. During that time she served on the A/G Northwest Ministry Network’s resolutions committee and world missions committee. In 1995, she and fellow NC alum Sallee Schroeder Conn co-founded what is now the NWMN’s Credentialed Women’s Network.
    Diana has led or been a part of eight missions trips to Latin America, one trip to Nepal and India (with former Congresswoman Linda Smith to visit safe houses for young women and girls rescued from forced prostitution), and she led a women's work trip to a local Indian reservation.
    In 2000, she received a master’s degree in Theological Studies. From 2003 to 2005 she served as adjunct professor in the L.E.A.P. program at Northwest University. In 2005 she went to work for Vine Maple Place, a ministry in Maple Valley, WA, that provides transitional housing and support services for homeless children and their families.
    Diana grew up in Sedro-Woolley, just a short distance from the Vandenburg’s estate, and her widowed mother still lives at the family home. Diana’s son passed away from liver cancer in 1978 on his first birthday, and her daughter, Aimee, is married and lives in Renton. Both Aimee and her husband are also graduates of Northwest College.
    Since 1972 Diana has written numerous articles and contributed to book compilations. The 1990 book that she authored, Who Says Winners Never Lose: Profiting from life’s painful detours, focused on loss and how to recover. Recently, Diana launched a web site that features some of her latest writing: www.WoundedChristians.com.

She may be contacted at DianaEsther@WoundedChristians.com.