Dick Birr

Main speaker

Growing up on a dairy farm near Green Bay, WI, Dick received the Lord Jesus as his Savior during Vacation Bible School at his Alliance Church. Preparing to follow the call to ministry, Dick went off to Crown College in Minnesota, then Trinity Seminary in Illinois. Dick and Pau-lette met at Crown, they married in 1974 in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. They served C&MA churches in Cheyenne, WY, Belgrade, MT, and Huron, SD. They moved to Sioux Falls, SD for a base from which to do Alliance Transi-tional Ministries, of which there have been 10 assignments since 2014, in Oregon, South Dako-ta, Nebraska, and Iowa. They have enjoyed two sons and a daughter, who are currently working in Oregon, South Dakota, and Spain. “The boundary lines have fallen for us in pleasant places”, where it’s been a privilege to participate in all sorts of sports and outdoor activi-ties. Through it all, Dick proclaims, by God’s grace, “I know whom I have believed, and am per-suaded that He is able to keep that which I’ve com-mitted unto Him against that day!”