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Hi, I'm Clarence “Cal” Emerich and I was born “Up Home” in Pottsville, PA in 1940. That makes me pretty old, right?

My “Sign” is the “Sign of the Cross.” I enjoy watching Law & Order and “Lost” on TV, and I used to enjoy listening to Dr. Laura on radio before the ultra-liberals pressured her sponsors and local stations canceled her show.

Schleifenheimer was my wife Jean’s maiden name. She married me in December of 1959 so her name would fit on her luggage.

I married her because I love getting the best of a deal.

Jean works part time as a secretary at St. Columbkill Church in Boyertown, PA. She is a full time mom and grandmom. She loves collecting bears, and those who know her are always giving her “beary” good gifts.

I worked as a PC repairman at Agere Systems (formally Lucent Technologies, formally AT&T, formally Western Electric) in Reading PA until retiring in August of 2002 with 40+ years of service. They are now “off-shore” with their manufacturing, and while the worker bees are having their promised retirement benefits threatened, the execs keep getting “performance awards.” (Real life stories don’t always have good endings.)

Working within The Catholic Charismatic Renewal occupied a great deal of my time, especially as co-chair of the Berks County Regional Service Committee and editor of their newsletter, The Witness for a number of years. I also moderated a Men’s Group. Both of these ministries have ceased and I have tried to hear God’s call in my life in other areas.

Since retiring I have undertaken teaching CCD in my parish and completed a three year course with the Christian Ministry Institute (CMI) in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. This is a great program for laity who desire to serve the Catholic Church in a deeper way. The Allentown Diocese has since instituted a program of the same type called the Institute for Lay Ministry (ILM) in 2004.

I keep busy by serving as an Extraordinary Minister of Communion, and doing “odds and ends” around the my parish such as working with the Seniors’ Group and our Evangelization / Ecumenism Committee. I also serve on our Diocesan Ecumenical Committee.

Ecumenism is an important part of my life. Christ prayed “that all be one” on the night before His death, and if it’s that important to Him, it’s important to me. As a convert to to Catholic faith, I am aware of the pain and “poor witness” we Christians sometimes give the world with our “family feuds.”

You may think this makes me interesting, or you may think it makes me something else! If you're more or less interesting than me, get in touch!

We are active Roman Catholics involved in the Pentecostal (Charismatic) Renewal, Marriage Encounter, and ecumenical endeavors. In January of 2003 we joined St. Columbkill parish in Boyertown, PA

We have 4 children (2 of each sex), 10 GRANDchildren, and 1 great grand child.