Our Staff

Dwight Schettler serves as President of Ambassadors of Reconciliation and the Institute for Christian Conciliation. He joined the staff of Ambassadors of Reconciliation in February 2014 as Vice President for Advancement. He also served on AoR's Board of Directors. Prior to joining Ambassadors, Dwight served four years as Director of Training & Certification for Peacemaker Ministries. In this role he oversaw many facets of ministry delivery, including all foundational and advanced training courses, Peacemaker seminars, the annual Peacemaker Conference, the Certification Program, peacemaker field support, and Peacemaker University–Peacemaker Ministries’ new online e-learning portal. He teaches reconciliation seminars and training events around the world. Dwight was introduced to biblical peacemaking as a party in a conflict where Ambassadors of Reconciliation led an intervention in his home church. He credits that experience as a turning point in his life. He is passionate about teaching and equipping others to be peacemakers who apply the power of the Gospel in their everyday lives. Prior to joining Peacemaker Ministries, he was with Hewlett Packard for more than 22 years, holding a variety of leadership positions, most recently being Director of Engineering in their Imaging and Printing business. Dwight and his wife Ruth have two children and two grandchildren.

Tom Ebel serves as ICC Case Administrator. He was born to teachers working in the mission field for the Lutheran Church in Amapyaka of the Highland Region of Papua New Guinea. He moved to the States when he was 7, when his father worked for the Center for Indian Ministries and studies and Concordia University. Tom lived in NE, IN and HI growing up. While in high school, he broke his leg playing football which piqued his interest in Athletic Training. He has a BS in Exercise Science from Concordia Nebraska and is an In The Core trainer. Because of his time growing up as a missionary kid and pastor’s kid, he has had lots of different experiences, within different cultures, with the idea of spreading the word of God to the people he meets. Tom’s professional life has taken him to Ocala Fl, Seward NE, Perth WA (Australia), Portales and Clovis NM, and finally Billings MT. While in Montana, he also completed his goal of going to all 50 states. He has been back to Papua New Guinea and was recently in Jinja, Uganda. Tom is ready to help people see Jesus in their conflicts.

Tom has been married to his beautiful bride Angie for 32 years. They have four very gifted children. Alison (Philip) Yox have two uniquely gifted young children Inez (4) and Ezra (1). Alison is a trained elementary music teacher, who is currently working from home, and Philip works in the Chemistry world at Colorado School of Mines. Malia (Joshua) Frerking, live in NE. She is a gifted teacher and coach of speech and debate at Concordia University Nebraska and Joshua currently works as an insurance agent. Benjamin works as a chemical engineer in Sutherland, NE. Joshua just finishing a mission with YWAM in Indonesia and has been working as a welding inspector and plumber apprentice.

Now retired from full-time ministry, Ted Kober still serves as Senior Ambassador Emeritus for Ambassadors of Reconciliation (AoR). Contact our office to explore how Ted may still be able to serve you! Since AoR’s founding, he served as President until 2015. Ted has published articles, Bible studies, devotions, and books including Confession & Forgiveness(CPH, 2002) Cultivating Lifestyles of Reconciliation (co-authored with Ken Sande; AoR, 2009), Conflict Resolution vs. Reconciliation (AoR, 2017), and Built on the Rock: The Healthy Congregation (CPH, 2017). He teaches in church-worker conferences, schools, universities, and seminaries throughout the world, and he has served as an adjunct instructor for Peacemaker Ministries (US) and PeaceWise (Australia). He has equipped church body leaders from more than 40 countries. A Certified Christian Conciliator™ since 1992, Ted consults and conciliates in cases ranging from personal disputes to lawsuits and church conflicts. Prior to reconciliation work, he owned or managed more than 30 different companies, and he resolved fifty-nine legal disputes in one estate. He has served on more than 50 boards of directors, including for the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. In 2021, Concordia Seminary awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters for his writing and teaching around the world. A lifetime member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Billings, Montana, he occasionally plays organ for worship. He and wife Sonja live in Billings. They have one son and two grandchildren.

Rev. Ed Keinath is now retired from full time service at AoR. He served as Director of CrossLife Ministries, the counseling center of Ambassadors of Reconciliation in Seymour, Indiana for more than 20 years. With an extensive background in marriage and family counseling, Ed’s work includes counseling, parenting education seminars, and grief support groups. He provides consulting to numerous church professionals, church lay leaders, Lutheran school faculty, and their families. He has served as a reconciler for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and presently serves on the Commission on Ministerial Health of the Indiana District. Ed's experience includes working with conflicted churches, church schools, and other related groups, and he serves as a mentor and an adjunct instructor for Peacemaker Ministries. In addition, Ed serves as a pastor for St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jonesville, Indiana. He and his wife, Janeen, have five children: Joel, Daniel, Michael, Joshua, and Rachel, and seven grandchildren.