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Tribute to Stuart Lange

For anyone who is interested, I have attached my tribute to Rev Stuart Lange here. He is a legend! It was fun to roast him....

A Tribute to Stuart Lange, No Longer Vice Principal Community of Laidlaw… But still church history lecturer… so not a good bye, but my way of Saying Thanks to you for your years as VP Community…

Stuart Lange, not Langey; or Longey; or not langgggg.. but Lange! Or, as I like to put it, S.lang… Slang… for good reason.
Stuart Lange, history prof, a man who truly embodies his subject; the quintessential historical prof…
Slightly eccentric, crooked smile, hooked and bent nose… you know he has a crook elbow too, took the dog for a walk, hit the chain, smashed the elbow… Of course the dog was unharmed…
No Surprise, a lover of animals, each year looking after the animals at the Massey Christmas drive through, donkeys, lamas… etc…
Then there is his Einsteinlich hair… kind of a wild man of Southland look… in fact… Stuart Lange
A face a cartoonist would die for!
The nemesis of the liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church… A man who Affirms the faith, in fact, the head of Prez Affirm, head of the Prezie evangelicals, a Luther-type reformer… did you not know? … it was he who led the charge for the Word… someone must write a biography of this man… Stuart Lange… but, long odds on ever becoming moderator
Stuart Lange… A Forrest Gump like runner, once bounding 8 hours over the Keppler Track.
Sources tell me, he ran like a gazelle for the first 2 hours, but the last two were hell.
He was heard to say, man is not made to run that long! Ran with 3 ministers and an undertaker! In safe hands… Stuart Lange
A Shepherd to his flock, here and in his churches, from Tuatapere to Massey, from BCNZ to Laidlaw.
Lover of sheep and people, a farmer at heart, a midwife to lambs and people like, truly obedient to his Lord… Feed my sheep, feed my lambs!
He lost one you know! Last week… but he has recovered.
Evangelist… once learnt to shear sheep to win the lost, learnt Samoan to win the lost… loves to win the lost… A lost sheep kind of man, a kind of father to the prodigals.
Speaking of sons… Father of four, strapping lads, most getting hitched as we speak, pillars of the church… if one can judge a man by his kids… good on you Stu!
A husband of the great Christine, her support through unenviable struggles, but faith won out... good on ya mate.
Brilliant mind, theological extraordinaire, soon to be Doctor, about beeping time!... So, the Rev Dr…
Stuart Lange.
Vice principal, aptly entitled… principal of vice, or should I say, anti-vice… like Miami Vice, only Massey Vice!
Trouble shooter where students went awol of OTT or lost the plot… like doctors who were no doctors… or out of control Calvinists… lots of them!
But always embodying humour, grace and truth…
Stuart Lange
Who rolls his R’s, who plays mean blues piano, who on occasion (so I have been told by reliable sources) wears women’s blouses to church to preach and lead… and that in the middle of the great dispute that racked the church!...
A white one it was, frilly, with white cloth buttons, with shoulder pads! Mmmm, now there’s a sight, Stu in his wife’s blouse with shoulder pads…
You see his mum got Christine’s blouses mixed up when she did the ironing!
Christine joined him at the door, of course she never warned him, not til he was shaking hands…
I am told, that at the door, he was offered the full range of women’s accessories… red stilettos, fish net stockings…
Now you’re talking, that would be a sight, with those hairy legs in fishnets…. Of is it fish legs in hairy stockings… Stuart Lange…
What else does he get up to in his spare time?
Tramper, man of the south, a real bloke’s bloke, but with that soft touch when required.
You know he loved his pijerro… full of hay and fragrance
A Great teacher… I even had him when he started here… took ribbing well… Stuart Lange …
You know he hates clerical clothes does this Stuart Lange… yet one class dressed up in full regalia one year, mitres, dog collars, the lot… you won’t see him in clerical robes, just his wife’s clothes
Stuart Lange
Then there was the class that set up completely in the courtyard… unfazed was Stuart Lange, so he took the whole lecture out there… college was fun back then!
Did you know… he keeps a folder of funny things students say in assignments and exams… there are lots of those… hey, you could be in there… watch what you say!
Like the class who found out his birthday… every answer in the exam worked that birthday into their answers… he likes a good joke, he can take it, cause he is a good joker… is Stuart Lange
Leader of community, full of wit, off-hand humour, turns of phrase, clean but edgy, self-deprecating, razor sharp mind, reminds me of the flight of the Concordes, but with history, or more likely, John Cleese from Fawlty Towers… Basil Lange!
Or better… Stuart Lange.
We will miss you as leader of community, you did well, you were fun, you had wisdom (no surprise for one so historical), you led well, you cared, you knew when to laugh, when to cry, your encourage, your scolded when you had to, you will be a hard act to follow … for you are a good fellow…
Stuart Lange, pastor, friend, mentor and leader…
Thanks and Shalom

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