Reverend Katherine Rieder has been a minister in Indiana for the past 18 years. She says she is bi-coastal...born in Brooklyn, N.Y. but lived most of her life in various places all over California.   She attended the University of California where she earned a M.A. in Music Theory and Composition, and California Lutheran University where she earned a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.  Katherine began her working career as a music instructor at the college level.  Then life brought changes and she taught high school, middle school, and elementary levels.   

Katherine also sever many years as a church musician, choir director, and professional musician.  She is the mother of 6 (one birth child, two adopted children, and three stepchildren) and grandmother to 14.  When the time seemed right, she fulfilled a longtime call to ministry and attended San Francisco Theological Seminary, earning a Master of Divinity. She was ordaied here in Indiana in the Whitewater Valley Presbytery, where she has served primarily as an interim minister.   Katherine's husband, Tom Noe, originally ca, from New Mexico, but has built golf courses all over the world.  He loves playing golf and working on hot rods from the 1930's and 40's.  Katherine and Tom live in Muncie now, and are delighted to be called to New Castle to serve here during this time of transition.