May 2nd, 2026 - Karl Salscheider

Meeting: Saturday May 2nd, 2026 - 8:00 am First Baptist Church Community Room.

A light breakfast will be served.

Speaker: Karl Salscheider: 

A native of Barron, Wisconsin, Karl Salscheider acceptedJesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in 1973 while a student-athlete at Northern Michigan University (NMU). Karl and his wife, Dorothy, moved to Bemidji in 1981, where he spent 32 1/2 years at BSU, initially as the men's basketball coach and instructor, and later as a professor and academic department chair.

Over a 45-year period in Bemidji, Karl and Dorothy have ministered at Faith Baptist and the Evangelical Free Church; Karl as a deacon, elder, life-group leader, Sunday School superintendent, and Dorothy as a choir director, pianist, organist, AWANA and Patch the Pirate musical directors, and life-group dinner host. Karl and Dorothy are members of the First Baptist Church.

In his retirement years, Karl directs the National Collegiate Health Priorities Project, which surveyed 2,464 students from 26 states, representing both public and private, faith-based universities, asking about their health priorities (including spiritual health), worldviews (including evolution and creationism), and satisfaction levels with their priorities.

Karl holds a BS degree in Economics and an MA in Health from NMU, and a PhD in Health from the University of Utah. Karl and Dorothy have five children and 14 grandchildren, all within 60 miles of their home on Midge Lake.

Karl will present his Christian testimony and share his journey through the secular workplaces of basketball, teaching, administration, and research. A short question-and-answer period will follow the presentation.

His favorite Bible verses are from 1st John 5:12-13: "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."