Katharina Stinard

February 5, 2022

In Memory of Katharina Stinard Katharina Stinard was born in Irschenburg, Germany on Dec. 23, 1950 to her parents, Anian and Katharina Bacher. She has two older brothers and a younger sister. Kathy grew up on a small farm in southern Germany and helped her siblings and father with the chores, where they milked the cows and harvested crops. They had a large apple and pear orchard from which the harvest was sold in a local market and also made into distilled beverages. Also, the family maintained a large number of beehives from which they harvested honey. Kathy was a good student and was very active in her church and youth groups. She loved to bicycle with her friends and play the zither and flute and to sing. She also enjoyed bicycling and hiking and skiing in the nearby mountains. She graduated from high school in 1969 and afterwards attended business school where she studied business administration and accounting. Upon completion of this training she was an executive secretary for a manufacturing company from 1972-1974. In Nov. 1974, she joined the Unification Church and helped with religious education programs in Munich before going for missionary training in Frankfurt. It has always been Kathy’s desire to help people in different countries, so she was very pleased to join two other missionaries, one from Japan and one from the United States to do missionaries activities in Ghana. This was a challenging but enriching experience for her. She was blessed in marriage to Jim Stinard in 1982 and in 1983 he joined her in the mission field. They worked in both Nigeria and Ghana and brought many people to a greater understanding of God and Christ. Kathy was also very instrumental in setting up and implementing a relief program, called the International Relief Friendship Foundation, IRFF. in Ghana. In 1998 Kathy and Jim returned to the United States and joined the Belvedere Unification community in Tarrytown, New York where they have been participating in church projects and activities over the years. Kathy worked as a sales representative at United Vision Sales and as a team leader in their distribution center. Also, for many years she served as the Human Resources Specialist for the United Peace Federation. Kathy is survived by her husband Jim, their three children, Melanie, Andrew and Patrick, and her sister Maria, brother Alois, and nephews and nieces.