Kurt Spicer

Dean of Students

Hi, my name is Kurt Spicer. I originally come from the city of Elmhurst, Illinois, which is 20 minutes west of Chicago, USA. I was a student at Bodenseehof from 2012-2013. For the last 3 years, I have lived in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. I have been working there as a civilian nurse at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a U.S. military hospital here in Germany. I enjoyed my work there helping patients but always had sensed that the Lord was directing me elsewhere. When asked to take the position as Dean of students at Bodenseehof I struggled with the decision for a long time. I was afraid to give up my job because I was looking at things from the world’s perspective. Corrie ten Boom wrote, “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

The Lord needed to bring some difficult circumstances into my life to confirm that I needed to go. We have such a loving, heavenly Father who guides us (sometimes with a kick) right to where we need to be. People ask me often, “what about your nursing career?” It is difficult to respond, but what I know is this, tomorrow is not guaranteed, and if I were diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer in 5 years, I would have regretted not obeying the Lord’s prompting to come to Bodenseehof.