Sheri Ketner is most recognizable from hosting Grace for Today, but she also does a lot behind the scenes, too. Her official title is Producer/Auction Coordinator, but her job at WTLW includes a lot more than that.
Ketner began volunteering about 14 years ago. “My husband got saved watching Channel 44 and I wanted to give back to the ministry,” she explains. The auction was where she first helped out, making calls to solicit items. About two years later, the station called her up and asked if she wanted a job. This came as a surprise to Ketner, who will turn 50 years old in October, as she was trained to be a hairstylist.
“It was a God thing,” she says. “I wanted to do hair but God wanted me here.” During her years here, Sheri has done a lot of different things. She has run the camera, done floor directing, made travel arrangements, and booked guests both for in the studio and away from the studio.
Currently, her job includes producing Ask the Pastor, producing and hosting Grace for Today, and she helps produce LiveWire and Community Calendar. She adds, “Any ministry show that is taped in the studio, I help with in some way.”
Ketner continued to do hair for 20 years, up until three years ago. “The hours just got to be too much and I had to make a choice,” she says. “I felt God telling me to choose WTLW.”
She is happy with that choice, and one of her favorite things about her job is meeting people in the community. “People will recognize me from the show…. I am a huggy person and I just love meeting them and loving on them and praying with them,” she says. “It’s so neat.”
Part of Sheri’s happiness comes from knowing she is doing what God has called her to do. “I totally believe I am smack dab, dead center where God wants me to be at this time in my life,” she says. “I’m fulfilled. I’m humbled by the call He’s placed on my life.”