Edward Schwind

Nativity Church
Fargo, ND
Wife: Jennifer

Ed was born and raised in Bismarck, ND and spent three years during middle school in Wenatchee, WA. He joined the United States Marine Corps after graduation from Bismarck High School. His 6-1/2 years of military service was spent as a musician with field bands in California and North Carolina playing countless concerts, ceremonies, and parades for both military and civilian audiences.
 
Ed returned to North Dakota to study electrical engineering at NDSU. He met his future wife, Jennifer, who invited him to Mass at St. Paul's Newman Center and encouraged him to return to the practice of the faith of his childhood. They have been members of Nativity parish for 22 years where they were married. Their six children were also baptized at the parish and began their education at the parish school. It was through parish life that Ed had a deeper conversion through a men's retreat and began discerning a call to the diaconate at the urging of Deacon Bruce Dahl.

In his professional life, Ed is the co-founder and Vice President of Signum, an electrics, software, and manufacturing company.