Candlelight Vigil Planned Sunday For Sydney Loofe

From Antelope County News

The Neligh community will host a candlelight vigil on Sunday night at the Neligh-Oakdale football field to pray for the safe return of Sydney Loofe.

The vigil will begin at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend and is asked to bring their own candles. Grace Lutheran Pastor David Kufahl will lead the prayer service. 

Sydney, the daughter of George and Susie Loofe of Neligh, has been missing since Wednesday after leaving for a date. She was last heard from on a SnapChat prior to the date. Sydney's vehicle is still at her home, and she did not go to work on Thursday. Neither friends nor family have heard from Sydney since.

George Loofe is the high school principal and assistant football coach at Neligh-Oakdale, and Susie Loofe is a teacher at the school and very involved in student and community activities.

A Lincoln Police Department (LPD) officer told Antelope County News that the search continues for Sydney, who is a 24-year-old, 5'7 female weighing about 130 pounds. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Her last known location was near Wilbur, Nebraska.

If you have any information on her whereabouts, contact the Lincoln Police Department at 402-441-7204.

Vicar Jordan Schaller

Meet the Schallers



Jordan and Amy met at Concordia University Chicago in January of 2010. Amy grew up in Bryant Indiana surrounded by Amish neighbors in a small farm community while Jordan grew up in St. Louis Missouri.  In college Amy majored in Art education with an emphasis in figure drawing and a minor in theology while Jordan majored in theology with a minor in art with an emphasis on 3D art.  On June 1, 2013 Jordan and Amy were married and moved to Elmhurst Illinois.  While there Amy taught art at a local Christian school and Jordan worked for a Lutheran church doing music and youth ministry work.  On April 29, 2014 Eloise Anne Schaller was born.  Two weeks later the Schallers moved to Bridgman, Michigan where Jordan took a job at a Lutheran Church as a Young Adult Ministry Coordinator and Worship Arts Director for two small LCMS churches.  While there, God continued to work in their lives and those around them and continued to press them to consider the seminary, so in the Fall of 2015 Jordan enrolled at Fort Wayne Theological Seminary to begin pastoral training.  On July 1st, Adeline Rose Schaller was born.  Now a year and a half later Eloise has become a wonderful tea party host, ballerina and yoga fanatic, while Adeline has taken to climbing, dancing and getting into all sorts of trouble.  Amy has spent much of her time taking care of the kids at home as well as painting, drawing and running whenever she can.  Jordan has stayed busy at work with seminary classes and his part time job as a chiropractic assistant at a nearby clinic.  When they have free days the family will often go on long hikes or bike rides or anything else that involves the outdoors or boardgames.  They are very excited to meet their new church families in Nebraska and can't wait to see how God works through them and the church to share God’s Word and grow in faith and love towards one another.