Pete Lange

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Pete Lange

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Pete Lange serves as Pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church in Eldon, MO. He graduated from Christ College Irvine in 1991, was a youth minister in Kansas for 10 years, and   then graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 2006. He loves his family and likes reading, hiking, and golf.

 

 

Ed Nugent

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Ed Nugent

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Ed Nugent is a 1991 graduate of Messiah College, and a 2008 graduate of the Lutheran Brethren Seminary. Because he sees the worst sinner he knows in the mirror each morning, he is personally desperate for God’s grace and passionate about proclaiming it to Fellow sinners both inside and outside of the church. His singular desire is to preach Christ and Him crucified. Ed has served Lutheran Brethren churches in Fergus Falls, MN and Le Sueur, MN prior to joining the staff at Our Redeemer’s.

Noel Jesse Heikkinen

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Noel Jesse Heikkinen

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Noel Jesse Heikkinen is a pastor at Riverview Church, a multi-site church of over 3,000 near Lansing, Michigan. Heikkinen also helps lead the church planting ministry Acts 29 and is the chairman of the board for the mission agency Reliant. He and his wife, Grace, have four children.

Loso

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Loso

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Juan Carlos Bedoya a.k.a. Loso, was born in Queens New York. Years later he was introduced to a group of friends who were involved in a Christian rap ministry called H.G.A. (His Glory Alone). Bible studies, evangelizing and Fellowship made up the majority of the ministry’s goals, and it is also in this ministry that his passion for preaching developed. In 2009 he began attending Trinity College of Florida where he is currently pursuing a pastoral degree.

Jacob Smith

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Jacob Smith

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The Reverend Jacob Smith is the Rector of Calvary - St. George. Jake was born on the Navajo Reservation and was raised in Yuma, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 2000 with a BA in History, with an emphasis in Near Eastern Studies. He received his M. Div from Trinity Episcopal in May, 2006. Jacob was ordained to the diaconate on June 3, 2006 in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, and ordained a presbyter at Calvary Church on December 3, 2006.

Troy Neujahr

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Troy Neujahr

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Pastor Troy Neujahr is a second-career pastor, having worked in the secular workforce for a number of years before entering the ministry. He graduated with honors from Grace University in Omaha, NE, with a dual major in Management/Organizational Leadership and Biblical Studies, and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where his focus was Missiology.

Joshua Miller

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Joshua Miller

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Joshua Miller is the pastor of Jehovah Lutheran Church (LCMS) in St. Paul, Minnesota and an adjunct professor of theology at Concordia University, St. Paul. He is the author of "Hanging by a Promise: The Hidden God in the Theology of Oswald Bayer" and a co-author of "Promising Faith for a Ruptured Age: An English-Speaking Appreciation of Oswald Bayer."

 

Nick Lannon

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Nick Lannon

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Nick Lannon is a 2000 graduate of the University of Arizona and a 2007 graduate of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, having studied Communications and Religious Studies while at Arizona and Systematic Theology and Ethics at Trinity. An avid movie-watcher, NBA fan and all-around couch potato (when he's not playing sports himself), Nick is fascinated by the intersection of the Gospel and everyday life.

Aaron Zimmerman

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Aaron Zimmerman

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Aaron Zimmerman is graduated from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in History and Science. Before entering parish ministry, he taught English in Kazakhstan, wrote case studies at Harvard Business School, and worked as an analyst at H.J. Heinz Co. After receiving his M.Div. from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in 2008, he served at St. Stephen's Church in Sewickley, PA. He is currently Rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Waco, Texas.

Delwyn Campbell

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Delwyn Campbell

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Delywn X. Campbell is a Lutheran pastor serving Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Lansing, MI. Del has served as a strategic mission developer for many years for the LCMS.  Del lives in Lansing with his wife Lenita and their two daughters.

David Zahl

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David Zahl

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David Zahl is the founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor-in-chief of the Mockingbird website, and co-host of The Mockingcast. He lives with his wife Cate and their three sons in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also serves on the staff of Christ Episcopal Church. A creative and provocative thinker, Dave is the author of several influential books, including Seculosity, Low Anthropology, A Mess of Help, and his newest work, The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World. Through his writing, speaking, and podcasting, Dave builds bridges between deep theological truths and everyday life. He has a gift for exposing the pressures and anxieties of modern faith culture and then lifting them with the freeing message of grace.

Karen Stenberg

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Karen Stenberg

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Karen Stenberg has a passion for encouraging women in Christ, and being honest about life and how God is at work in hard places. She is Co-Director of Women’s Ministries for the Lutheran Brethren. Mom to seven boys and one baby girl in heaven, she's married to Daniel Stenberg who pastors a church in Bergenfield, NJ. Karen is originally from the PNW, and true to those roots, she loves rain, coffee, laughter, and a good book.