Education:
Bachelor of Science: “Professional Written Communications.”
Eastern Michigan University

Master of Divinity
Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus OH.

Ordained on:
Feb, 2022
Called to “Our Risen Lord”  Jan 2026.

Pastor previously served at “Emmanuel Lutheran Church” In Southfield, Michigan.

Some personal faith beliefs:

1. Salvation - Salvation is in Christ’s grace and faith alone! While people stumble in faith, God remains faithful to all creation.

2. Calling of the Church: God’s Work, Our Hands

The Good News is not only that we are saved, but that we, as the church, get the privilege to reflect Christ in the world. God can and does use our hands and our very lives to share the gospel to a world in need.

We are a light to the world as we serve our neighbors near and far - serving the poor, uplifting the marginalized, and standing up for justice and peace on earth.

3.  We all have vocation(s).  We are all called to love our neighbors using our many varied gifts and skills the Spirit has given us. Clergy are not the only people ‘called’ by the Trinity.  We may have more than one vocation, and it may change in different stages of our baptismal journey.

4.  Our lives are bond together in Christ.  Disciples celebrate and mourn with one another (Romans 12:15). We come to know each other’s suffering as our own. We come to know each other’s joys as our own.

As we follow the way the cross the weight becomes lighter as we carry it together. Jesus gives us the gift of one another, for God knows it is not good for the human to be alone (Gen. 2:18).

5. The Kingdom of God is richly, beautifully diverse and inclusive: We are created by God as part of a people of many different backgrounds, ethnicities, social statuses, genders, and sexual orientations.  It is gift from the Spirit, that many different voices and minds of people live and work together in mission.

Our prejudice and bias causes pain to our own lives for we deny and do not see the image of God in one another.  We push away those who could have reflected Christ to us.

6.  Science and reason are gifts from God. They are not opposed to faith. Medicine, and academic research for example may be used to serve the common good. A person may have a vocation to be a doctor.