Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12
Pastor Chris has served churches in Iowa and Wisconsin since 1989. Prior to being led into pastoral ministry, he was a forestry aid with the US Forest Service in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota, and a professional photographer and a multi-image media producer in the Twin Cities. Since becoming a pastor, he enjoys serving in churches with schools. He is also a Chaplain and has served as Manager of Spiritual Services in the Marshfield (WI) Clinic Health System.
He is originally from Minnesota and attended Concordia College St. Paul where he met Heidi. They have been married forty years and have five children and seven grandchildren. He is an avid curler and golfer, sings in a semi-professional Chamber Chorale, and finds putting Legos together to be therapeutic. He and Heidi have traveled internationally with their favorite destination being anywhere near Switzerland and Germany.
Growing up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Minneapolis and then serving a one-year pastoral internship in Houston, Texas, breathed a God-given passion within Chris for cross-cultural mission. Throughout his pastoral ministry, he has organized youth and adults from the Midwest to serve in short-term mission events in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Many of these events he facilitated with the help of Ukandu, a mission outreach of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Texas District, and the Latin American Lutheran Mission in Laredo, Texas.
Any funds raised that exceed Mission Partner’s Total Cost of Missionary Service may be used to further support Mission Partner in missional activities, or Mission Partner may donate, after consultation with the Executive Director, any excess funds to one or more Mission Partners who are in good standing with MCN or to MCN’s General Fund. The purpose for this is that any funds raised are to support missional activities throughout the world.