ABOUT
June 30, 2020
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About Us
We see ourselves as a caring congregation. We offer small group ministry, caring elders and one-on-one and family counseling with Pastor Knill, who has a doctorate in this field.
Our Sunday worship experience centers in the Divine Service, where God comes to us in His gifts of Word and Sacrament, and we respond in thanks and praise. We believe the traditional liturgy offers the most complete, biblically-based setting for this interaction between God and His people.
We also have a children's Sunday School during service every week.
During the course of a year we hold the following special services: Advent Midweek, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Lenten Midweek, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Celebration, and Thanksgiving Eve.
Church Staff
Our Senior Pastor - James Knill
Pastor Knill has served Concordia since 1964. He was born in Seymour, Indiana, and baptized at the Lutheran church in the small farming community of Sauers, where his grandfather was pastor. He attended the Lutheran elementary school in Seymour and the Lutheran high school in Ft. Wayne. Near the end of his first semester at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, he responded to a strong urge to study for the ministry and enrolled that fall at Concordia college in Bronxville, NY. He received a B.A. from Concordia Sr. College in Ft. Wayne and a Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, in 1964.He served his vicarage (internship) year at Trinity Lutheran Church in Orlando, Florida. He was ordained by his grandfather and installed as pastor at Concordia, August 2, 1964. In 1995 he received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, with an emphasis in counseling and small group ministry. He is married to the former Heidi Waingartner. Pastor Knill and Heidi have two adult children and three grandchildren.
Our Pastor For Community Outreach - John McElvain
Pastor John McElvain was born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was confirmed at Concordia while his family was stationed at Quantico. He graduated from Woodbridge Senior High School and attended George Mason University. He and his wife, the former Pamela Carpenter, have three children and two grandchildren.“Pastor John” is a second-career pastor. He was previously employed as Vice-president of Operations for a large restaurant chain. In 2010 he graduated from the Specific Ministry Pastor Program at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, Missouri, and was called and ordained as Concordia’s Pastor for Community Outreach. He is also a bi-vocational pastor, in addition to his pastoral duties, serving as a department manager for a nearby grocery store.
Cleaning Services
What this Congregation Can Offer You
Full participation and the opportunity to grow in the six functions of the Christian Church: Worship, Nurture, Witness, Fellowship, Service and Stewardship. Our ministry is grounded in the confessional standard of the historic Lutheran Church, based on the inerrant Word of God, and the holy Sacraments as instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ. all carried out in the love of the same Jesus Christ.What You Can Offer the Congregation
Your full participation and a commitment to grow in the faith into which you were baptized. TheChristian life is best expressed as you share the gifts God has given you. We give of ourselves for the "building up of the churcch." including the responsible sharing of our resources, of time, talents, and treasure, for service in and through the church."God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work" (2 Corinthians 9:8)
