Rev. Wayne M. Pask, has served Holy Cross since July 2003. He completed his academic training for the pastoral ministry at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO in June of 2003 and was assigned to us as a convertible Vicar. He completed his Vicarage in June 2004 and was ordained and installed as our pastor on July 4, 2004.

Prior to attending seminary, Pastor Pask was a Commissioned Lay Minister (1997) in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and was certified as a Lay minister through the Theological Education by Extension (TEE) program at Concordia University, Mequon. Wisconsin. Rev. Pask was called by Grace Lutheran church to do rural outreach in 6 west-central Indiana counties. As part of that call, he served Living Christ Lutheran Church, Oxford, Indiana (English District) as their Minister of Word and Sacrament. He was certified as a church planter by the Director of North American Missions in St. Louis, MO in 1998. While serving Grace Lutheran Church, he planted Crown of Life Lutheran Church in Frankfort, IN.

Rev. Pask was born in Medina, New York where he lived until graduating from College. He was married to his wife, Judy in 1969. They have one child, who is a graduate student in North Carolina. Pastor Pask’s occupations prior to fulltime church work included four years of military service in the United States Air Force, Pesticide Residue Laboratory Supervisor for the Indiana State Chemist’s Office, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana and Academic Advisor in the School Science, Purdue University. Rev. Pask has Master’s degrees in Zoology (State University of New York, Brockport), and Environmental Engineering, (Purdue University).

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