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| Mark Jeske is on the board of directors of Thrivent Pan-Religious Insurance. He is now the boss and paymaster of Synod Presidents Harrison, Shroeder, and Moldstad. |
South Wisconsin District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod > News & events > Events > Professional Church Workers Conference > Presenters:
Rev. Mark Jeske, a Milwaukee native, has served as the senior pastor at St. Marcus Lutheran Church on Milwaukee’s near north side since 1980. During those earlier years of his long tenure there, he made a personal commitment not to abandon the inner city when racial tensions caused urban flight to accelerate. Prior to serving as the pastor at St. Marcus, Pastor Jeske spent a year in Colombia, South America, starting a mission church as part of his internship assignment while attending Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wis., for his theological post graduate education. He also spent two years teaching English, history, Old Testament, and geography at Northwestern Preparatory School in Watertown, Wis.Pastor Jeske has been bringing the Word of God to viewers of Time of Grace since the program began airing in November of 2001. In addition, Pastor Jeske has written a Bible commentary (James, Peter, John, Jude) and more than two dozen daily devotional booklets. Pastor Jeske and his wife, Carol, an elementary school teacher, are blessed with four children; John, Sam, Liz, and Michael. They live on the east side of Milwaukee.
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G - Inner city ministry - Rev. Mark Jeske
Once-thriving Lutheran ministries in central cities are melting away or gone.
Is Lutheranism in the cities doomed? Can Lutheranism survive without an
adequate supply of Germans? Is it possible to build a multi-racial Lutheran
community? Pastor Mark Jeske has served in Milwaukee’s central city for
over 30 years and will share stories and encouragement about St. Marcus
Lutheran Church and School and Time of Grace television.
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| Wille, the LCMS DP, graduated from The Sausage Factory, a classmate of Mark Jeske. |
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Christ Chapel at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, where the WELS had their music conference in 2011, rather than at the new chapel at MLC 30 miles away, had its spire blown over by a tornado in March 1998, and the spire's cross landed across the campus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Chapel#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_College#Disasters
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/27/tornadoanniv/
The tornado threw the steeple's cross to the other side of the campus.
Just after the tornado struck on that March evening in 1998, Johnson looked around Christ Chapel and saw that the steeple and roof had been torn away. The pews were pitted with rocks.
http://images.publicradio.org/content/2008/03/27/20080327_brokenspire_33.jpg
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