Our Pastor

Pastor Glenn Schwanke and his family came to the Copper Country in the fall of 1996.  Since then he has served Peace Ev. Lutheran church and the "Lutheran Collegians," a student organization at Michigan Technological University.

Pastor Schwanke is a 1981 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin.

Before coming to the Copper Country, Pastor Schwanke served a Wisconsin Synod congregation in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  He also served as a circuit pastor in the Wisconsin Synod.  He has served on the Wisconsin Synod's Committee on InterChuch Relations (CICR), where he served as the Germany Contact Man.  In that position, Pastor Schwanke worked to strengthen the ties between the Wisconsin Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, a small confessional church body located in what was formerly Eastern Germany. 

Pastor Schwanke now serves on the Wisconsin Synod's Committee on Mental Health Needs.  This committee exists to help congregations, members and called workers.

To learn more about the CMHN,click on the following link http://archive.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?2601&collectionID=653

Pastor Schwanke is also chairman for the Northwoods Pastoral Conference of the Northern Wisconsin District (WELS). The Northwoods Pastoral Conference contains congregations that span a territory from Calumet, Michigan in the north to Abrams, WI in the south. 

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