Peter Kruschel is mission counselor for ‘the western region,’ an area encompassing three WELS districts – Pacific Northwest, Arizona-California, and South Central. A graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and WELS pastor since 1976, he has served congregations in Wisconsin and Florida. More recently he has served as the Associate Administrator of the Board for Home [...]

In May hundreds of people celebrated the graduation and assignment of the class of 2008. If you happened to be in attendance at any of the events that week you may have heard the happy tones of Spanish-speaking voices. Many family members and friends of Gonzalo Delgadillo and Nelson Encarnación, graduates of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary [...]

Pastor Ed Schuppe graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 1977. He served in Jacksonville, FL from 1977 until 1990 as part of the Team Ministry experiment of the Board for Home Missions, eventually becoming the founding pastor of Good Shepherd in Jacksonville. Pastor Schuppe served on the South Atlantic District Evangelism Commission from 1978-1990 and [...]