Living Word in Waukesha, WI, still meets in a gym at a local grade school (Rose Glen Elementary School). Every Sunday, the congregation sets up metal folding chairs, unpacks the altar and hauls in the musical instruments. The saying there is, “We may have cold chairs, but we make up for it with smiling faces.”
In [...]

When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered, “Pastor.”  In second grade I drew pictures of me preaching in the pulpit.  The Lord has blessed this desire, and I graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in May, 2008.  From the Seminary I was called to start a church in New [...]

Last year marked two particularly momentous beginnings for me and my family. The first was the birth of our daughter, Sophia, who was born Mar. 19, 2007. The second was the birth of our new church, Victory of the Lamb, about a week later.
The birth of our church went about as well as it could [...]

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 [...]