Luke Kammrath, Pastor (luke.kammrath@gmail.com)
Luke was born and raised in San Antonio, TX. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 2003 from Texas A&M University and was a civilian Flight Test Engineer for the U.S. Air Force for 3 years. After hearing the call to leave everything behind to follow Jesus, he quit his job and received his M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO. Since May 2010, he has lived, worked, and served in KCK as pastor and urban missionary. He has also worked in urban gardening and is the author of “Follow Me”: The Way of Jesus According to the Gospel of Mark, “Father, Into Your Hands”: The Way of Jesus According to the Gospel of Luke-Acts, and “The Way of Jesus”. His beautiful and intelligent wife, Julie Ann, is a wonderful teacher and mother to their son, Yeshua, and daughter, Immanuela.
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Kevin Dierks, Community Minister (kgdierks@gmail.com)
Kevin is a Lutheran educator from Minnesota who has spent a couple decades as a teacher of middle-schoolers and as a principal, but now heads up the outreach of St. Luke’s to the immediate neighborhood. Kevin received his bachelor’s degree from Concordia University in Wisconsin and got his master’s degree from North Texas University. Kevin and his wonderful wife, Lisa, have three children, Micah, Morgan (husband Gabby), and Marcus.