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Pastor Peter Prange
Superintendent

Academic Profile

Bachelor of Arts, Northwestern College, Watertown, Wis., 1994

Master of Divinity, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wis., 1998

Background

I was born and raised in Janesville, Wis., where I attended public elementary and middle school, before enrolling at and graduating from Northwestern Preparatory School and later Northwestern College in Watertown, Wis. I graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wis., in 1998. Since then I have served congregations in Jacksonville, Fla., Morton Grove, Ill., Johnson City, Tenn., and Kenosha. I have served as the school pastor at Kenosha Lutheran Academy since 2021.

I met my wife, Tarren, while serving in Jacksonville, where we were married in 2003. We have two children. I enjoy time with family, theological reading, all kinds of music, and cheering (more often booing) my beloved Chicago Cubs. My special interest is family and church history, especially the history of the Lutheran Church and Wisconsin Synod. I have authored a number of essays and books on the subject. Besides my parish service, I also served the synod as a circuit pastor, a member of the Commission on Inter-Church Relations (CICR), and on the committee that produced Christian Worship: Supplement.

Why did I become a pastor?

Although I come from a long line of pastors, going back at least four generations on both sides of my family, I didn't become a pastor because it was the "family business." I became a pastor because I came to realize how life in this world doesn't last forever--that it's filled with troubles and disappointments for every single person--but that in Jesus alone we have certainty, peace, confidence, and joy, no matter the circumstances, now and forever. That's a message in need of sharing, and it's a privilege to do that work fulltime in service to our Savior. What could matter more?

My Favorite Passage

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

-- Romans 8:38-39

It's a wonderful comfort to know that we have all-loving and all-powerful God who is working all things--even those things that we would call "evil"--for our ultimate and eternal good.