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Our Savior Lutheran Church and Student Center called The Reverends Michael
and Susan Thomas to be their co-pastors in August of 2002. At that time they
were serving with the ELCA Division for Global Mission in Jerusalem as
co-pastors at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in the Old City. Susan began
the co-pastorate at Our Savior Lutheran Church and Student Center during
Advent, 2002, and Michael joined her in the fall, 2003, after completing the
Jerusalem term. Before going to Jerusalem, they co-pastored an English-speaking
ecumenical ministry in Vienna, Austria.
Michael and Susan are both graduates of St. Olaf College and Yale University
Divinity School. Michael did additional study at Harvard Divinity School. Their
campus ministry experience began in Cambridge and Boston where Michael served
as Lutheran Campus Pastor at Boston University and Northeastern. Susan was
Lutheran Campus Pastor at MIT and a pastor at University Lutheran Church,
surrounded by the Harvard campus.
Susan is particularly interested in writing and the arts. Michael loves
architecture and tramping in the woods, among (too many) other things. An
organization close to his heart is the Christian Peacemaker Team, a peacemaking
organization focused on reducing violence and protecting human rights in
conflict zones.
Both greatly enjoy living in their new home in the woods with their two cats
and chocolate lab, and their sometimes-present young adult sons.
Pastors Michael and Susan Thomas with Bishop Munib Younan, Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
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