LINDSBORG -- Bethany Lutheran Church soon will have a new pastor.
The church has announced that Rev. Christopher Deines has accepted the call to serve the church. The Deines family is scheduled to arrive in Lindsborg sometime in mid-March and Deines’ first Sunday serving the church will be Easter Sunday, April 12.
Deines and his wife, Chelsea, are both graduates of Bethany College, classes of 2007 and 2006 respectively. They have three children aged 9, 7, and 2. Deines, ordained in 2012, graduated from Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. He comes to Lindsborg from a two-point ELCA parish in southwest Missouri, which he has been serving for about the last eight years.
“It is with great joy that we have been called to walk with one another in ministry. I am excited to build relationships with God’s children and to move into the future guided by the love and grace of God,” said Deines.