Meet The Pastor
Pastor Steve Dygert
Steve Dygert is originally from Omaha Nebraska. He was a teacher for 32 years, having
taught in public and private schools, and on the college level for over 20 years as a band
director, choir director, and administrator. Steve’s son Cameron is a 26 year-old graduate
of the University of Nebraska in Computer Game Design.
His education was received from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of
Nebraska – Lincoln, the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and Suffield
University in Idaho.
Steve’s performance experience as a musician has been extensive over the years. He has
played with various groups ranging from the Omaha Symphony Orchestra to the Glenn
Miller Orchestra. For ten years, Steve made his living playing in the pit orchestra for
musical comedies such as the first two national road tours of ‘Annie’ with Harv Presnell
and Kathleen Freeman; ‘Sugar Babies’ with Mickey Roonie and Ann Miller; ‘Hello
Dolly’ with Carol Channing; and ‘Anything Goes’ with Cid Caesar. He has also been a
member of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. In a different mode of musical performance,
Steve directed a 44 voice male barbershop chorus in Pinetop, Arizona, the White
Mountain Chorus, which is associated with the Far Western District of the Barbershop
Harmony Society.
Steve was selected to present the music for the Lutheran Student Movement Convention
(LCA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1982 along with LCMS Pastor Dave Kehret.
Pastor Kehret was also the campus pastor at Valparaiso University for almost 20 years.
Steve has also been on the Board of Elders in four Lutheran Churches; Peace Lutheran in
Omaha, Nebraska; The Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, Omaha, Nebraska; Faith
Lutheran in Safford, Arizona; and First Lutheran in Papillion, Nebraska. Steve also
served on the Vestry for the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in Pinetop, Arizona. The
Nebraska District Campus Ministry Board was also part of Steve’s service to the
Lutheran Church in the late 1970s. He was also elected Vice-President of the Ennis
Christian Minister’s Association in 2017.
Steve comes from a Russian/German family that has produced over 60 pastors for the
Wisconsin and Missouri Synods, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over
the last century. Now the family is represented in the newest branch of Lutheranism,
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ.