Meet The Pastor
Pastor Kevin Schultz
Pastor Schultz is founding pastor of The Vine. He moved to Coeur d’Alene in 2016 with his wife, Miriam, and their two grown children: Caleb & Tabitha.
Pastor Schultz grew up in Wisconsin and went to high school at Wisconsin Lutheran High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While there, he began his pastoral studies. After graduating he attended Northwestern College in Watertown, WI, where he studied Greek & Hebrew along with theology and Biblical history and received a bachelor’s degree in Biblical languages. From there he went on to Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, WI, and received a Master of Divinity degree in theology. While studying at the seminary, he served an internship for one year at St John’s Lutheran Church in Burlington, WI.
Upon graduating from the Seminary, he married his wife Miriam Westendorf and served as pastor of Abiding Word Lutheran Church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for 20 years, and also as president of WELS-Canada. In 2007 he moved to San Diego, California, and served Reformation Lutheran Church for 6 years. In 2014 he moved to Spokane to serve as pastor at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, before moving to Coeur d’Alene in August of 2016.
Pastor Schultz loves the Lord and is passionate about helping people get connected to Jesus and seeing their lives changed for the better. He is always available to you and would love to meet you. You can call him, e-mail him, or just stop in at his office during the week if he can be of any service to you.