Meet The Pastor
Reverend Christopher Seifferlein
Baptized into Christ Jesus on April 25, 1976 by the Reverend Donald Lunick of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Detroit, Michigan, Reverend Christopher Mark Seifferlein thanks God for those who formed him in the Christian faith. His mother Barbara taught him to love the Sacred Scriptures, demonstrating a daily life of prayer and devotion. As a young child he remembers seeing his father Russel mouthing the words of the confession of sins during the Divine Service on a Sunday morning and wondering, “I didn’t know my dad was a sinner!” (His father thereby taught his son what it meant to be a good father, above all to receive from Jesus the forgiveness of sins and the words of eternal life.) It was Christopher’s grandmother Eileen who called him “her little pastor boy,” tousling his blond hair when he was a child. Studying engineering at Michigan Technological University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for two years after high school, he calls this his “Jonah moment,” and thereafter enrolled in the pre-seminary program at Concordia University in Chicago. Pastor Seifferlein entered seminary at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne in 1999, studying at Westfield House in Cambridge, England for his second year, a school operated by our sister church body, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England. Halfway through that year he married Erin Verage on a snowy day at Peace Lutheran Church in Sussex, Wisconsin. The couple made their first home in England, moving to New England in 2001 where Pr. Seifferlein completed his vicarage at St. Peter Norwalk, Connecticut under the Reverend Bob Beinke. After finishing his final year of seminary, Pastor Seifferlein was called to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockton, Minnesota serving for three years until called by God to serve the saints at Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Adell, Wisconsin, where he served for thirteen years until he was installed at Mount Calvary in Lititz on November 16, 2019. Along the way the Lord blessed Pastor Seifferlein and Erin with children Claire, Lillian, Isabel, August, Theodore, and Frederick. Pastor Seifferlein and his family thank God for the holy Christian Church and pray that by His Spirit He bless this ministry, through His Son Jesus, at Mount Calvary.