Rev. Bryan Drebes is Pastor at Pacific Hills Lutheran Church in Omaha Nebraska

Pastor Drebes attended Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, beginning in 1997.  He spent the summer of 1999 teaching English to Chinese middle school teachers in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.  He served a four-month vicarage at St. John Lutheran Church, Plymouth, Wisconsin, followed by eight months at Bethany Lutheran Church, Overland Park, Kansas. Pastor Drebes was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry at Zion Lutheran Church, Palmyra, Missouri on August 19, 2001, and installed as Associate Pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, Overland Park, Kansas on September 9, 2001.  He served Bethany for 14 years.  Pastor Drebes accepted a Divine Call to be Senior Pastor at Pacific Hills Lutheran Church in November, 2015.

Pacific Hills Lutheran Church

Pastor Caleb John Kruse is a pastor at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Elkhorn Nebraska. He is a 2006 graduate of St. Paul’s Lutheran High in Concordia, MO, and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Theology from Concordia University in Seward, NE in 2010. After graduation, he married his college sweetheart, Brittany, and enrolled at Concordia Seminary in St Louis. He served his vicarage at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and School in Lakewood, CO from 2012-13. After returning from vicarage, Brittany and Caleb were blessed with their beautiful daughter, Clara.  He graduated with his Masters of Divinity in 2014, and then stayed an additional year to pursue further studies. In July 2019, he completed all requirements for his Masters of Sacred Theology. Caleb was ordained at his home congregation, St Paul Lutheran Church in Concordia, MO, on May 31, 2015.
 

Rev. Dr. Brent Smith of Alexandria, VA, started started serving as mission development counselor at Mission Central in Mapleton, Iowa in 2016.  As mission development counselor, Smith works to inform LCMS congregations and their members of the Synod’s national and international mission work, while also connecting people with opportunities to support LCMS missionaries and projects with prayer, encouragement and voluntary giving. Smith is based in Omaha, Neb. — a location that will allow him both to welcome missionaries traveling to Mission Central and deploy nationally at the invitation of individuals and congregations.