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.