Our Pastors
Rev. John L. Bush - Senior Pastor
The Reverend John L. Bush, a lifelong Missouri Synod Lutheran, was born in 1949 in Oak Park, Illinois, to Lewis and Eleanor Bush.
Upon completing college in 1971, he began a career in marketing and sales promotion. Prior to beginning his own agency in 1985, he helped launch the Special Offers Department of Montgomery Ward.
He entered Concordia Seminary at St. Louis in September 1995, and upon completion of the Alternate Route Program, graduated in May of 1999. He was assigned to St. Paul to serve his vicarage, and was installed as Senior Pastor to St. Paul Lutheran Church July 28, 2002.
John and His wife, Laurel, live in Brownstown. They are also the parents of grown children, Sean, Christopher, and Jamie.
Rev. Nick W. Koschmann - Associate Pastor of Youth & Young Adults
Pastor Koschmann was born in 1980 in Juneau, Alaska and has lived all over the United States. He is most recently from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He attended college at Concordia University River Forest with plans to become a High School Band Director. During his sophomore year at CURF he changed majors and joined the Pre-Seminary program. After graduating from CURF in 2003, he enrolled in Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis. He served his vicarage at Bethany Lutheran Church in Kaukauna, Wisconsin and, upon graduation from the seminary in 2007, received his first Call to serve here at St. Paul.
Nick and his wife, Rachael, live in Trenton along with their daughter, Lucy, their son, Murray, and the newest addition to their family, Ginny.
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