On June 9, 2018, Rev. Michael Alan Brown was installed as pastor at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Barrington, Illinois.
Pastor Michael Brown was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 19, 1979. The son of Marvin and Phyllis Brown, he was baptized at Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 28, 1979. Michael was later confirmed at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Missouri, in1994.
Upon graduation from Winnetonka High School in 1998, Pastor Brown spent the next six years in undergraduate studies. During this time, he also interned and thenworked for Nebraska State Senator Elaine Stuhr in Lincoln, Nebraska, and United States Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond in Washington D.C. During his final two years of college, Michael worked full-time for Dickinson Financial Corporation in downtown Kansas City. In 2004, he graduated with honors from Park University with a
B.A. in Public Administration.
Seminary soon followed. While attending Concordia Seminary in St. Louis from 2004-2009, Michael did his field work at Glendale Lutheran Church in Glendale, Missouri. For the 2006-2007 schoolyear, Pastor Brown studied at Westfield House – an attached house of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. During the 2007-2008 school year, he served as vicar at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Steeleville, IL. On May 22, 2009, Michael graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, with a Master of Divinity.
On July 11, 2009, Rev. Brown was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Kansas City and installed as Associate Pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 26, 2009.
“The past nine years in Lincoln have been a time of great joy in serving as an under-shepherd of God’s flock at Redeemer. Word and Sacrament ministry at Redeemer has been colored with overseas group travel, educational group trips in the U.S., community involvement and partnerships, service in the District, and, most wonderfully of all, a loving church family” – Pastor Brown.
“Though there is sadness in leaving Redeemer, it is tempered by the love I have already experienced from my St. Matthew Church family, the overwhelming conviction that this Divine Call is God’s will, and my excitement for the challenges and joys that lie before us as a family of faith in the Barrington
community, living out the cross and tomb love we have been baptized into in Jesus Christ!”
Please welcome and pray for Rev. Brown in his new call as pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
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