Pastor Curtis Peters
Pastor Curtis Peters is very excited to be serving Resurrection
Lutheran. "This is a dedicated, caring group of Christians," he
said. "We have people of all ages including several singles. And
they are creative - offering a variety of ways to reach out and to
serve the community."
Pastor Peters grew up in rural Minnesota (he is the same age as
Garrison Keillor) and remains a big fan of the Twins, Vikings,
Gophers, etc. At Valparaiso University he met Pam Zimmermann (now
Pam Peters, an author on the Underground Railroad). They married in
1965 and have three children and nine grandchildren.
For a while it seemed that Pastor was going to be a perpetual
student studying also at Concordia Senior College (B.A.), Concordia
Seminary (M.Div.), Washington University (M.A. & Ph.D.) and
Heidelberg University in Germany. But in 1970 he took a position
teaching philosophy at Concordia Senior College and taught there
until 1976; from 1976 to 2006 he taught philosophy and became a dean
at Indiana University Southeast.
From 1976 to 1995 he also served part-time as assistant pastor at
Grace Lutheran in New Albany; from 1995 to 2009 he was the pastor at
Concordia Lutheran in Louisville. His ministry has also included
volunteer campus ministry at the University of Louisville and board
membership for Camp Cedarbrook among many other things. In the fall of
2012, Curt was asked to come back to Indiana University Southeast as
Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; he continued in this capacity
through June of 2013.
Pastor and Pam have led several overseas tours to Germany, Great
Britain, Israel, Greece, Turkey, China, and other areas. They are
involved in a number of community ventures including the formation
of the Vintage Fire Museum and Safety Education Center as well as
being partners in The Gallery on Pearl, LLC - both in New Albany,
Indiana, where they reside.
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,
the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service,
so that the body of Christ may be built up, until we all reach unity
in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become
mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-13