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Rev. Jack R. Baumgarn

Was born and raised in southwestern Minnesota. After attending Mankato State College, he attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois. His first call was to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Osceola, Iowa. While he was there, a new church was built and a new mission started twenty miles south in Leon, Iowa. He was then called to Faith Lutheran Church in Oakville, Missouri, and started a mission church off that congregation - Pastor Baumgarn has been at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Francis for 21 years.
In District and Synod work, he was Dean of a district high school camp for eight years, Chairman of Synod's Youth Board for ten years, and Vice-President of a district for six years. He received the Servus Ecclesiae Christi Award from the Fort Wayne Seminary in 1981 and presently serves on the Board of Regents at Concordia Theological Seminary at Fort Wayne.
Rev. Baumgarn has spoken at LLL and LWML gatherings and for other groups in the areas of evangelism, youth work, Satanism, etc. He recently served on the Synod’s "150th Anniversary Committee" and the "Church Growth Study Committee".
His family is made up of his wife, Carol, who teaches in Trinity’s Christian school, and their four boys, of which the oldest is married with two children and attending the seminary at Ft. Wayne, the second is married with four children and is the Associate Pastor at Trinity in St. Francis, the third son is the Art Director and layout person for Good News magazine, and the fourth son works in Minneapolis directing group homes.
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