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FIRST CALLS FOR GRADUATING PASTORS Markus Peschel (CLTS)
Commended to the Free Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa Markus Peschel was born in Germany, where he was also baptised as an infant. While he was still an infant, his family moved to South Africa where he grew up. His mother tongue is German, but he is fluent in English. As a born and raised Lutheran, he received catechism class and was later confirmed in the Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa (FELSISA). After his tertiary education he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter and turner, a trade similar to a machinist. In 2012 he began his undergraduate studies in theology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In September 2016, his seminary life began in St. Catharines, Ontario. From August 2019 till July 2020, he underwent vicarage training at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Ontario. Having now completed his final year of theological studies in St. Catharines, he intends to return to South Africa in June of this year, where FELSISA will place him as a pastor.
VICARAGE PLACEMENTS Jason Richard Gillard (CLTS) Redeemer Lutheran Church (Waterloo, ON)
Chad Benson Miller (CLTS) Grace Lutheran Church (St. Catharines, ON)
David William John Zakel (CLTS) Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (Burlington, ON)
David Zakel grew up in rural Ontario, and as such he is a bit of a country boy at heart. As an infant he was baptised into Christ and later first received Christ’s Holy Body and Blood at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Tillsonburg, Ontario (now amalgamated with St. Peter’s, Rhineland, to form Peace Lutheran Church, Tillsonburg). David studied History and Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario, and Education at Nipissing University. He spent the next eleven years teaching multiple subjects and coaching various sports at the secondary school level before making the transition back to student life as a seminarian. During that time and by the grace of God, he was blessed with a loving wife, Stephanie, and four lovely and energetic children: Kaleb (10), Ethan (8), Hannah (5), and Nathaniel (2). David served his vicarage at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burlington, Ontario, under the oversight of Rev. Robert Krestick.
George Nigel Prozenko (CLTS (Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Winkler, MB)
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