Pastor Jerabek's Bio

Pastor Todd Jerabek

Todd Randall Jerabek was born to Neil and Annette Jerabek on August 8 of 1962 in Algoma, Wisconsin. He grew up attending Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1980, Todd was a member of the first graduating class from Northeastern Wisconsin Lutheran High in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In May of 1985 Todd graduated from Concordia college in River Forest (CCRF), Illinois with a Bachelor's in Elementary Education.

On June 15, 1985 Todd married Pauline Palmreuter, also an '85 graduate of CCRF, previously from Lincoln Park, Michigan and a graduate of Lutheran High West, In Detroit, in 1981.

From August of 1985 until August of 1988, Todd and Pauline were elementary school teachers at Zion Lutheran Church in Maywood, California.

In September of '88 Todd began his studies at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Pauline supported him as a teacher at Zion Lutheran in Fort Wayne. During the 1989 - '90 school year, Todd also taught part-time at Zion while attending classes part-time at the Seminary.

Todd's vicarage was to Onekama, Michigan serving Trinity and Norwalk Lutheran Churches. While there, Pauline also taught at Trinity Lutheran in Onekama and Trinity Lutheran in Manistee.

After vicarage Todd and Pauline returned to Fort Wayne for his final year of Seminary, culminating in graduation on May 21, 1993. Todd has served as Pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Naugatuck, Connecticut from July 11, 1993, the day in which he was ordained and installed there, to January 9, 2000.

Todd and Pauline were gifted by God with their first child on November 15, 1994, Nathan Samuel Jerabek. On January 19, 1997, God blessed them with their second son, Timothy Benjamin Jerabek.

Todd's father still resides in Green Bay as does Todd's only brother, Tyler. Pauline's parents are now in Denver, Colorado; her sister Karen and family in Fayetteville, North Carolina; and her brother Joel is a teacher in Denver, Colorado with his family.

In 1997, Todd began studies toward a Doctor of Ministry degree at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

On January 23, 2000, Pastor Jerabek was installed as Pastor of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Pella Opening and Zion Lutheran Church in Embarrass.

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