pastors

Zion is blessed to have two faithful pastors currently serving here.

 

Pastor Steve Kline

Pastor Steve Kline currently serves as Senior Pastor at Zion Lutheran Church in Wayside, WI.He has been at Zion Wayside since May 2002, having previously served at Hales Corners Lutheran Church in suburban Milwaukee and at St. John Lutheran Church in Pulaski.Pastor Kline was a 1992 graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and a 1988 graduate of Concordia College Wisconsin in Mequon.

Pastor Kline’s wife, Debbie, is the school counselor at Zion Wayside. They have two children:Erin (age 12) and Andy (age 9), who both attend Zion Lutheran School.

Pastor Kline has been a part of growing churches at each stop in his ministry.His passion in ministry is developing an outreach mindset among God’s people in every aspect of their church and in their lives. He seeks to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus in unique and meaningful ways, to reach those who have never been reached and strengthen those who have. Pastor Kline and Zion Wayside have adopted the purpose statement, “Finding the lost and feeding the found.”

Pastor Andrew Thompson

Pastor Thompson is originally from Minnesota, and though a Vikings fan, he's not so bad.

He is married to Lynn, and they have three children, two daughters, Anastasia and Elizabeth, and a newborn son, Micah.

Zion Lutheran Church in Wayside is his first call out of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, after Vicaring at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Waterford, WI.