Missionary Pastor Keith Haberstock
What a joy it is to be living in Fort McMurray now for well over a year. It’s an incredibly warm and welcoming community! That’s a great thing now that the snow has arrived and Fall has fled! Thank you Lord for it all!
Having just celebrated Remembrance Day and the blessed reminder that we are yet free to worship in our changing country we rejoice daily in all things being led by the Holy Spirit to point all persons to Jesus, the Saviour of each soul.
A bit about us:
As a stubble jumper from Yorkton, Saskatchewan (yet bleeding green and white every CFL season) surrounded by wheat and barley fields, I came to Edmonton to study at Lutheran Church Canada’s (LCC’s) lone University, Concordia University College of Alberta (CUCA). I completed a Bachelor of Education Degree at the University of Alberta (UofA) all so that I might enter the Holy Ministry by studying and receiving a Masters of Divinity degree at LCC’s Concordia Lutheran Seminary (CLS) also in Edmonton.
In the middle of my seminary training the Lord blessed me with a faithful helpmate, Barbara (nee Lehman) who has assisted me abundantly in my calling to Shepherd God’s people and seek out those who yet do not believe in their Saviour. In 2006 the Lord blessed us with the birth of our son Joshua. Thank you Lord!
I have had opportunity to serve the Lord and His people for three years at St. James/Trinity Lutheran Churches, Whitecourt and Rochfort Bridge, AB. We then moved so that I might serve as Missionaries for LCC in Lviv, Ukraine. We were totally blessed to live in Ukraine for over five years before returning to Canada to serve as Pastor to Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond, BC for over eight years.
For the past ten years I have served as Pastor to the people of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and School, Calgary, AB. What a joy it was to have both a Word and Sacrament ministry to the congregation and alongside that a Word and Deed ministry in the School sharing Jesus with hundreds of Christian and hundreds of non-Christian kids daily.
Now in Fort McMurray the joys of being a Missionary Pastor continue under that very calling, to serve as Missionary Pastor to and with the poeple of Trinity Lutheran Church, Fort McMurray and to reach out as a missionary in the city and beyond.
It is my prayer that we the people of God called Trinity Lutheran Church will be used by Him to bless each other and call each other to fully embrace our purpose as His people, that of speaking to people about their Saviour, Jesus, so that they might hear and come to faith in Him.
Lord richly bless our desire to make You known,
In the Risen and Living Jesus,
Missionary Pastor Keith Haberstock