Email Rev. LeroyPastor Leach is in his seventh year of serving this congregation. He came to be a Lutheran in a round about manner. He was rasied a Roman Catholic and attended Catholic School until seventh grade. During the early 70's he dabbled in the Eastern religion of Zen Buddhism and moved to northern California where he encountered the Jesus People. There he heard the Gospel of how Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He committed his life to Christ. Upon returning to his home town in Rhode Island, he attended an Assemblies of God Church in Providence where he met his wife, Deborah, and had his first son, Aaron. They went to A/G Bible College where pastor recieved his BA in Bible and a second son, Jesse, was born. Then he went to Westminster Theological Seminary, became a Presbyterian, and recieved an MA in Religion. After doing Church planting as a businessman, they left for the midwest, where pastor was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. Upon reading Lutheran theology, he left the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, became a Lutheran, and went back into business doing various vocations. After ten years, and the birth of a daughter, Sara, he went back to seminary to become a Lutheran pastor. At seminary, he recived an MA in Theology and a Ph.D. in Missiology. Holy Trinity is pastor's first Lutheran congregation. His family arrived in August 1st of 2004. In May of 2009, Pastor Leach became Dr. Leach, receiving his doctorate in Missiology from Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft Wayne, Indiana.
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