	Meet Pastor Fauske
I was born and grew up in Minnesota and Iowa and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN where I met my wife Christine. I then attended graduate school at the University of Iowa and received my M.Div. from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1972. We left the snowy sub-zero temps of the Twin Cities for the beaches and palm trees of my first Call to a church in Los Angeles. From there I served congregations in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California and as Senior Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Mercer Island for 18 1/2 years. Sandwiched between calls to congregations was a 2 1/2 year as Director El Camino Pines Lutheran Camp in Southern California and Assistant Director of the Southern California Lutheran Camping Association. Chris and I were blessed with two sons: Matthew who is married to Tessa and who has two daughters, Emily (5) and Siri (2), and Joshua who is engaged to Lindsey. Matt works for a Bellevue-based software company but runs their southwestern sales program from Farmington, UT where they live. Josh retired from professional baseball a year ago and works in the Chicago area and lives in the Loop and will be married next summer. Chris is the President/CEO of the British-American Business Council of the Pacific Northwest and serves on several international trade boards.
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Meet Pastor Fauske

I was born and grew up in Minnesota and Iowa and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN where I met my wife Christine. I then attended graduate school at the University of Iowa and received my M.Div. from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1972. We left the snowy sub-zero temps of the Twin Cities for the beaches and palm trees of my first Call to a church in Los Angeles. From there I served congregations in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California and as Senior Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Mercer Island for 18 1/2 years. Sandwiched between calls to congregations was a 2 1/2 year as Director El Camino Pines Lutheran Camp in Southern California and Assistant Director of the Southern California Lutheran Camping Association.

Chris and I were blessed with two sons: Matthew who is married to Tessa and who has two daughters, Emily (5) and Siri (2), and Joshua who is engaged to Lindsey. Matt works for a Bellevue-based software company but runs their southwestern sales program from Farmington, UT where they live. Josh retired from professional baseball a year ago and works in the Chicago area and lives in the Loop and will be married next summer. Chris is the President/CEO of the British-American Business Council of the Pacific Northwest and serves on several international trade boards.

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