Was
born and raised in southwestern Minnesota. After
attending Mankato State College, he attended
Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield,
Illinois. His first call was to Immanuel
Lutheran Church in Osceola, Iowa. While he was
there, a new church was built and a new mission
started twenty miles south in Leon, Iowa. He was
then called to Faith Lutheran Church in
Oakville, Missouri, and started a mission church
off that congregation - Pastor Baumgarn has been
at Trinity
Lutheran Church in St. Francis for 21 years.
In District and Synod work, he was Dean of a
district high school camp for eight years,
Chairman of Synod's Youth Board for ten years,
and Vice-President of a district for six years.
He received the Servus Ecclesiae Christi Award
from the Fort Wayne Seminary in 1981 and
presently serves on the Board of Regents at
Concordia Theological Seminary at Fort Wayne.
Rev. Baumgarn has spoken at LLL and LWML
gatherings and for other groups in the areas of
evangelism, youth work, Satanism, etc. He
recently served on the Synod’s "150th
Anniversary Committee" and the "Church
Growth Study Committee".
His family is made up of his wife, Carol, who
teaches in Trinity’s Christian school, and
their four boys, of which the oldest is married
with two children and attending the seminary at
Ft. Wayne, the second is married with four
children and is the Associate Pastor at Trinity
in St. Francis, the third son is the Art
Director and layout person for Good News
magazine, and the fourth son works in
Minneapolis directing group homes. |
