Pastor John Eric Lamb
A little bit about myself:
I was born in Plattsburgh, New York along the beautiful Lake Champlain. We lived on a dairy farm.
After graduating from Northern Adirondack High School, I attended Houghton College in western New York State. I graduated with a BA in literature in, the year of the USA bicentennial.
After a year back on the family dairy farm I decided it was time to go west, to Los Angles for teaching, seminary, and enjoy the west coast.
I lived in El Salvador in Central America. First I was a volunteer at an orphanage where four Catholic women, Jean Donavan, Maura Clark, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel had been murdered the previous year. My understanding of Christianity was profoundly changed forever by that experience.
For one year I taught at an international elementary school in San Salvador. For three years I was a volunteer with Lutheran World Relief and worked with Bishop Medordo Gomez of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church.
In the late 1980’s I returned to graduate study, this time on the east coast at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. My internship year was in the South Bronx with Pastor Heidi Neumark.
My ordination was on August 5. My first parish was San Pablo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I served at Redeemer and Our Saviour churches, both in Harrisburg.
The highlight of my ministry in Puerto Rico was meeting and then later marrying Maritza Robert in November. Ten months later our son Robert was born in Harrisburg, PA.
I am enjoying serving here at St. Luke's.
Sincerely,
Your Pastor
