Bio: Johnson, Rev. Jeffrey (1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Johnson

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (21 October 1983)

Johnson, Rev. Jeffrey Ferrell

The Rev. Jeffrey Ferrell Johnson of Curtiss is pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Curtiss, and Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Medford. He came July 1 after working for three month's at Copp's Department Store in hometown Beaver Dam and completing seminary at the end of February.

Born September 17, 1951 in Madison, Pastor Johnson received his B.A. degree in religion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1974, and his master of divinity degree this year at Luther Northwestern Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. His ordination occurred June 5, at First Lutheran Church, Beaver Dam. Johnson has a wide variety of work experience -- gas station attendant, dry cleaner, college admissions counselors, migrant housing supervisor, factory worker, bus driver, cook, orderly, stock clerk; has been active in theater -- acting, technical design -- directed several plays for Beaver Dam Community Theater and St. Olaf; spent 1 1/2 years working as a chaplain, first at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, on an Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency Treatment Unit, then at North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he received advanced standing in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education; and did parish internship at St. Thomas Lutheran Church (L.D.A.) in Bloomington, Indiana.

 

 

 


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