Background
Wismar, Gregory Just was born on January 9, 1946 in Jersey City. Son of Adolph Harold and Norma Adela (Just) Wismar.
Wismar, Gregory Just was born on January 9, 1946 in Jersey City. Son of Adolph Harold and Norma Adela (Just) Wismar.
Bachelor, Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1967. Master of Divinity, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1971. Master of Science, Southern Connecticut State University, 1977.
Doctor in Ministry, Hartford Seminary, 1990.
Assistant pastor, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Danbury, Connecticut, 1971-1972; pastor, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1972-1978; pastor, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Cape Elizabeth, Maine., 1978-1983; pastor, Messiah Lutheran Church, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, 1983-1987; pastor, Christ the King Lutheran Church, Newtown, Connecticut, since 1987. Vice president New England district Lutheran-Missouri Synod, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1979-1983, member nominations committee, St. Louis, 1985-1986, archivist New England district, since 1989, member of commission on worship, St. Louis, 1990-1995. Research fellow Yale Institute Sacred Music, Liturgy and Arts, 1991.
(Get to know the saints and angels of the Bible and early ...)
Chairman Lynnfield Arts Commission, 1985—1987. Secretary board regents Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, 1998—2001. Guest chaplain United States House of Representatives, Washington, 1977, United States Senate, Washington, 1982.
CT-5 congressional advisory board Waterbury, Connecticut, 1975—1979. Fort Williams committee Cape Elizabeth, 1981—1983. Congressional advisory board Newtown Family Life Center, 1988—1990.
Member of New England Lutheran History Society (vice president since 1999).
Married Priscilla Emily Ames, June 7, 1969. Children: Eric Andrew, Sarah Emily, Elizabeth Victoria, Jessica Eve.