Meet the Pastors of Mount Olive

Rev. Ted Giese has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from NSCAD in Halifax Nova Scotia (1997), a Masters of Theological Studies Degree (2000) and a Masters of Divinity Degree (2007) from Concordia Lutheran Seminary Edmonton Alberta. He has served as a pastor at Mount Olive since 2007. In 2006 he served at Mount Olive as a Seminarian Vicar. 

Congregational life at Mount Olive provides opportunity to preach, teach, and administer the Sacraments (Baptism, The Lord's Supper and Confession and Absolution) as well as conduct weddings and funerals. It is a blessing to visit people in their homes, seniors' homes, and hospitals; and to help people and families with spiritual problems and distress, including but not limited to supernatural concerns often blithely brushed of as "things that go bump in the night." We don’t live in a disenchanted world like the Modernist Materialists teach (Entzauberung) the holy and the demonic, virtue and vice are immediate in our personal lives; the natural the technological the pharmaceutical the scientific and the philosophical are not devoid of a permeating supernatural aspect. If you are interested in the Bible, Spirituality, and or the Sacraments please contact me, I would love to talk with you - maybe go and get some coffee.

Over the last 25 years I have served on various boards and committees in both elected positions and appointed positions in Lutheran Church Canada and as a lecturer and professor for seminaries, lay and pastors’ conferences, as well as youth and young adult events.

Spare time is filled with friends and family, playing board games visiting over a beer or going to the movies. Watching movies is more than simple entertainment; I have a passion for film and enjoy almost all kinds of movies. Film is art, sometimes good sometimes bad, it can be well intentioned or brilliant, it can even be troublesome and thought provoking. Every film is a chance to engage your Confession of Faith with what is on the screen; this is one of the most fascinating elements of film. In the past number of years I've been reviewing movies as a contributor to The Canadian Lutheran, the LCMS Reporter, The Federalist; and have serve for over 10 years as movie reviewer for the “Issues, Etc.” radio program. Find me on Twitter @RevTedGiese and feel free to check out Mount Olive's Movie Review Index for my film reviews and other radio and podcast work.

Yours in Christ Jesus, 
Rev. Ted Giese
Lead Pastor,