Leadership

Pastor Kieser is associate pastor at Faith Lutheran Church of Plano, Texas and headmaster of the congregation’s school. He previously served as teacher and administrator at Lutheran schools in Florida and Illinois. He also served as pastor in Storm Lake, Iowa and Darmstadt, Indiana.

Pastor Kieser graduated from Concordia – Ann Arbor in 1993 and received a Master of Arts in School Leadership from Concordia – Chicago in 2000. He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in 2006 and was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry that same year. He has served as the president of the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education since 2006.

Pastor Paul lives in Houston, Texas and holds a BA from Concordia College, New York, Bronxville, New York (2008); M Div and STM from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana (2012 & 2013); and is currently doing PhD coursework at Concordia Seminary, St Louis, Missouri.

Pastor Paul currenltly serves as Associate Pastor and Headmaster at Memorial Lutheran Church and School, Houston, Texas.

 I am married to Jocelyn and we have been given four children; Asher, Malachi, Ephraim, and Miriam. I grew up on a farm in South Dakota and have a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from South Dakota State University. I serve as Executive Director of Wittenberg Academy and provide for my family through a secular job in Quality Management for a food company. My wife and I started Wittenberg Academy in 2011 and since then have attended each CCLE conference since then. We have brought teachers from our school to each conference starting in 2013 each year through the most recent conference. Our school was first accredited in 2014. CCLE has been an important part of our journey in starting an online Lutheran school and in home educating our children.

Rev. Paul J Cain was born in Burwell, Nebraska and currently lives in Sheridan, Wyoming with his wife, Ann. Pastor Cain attended the University of Nebraska and went on to Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He has been a rostered member of the LCMS since 2000 years and has served three congregations, his current congregation being Immanuel Lutheran Church in Sheridan, Wyoming. He served as Headmaster of the school affiliated with his church, Martin Luther Grammar School and Immanuel Academy for thirteen years and still teaches guitar and public speaking and leads chapel. Pastor Cain serves in several other capacities in addition to his pastoral vocations. He is First Vice-president of the LCMS Wyoming District and is Chairman of the District Board of Directors. He has been active in Jail Ministry.

Anna Martin lives in the Dallas, TX area with her husband, Jeff, and their three daughters. She is originally from East Sussex, England. Prior to moving to Texas in 2019, she and her family lived in the Washington, DC area for 18 years, the last seven of which she homeschooled their three children and also served as the founder/executive director of The Orchard Classical Community, a large homeschool campus in Purcellville, VA. She has a master’s degree in modern history and a joint-honours bachelor’s degree in English literature and history from Leeds University, United Kingdom. She also has a master’s degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Prior to having children, she worked as an administrator in both federal government and nonprofit contexts including several years working for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) defending constitutional rights at America’s colleges and universities. 

Jackquelyn Veith lives in Blackwell, Oklahoma and is married to Gene Edward Veith. They have three adult children and twelve grandchildren. She earned her BS from the University of Oklahoma, her MS from Concordia University Wisconsin, and her Ed.D. from Shenandoah University. After academic careers in Wisconsin and Virginia, they moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma, to retire near grandchildren. Based on her teaching experience (25 years in K-12; 8 years in higher education) she knows classical education is a stronger approach than current practices. She supports the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education (CCLE) through school accreditation and teacher certification processes. She is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Blackwell, Oklahoma.

Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is a writer and a retired literature professor.  He is Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College and the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  He previously served as Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE and Professor of English and Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University Wisconsin. He is the author of 28 books, including Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, Classical Education, and God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life.

Gabriel Haley is an associate professor of English at Concordia University, Nebraska, with research and teaching emphases in medieval and renaissance literatures, world literatures, and poetry. He has held teaching positions at the University of Virginia, Concordia College New York, and the Evanjelické Lýceum in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has published on the English and Latin poems of Charles d’Orléans, on the influence of the phenomenologist Rudolf Otto on the educational theories of C. S. Lewis, and on the role of Dante’s poetry in the television series Mad Men. His ongoing research project, tentatively titled “Secularized Contemplation,” considers late medieval efforts to fashion a contemplative poetics outside of an ordered religious life.

Nathaniel Pullmann is a husband and the father of six children. He and his wife are both graduates of the finest liberal arts college in the country, Hillsdale College. He has spent nearly a decade developing classical, Christian education options in Fort Wayne. In 2012, he founded the first Classical Conversations group in the area, starting a movement that has grown into half a dozen classical homeschool communities in the area, educating hundreds of students. In 2017, he founded and opened Redeemer Classical School, the first classical Christian school in the Fort Wayne area. He is the headmaster of the school and a teacher there. Under his leadership, the school has grown every year since opening, quadrupling the number of students and faculty. He has also consulted with several other schools that are in the process of making their education more classical and with several groups that are trying to start new classical, Christian schools.