Pastor Ray Wilke

Pastor Ray S. Wilke is a 1970 graduate of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois with a Masters in Divinity. His wife, Lois, went to be with the Lord in February, 2015. She was an RN who served as nursing supervisor at Faith Regional Hospital in Norfolk.  They have three grown children, Tori Sullivan, Ray II, who live with their spouses and children near Norfolk, and Kamryn Green, who with her husband and children live in Fairbanks, Alaska. Pastor Ray and Lois have nine grandchildren.

After serving for seven years as missionaries in the Philippines, Pastor, Lois and family moved to Norfolk where he served as assistant pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in Norfolk. In 1987 he became senior pastor and continues to serve in that capacity. Grace is “a launchpad for God’s Kingdom.”

On August 5, 2017 Pastor Wilke married Judy Wolff of Lincoln, Texas. Judy holds a Master of Education Degree from Texas State University. She taught Pre-K and Kindergarten for thirty-one years in the greater Austin, TX area before retirement in 2010. Pastor Ray and Judy presently live on a farm north of Norfolk.