Pastor Brett came to All Saints Lutheran Church in September 2025. Prior to being installed to shepherd this congregation, Pastor Brett was a member of All Saints. He experienced God’s call to ministry in 2021 while he was working on advocacy and completing a program in Christian
education and leadership. He graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2025. His area of concentration was Systematic Theology. 

Pastor Brett has been married to his wife, Susan, since 2013. They have a blended family with three adult boys, three very active grandchildren, two dogs, four cats, and an aquarium full of fish. He loves reading and spending time outdoors.

He was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1969, and was raised in Kent, Ohio. Pastor Brett joined the U.S. Army in 1988, where he served at Fort Bragg, NC, as a combat medic, a paratrooper, a flight medic, a squad leader, and platoon sergeant. Pastor Brett is a veteran of the First Gulf War. He finished out his almost nine years of service in the Army as a practical nurse at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. 

After leaving the Army in 1997, Pastor Brett completed his degree in nursing from Excelsior University in New York and became a registered nurse. He served as a nurse for 24 years in the Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Tampa regions. Pastor Brett worked in critical care, trauma, emergency, and neurotrauma/neurosurgical nursing. He has experience in management and process improvement. Through his experience in nursing, Pastor Brett grew to love and value all people because all people, without exception, are made in God’s own image and loved by God. 

Pastor Brett believes that God’s love calls to all people through Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. He has a passion for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. Pastor Brett has a deep compassion for the suffering, the marginalized, and the poor. Having experienced trauma in his
own life, Pastor Brett is especially interested in ministry for those who have experienced trauma
and moral injury. He believes that God understands and stands in solidarity with us through all aspects of life, even in our pain and suffering, because Jesus experienced all of these things in his life on earth.