It is with a very heavy heart that I announce the death of one of my great mentors here on earth, Reverend David V. Koch.
Pastor Koch graduated from our St. Louis Seminary in 1966. He served as pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Milwaukee (also campus pastor of Concordia College Milwaukee), then of St. John Lutheran Church in Denver. He then accepted the position as Senior Editior at our Concordia Publishing House, from 1990-1994. He then served as Senior Pastor at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan prior to his retirement.
In retirement, he and his wife, Ruth, relocated back to Denver, where they were surrounded by a daughter and son-in-law and their three granddaughters. During these retirement years, Pastor Koch, despite a diagnosis of cancer, served in ministry at vacant congregations.
Despite our human, earthly loss of a brilliant man and a true servant of the Lord Jesus, we celebrate along with Pastor Koch on his attaining his eternal crown awarded him by his Savior, Jesus.
May God comfort all of us who mourn Pastor Koch's death.
Pastor Christopher Schaar