About Salem
Beginnings
Over one hundred years ago there was laid a foundation built in the love of God, the love of our fellow man and a strong conviction that with the help and guidance of the Lord nothing is impossible. That foundation laid in 1902 stands today as a shining memorial in a turbulent world. A foundation laid by weak human beings whose trust and faith in God has built a solid and strong Christian edifice - The Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Our Pastors
Rev. Michael Thomas has served as Senior Pastor
of Salem Lutheran since 2001. He was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew
up in Detroit, Michigan. He returned to Columbus for his
undergraduate work at Capital University and attended Trinity
Seminary in Columbus where he received his Master of Divinity in
1976. He
and his wife, Jackie, who teaches secondary education in Omaha
Public Schools, have three sons. Pastor Thomas serves on the Board
of Directors for
Rotary, is President of the board of Habitat for Humanity in
Fremont, is a part of the Fremont Ministerium and belongs to the
Reformation Cluster of the Nebraska Synod.
Rev.
Delvin Hutton began his ministry at Salem in March of 2003
where he serves as the visitation Pastor. Rev. Hutton is a native of
Auburn, Nebraska who grew up in San Diego, California. He attended
Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, Pacific Lutheran University in
Tacoma, Washington; Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa;
and the Divinity School of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1964
and began teaching at Dana College in Blair in the fall of that same
year. For thirty-five years, Dr. Hutton served as Professor of Greek
and Religion at Dana until his retirement in 1999. In addition to
teaching at Dana, Dr. Hutton served as an adjunct faculty member at
Central Lutheran Seminary, Midland Lutheran College, Wartburg
Theological Seminary, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Among Dr. Hutton's
professional interests is Biblical archaeology and he has
participated in excavating three ancient sites in Israel.