Rev. Robert C. Franck to be installed as
Senior Pastor at Mr. Olive Lutheran Church on Nov. 12

Rev. Robert C. Franck will be installed as the Senior Pastor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 2012 East Superior Street, on Sunday, November 12, at 4:00 p.m. The Rev. Donald Fondow, the District President of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Minnesota-North District, will be preaching and presiding at the service. Other local LCMS clergy will also be participating. Members of the surrounding community are cordially invited to attend.

Pastor Franck has served Mount Olive and local colleges and universities for the past 11 ½ years as Associate and Campus Pastor, a position that is being phased out while LCMS campus ministry in Duluth is being restructured. The Senior Pastor position will include a 10% commitment to campus ministry. Other support for campus ministry is being investigated.

Rev. Franck is married to Gayle, and they have seven children ages 2-17. He graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, and graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1991. Prior to moving to Duluth, he served a congregation in northwest Arkansas for four years.