Jennifer Thomas

The Reverend Jennifer J. Thomas serves as Pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Kansas City, MO. She is a graduate of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She received the 2008 Distinguished Alumna Award for the First Decade of Service Award. She is a native of South Dakota and previously served Lake Park Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1998-2007). She and her husband Vance have two children, Peder and Solveig . She enjoys church administration, yoga, swimming, reading mysteries, baking, and playing with her family. She is also Dean of Area Ministry 7, the Kansas City metropolitan congregations of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Thomas is Vice President of Missouri Faith Voices, a state-wide interfaith congregation-based organization working on social justice from a faith perspective.