Meet Our Pastor! 

(Reverend) Adam DeGroot, his wife (Deaconess) Melissa DeGroot, and their son came to Calvary Lutheran in 2020. Pastor DeGroot graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and also received a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education with a focus on English from Black Hills State University. He attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was ordained on July 3, 2010. His first call was to the Parish Ministry in Rochester, New York, and he served from 2010-2014. From 2014 to 2020, he was a Synodical/Domestic Missionary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and South Albuquerque, New Mexico. He reentered Parish Ministry on March 1, 2020, when he was installed as Pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Want to see Pastor DeGroot in action? Check out our YouTube channel here and listen to the Word through his sermons!