Pastor Adam Chandler

Pastor Adam Chandler was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. While there, he studied Civil Engineering. Not long after, he took a year abroad to obtain an Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions in Barcelona and Prague. Off on his own in Europe, Adam felt how necessary a proper devotional life and a good church family are and began to experience a pull toward seminary. Pastor Chandler graduated from Concordia Lutheran Seminary in Edmonton in 2020. He was ordained at his home congregation of Foothills Lutheran Church in Calgary that year on June 19 and then installed in at Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church in Victoria on July 21.

Pastor Chandler has gladly taken up preaching and teaching the Word of God and administering the Sacraments at Hope Lutheran. One of his favorite things to do in the parish is study and instruct in Christian Apologetics, the defense of the faith. Pastor Chandler is an avid philosophizer with special interest in ethics, philosophy of mind, ontology, and epistemology. He also indulges in nerdy habits and can go from talking about major moral quandaries one moment to comics in the next. Among other interests, Pastor Chandler enjoys history, literature, and traveling (been in 17 sovereign states and counting).

Feel free to come in for a chat or long discussion. Pastor Chandler’s door is always open to those who wish to learn and grow in the faith, nourished by the Word of our Lord.

Church Secretary Theodora Henry

Theodora L Henry moved to Victoria in 1986 to pursue her career in Dietetics.  She became a member of Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church in June of 1999.  Since joining the family of Hope, she serves in the Altar Guild, became a member of Hope’s LWMLC Society, and now learning new skills with the Chimes Choir.  And in 2017, not quite ready to settle into retirement life, accepted the Church Secretary position.  When she is not in the office, she enjoys travelling, reading, sewing, knitting and spoiling her two dogs.