Our Pastors

Pastor Dick Johnson “P J”

Pastor JohnsonPastor Johnson began his ministry at Mount Carmel in the spring of 2007. He is married to Annette, who is an accountant at Lutheran Social Service of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. They have three children, Matthew who lives and works in Chicago, Jeremy, and Jenna who is a Graduate Student at Marquette University. Pastor and Annette live in Wauwatosa close by Mount Carmel.

Pastor Johnson has served 30 years as a pastor of the ELCA. He loves parish ministry. He understands the congregation as a servant community where through Word and Sacrament we are regularly touched by God’s grace and inspired by the Holy Spirit to be the compassionate “Hands of God” reaching out to those in our community with love, care, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Dick and Annette Johnson are both originally from Glen Ellyn, IL. Pastor Johnson attended Carthage College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He has served as pastor of St. Mark, Cape Girardeau, MO, Zion in Kewanee, IL, and St. Timothy in Naperville, IL before Mount Carmel. You may reach him by contacting the church at (414) 771-1270, ext. 11, his home phone 414-774-3407, or by e-mail at pastorjohnson@mountcarmelchurch.org.

Pastor Pam Lange

Pastor Pam Lange began serving as Associate Pastor of Mount Carmel Church in December 2011.  She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in spring of 2009.  Since her seminary graduation, Pastor Pam served as Interim Associate Pastor at Ascension Lutheran Church in Waukesha and also served a one year term call as Pastor of Bethania Lutheran Church in Racine.   She was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in November 2010.

Pastor Pam grew up in Menomonee Falls and raised her own family in Wauwatosa.  She now lives in ‘Grace Place’ where she is visited regularly by her three children  – Lindsey, Kevin and Michael – as well as with her grandchildren and favorite playmates – Shawn, Emma and Charlotte.

Before entering seminary, Pastor Pam had been employed for twenty years as sales coordinator for a local construction machinery dealership and most recently as executive assistant to the president of a graphic arts firm located in Brookfield.   In her home church, Jackson Park Lutheran, she served in a wide range of leadership roles and also served on staff there as Parish Education Coordinator.   She deeply believes that each of us, by virtue of the Holy Spirit poured out in baptism, is created and called to love and serve God.  She sees one of her primary roles as pastor to be that of helping others identify and release their own gifts into the world for the purposes of  God.

Pastor Pam may be reached via email at pastorpamlange@gmail.com or  by phone either through the office at 414-771-1270 x 12 or on her cell phone at 414-640-8940.