St. Michael’s Staff

Pastor Phillip Brandt, PhD, has served St. Michael’s since July of 2019. Prior to accepting the call to St. Michael’s he served as a professor at Concordia University in Portland; Pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Roseburg, Oregon; and Pastor of Cross of Christ Lutheran Church and Preschool in Bountiful, UT. In addition to a Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, He holds degrees in Classics from Washington University, St. Louis (MA) and the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK (PhD).

The son of a Lutheran Pastor, he was raised in a parsonage in the Midwest and attended Lutheran parochial schools, college, and seminary in Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. He arrived in Oregon with his Oregon-native bride, Stephanie, in 2000. Stephanie serves as a nurse at a local hospital. Together they raised three children, Samuel, Lydia, and Lucas. They make their home near St. Michael’s in the Cully neighborhood.

Pastor Brandt has cultivated several hobbies including a large garden, woodworking, reading science fiction, hiking, and travel. The picture is from a trip to London. He loves bringing the good news of Jesus to people and while a professor developed a large ministry of providing sermon notes for preachers and other students of God’s Word. You can visit his website at sunday-sermon.com.

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