Pastor Mark Lasch has been privileged to serve as Concordia’s pastor since 2005—twenty years of laughter, tears, and a whole lot of grace.
Mark first felt the tug toward ministry at the ripe old age of four while sitting in the pews of St. John’s Lutheran in Hamlin, New York. Pastors kept nudging him along the way—confirmation in 1985, high school in 1990—until the call was unmistakable. He headed to Concordia University Austin (where he met his bride, Catherine), earned his M.Div. at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and accepted his first call to Hope Lutheran in Friendswood, Texas, and then answered God’s call to Bedford in 2005.
Mark and Catherine have been married for thirty years and are the proud (and occasionally exhausted) parents of two sons currently navigating college life.
What Mark loves most about Concordia is simple: what love looks like here. He affectionately calls this congregation “The Island of Misfit Toys,” because everyone is welcome—worn fur, broken springs, missing parts, and all. Here we’re honest about our imperfections and even more honest about the One who makes us whole.
When he’s not preaching, teaching, or visiting folks you’ll find Pastor Mark turning wrenches on his 1978 Datsun 280Z (he’s basically a certified YouTube mechanic at this point), nursing injuries as a recently-broken mountain biker, smoking competition-level pulled pork (an aspiring gift still unfulfilled) or trying to convince himself to get back to the gym as a lapsed fitness enthusiast.
Whoever you are and however broken you feel, you’ll fit right in here.
Come as you are. You’ll fit right in.
Heather is our Office Manager, a sound technician for services, oversees meal support for a local school, handles anything that comes up at Concordia, and she's a wife and mom.
Tanya plays the organ in our Traditional Service and is part of the praise band in the Contemporary Service along with her husband, Lloyd. She also leads a choir during certain parts of the church year.
- Director of Administration
- Director of Music