Reverend Daniel Preus
Director, Luther Academy

The Rev. Daniel O.S. Preus was born 7 March, 1949 at Mayville, North Dakota, the son of the Rev. Dr. Robert D. and Donna (nee Rockman) Preus. He is married to Linda and has five children: Seth, Rebekah, Erik, Kirsten, and Dirk. He and his wife Linda live in St. Louis, MO. The Preuses also have three grandchildren.

He is a 1975 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, with a Master of Divinity degree, with a concentration in the area of historical theology. He spent one year of college and one year of his seminary training at the Lutherische Theologische Hoschschule at Oberursel, Germany, a school of the Missouri Synod’s partner church, the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. He has a Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) degree from the Fort Wayne Seminary, with a major in historical theology.

Since his ordination in 1975, Pastor Preus has served congregations in Hobart, Indiana; Truman, Minnesota; Oak Park, Illinois and Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1995 he accepted a call to be the Director of Concordia Historical Institute where he served until he was elected First Vice President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 2001. He served as First Vice President of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod until 2004. In March of 2005 he became the first full-time Executive Director of the Luther Academy. Luther Academy publishes Lutheran books and journals and conducts conferences supporting the teaching of historic Confessional Lutheranism.

Since 2005 Luther Academy has been conducting conferences in foreign countries, especially in the third world. Luther Academy now conducts theological conferences for pastors in West Africa, South America, and India, Indonesia and Uganda on an annual basis and hopes to begin work in East Africa and Central America in the near future.

In 2007 Pastor Preus taught for one semester at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. He is also on the pastoral staff at Hope Lutheran Church in St. Louis.

Rev. Preus was the pastoral delegate to the 1981 and 1992 synodical conventions, and has served on the Indiana District Board of Youth, the Board for Parish Services of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and the Synod’s Advisory Committee on Church Literature. He served as Circuit Counselor of the Truman, Minnesota Circuit of the Minnesota South District and has also held the position of pastoral counselor of the Minnesota South District of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. In 1988, he received the Servus Christi Ecclesiae award from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne.

Pastor Preus has authored numerous articles for publication in the Concordia Theological Quarterly, the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, LOGIA and other magazines. In 2004 Concordia Publishing House published his book, Why I Am A Lutheran: Jesus at the Center. This book has now been published in both Swedish and Finnish.

Rev. Preus has been a frequent speaker and lecturer in the congregations and circuits of the Synod as well as at District Conventions and Pastoral Conferences.