Ken Lentz presently serves as a transition pastor for congregations in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Grand Canyon Synod. During nearly four decades in ministry, he has been the pastor of churches in Florida, California, Michigan, and Ohio; served for six months as the pastor of a 1,000-year-old parish in Buxtehude, Germany; and taught at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Lentz holds degrees from Capital University, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he earned a Th.D. in church history.