The congregation at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo recently welcomed their student pastor for the summer months.
My wife Adelia and I visited with Dave Loew, his wife, Dawn, and their young son, Elijah, last Wednesday afternoon to gett better acquainted. They live at 75 Colonization Rd, in Emo (the trailer across from Emo arena).
Pastor Loew was born in the spring of 1977 in Bozeman, Mich. to Kathy and Jim. He also has a sister and brother, Lori and Philip.
“It was a beautiful place that I am continually drawn to over the course of my life,” he said, adding family later moved to Fennville, Mich. in 1982 because his father took a job there as a farm manager.
His mother took a position as a teacher there.
Pastor Loew’s sister is now in upper management in a Muskegon hospital, where she lives with her husband, Allen, and two beautiful daughters, Lisa and Ashley.
His brother lives in Traverse City with his wife, Laurie, and three great little boys, Jake, Nick, and Ben.
Pastor Loew met his future wife in Grand Rapids.
“I felt the call to the ministry early in my life as an altar boy in the Catholic church,” he recalled. “I am living proof that one does not do well when we run from God.
“I was eventually drawn back to Jesus in my senior year of college as a evolutionary biology major,” he added, and decided that God was calling him into the ministry.
“I have found that it is best to do what we are made to do and not what we or anyone else wishes we would do,” he reasoned.
Pastor Loew said he and his family are excited about serving at the Emo C.R.C. this summer and look forward to meeting as many people as possible.
“Your country has many wonderful people and consider you a good friend of the north,” he noted, adding he loves hockey.
“Come on down to Emo C.R.C. and visit if you like,” Pastor Loew concluded. “I would like to chat with you.”
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