Meet Rev. Jason Kaspar

I am a Confessional Lutheran Pastor, a member of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). I grew up, the son of a Lutheran teacher. We were always on the move. I lived in 12 cities and towns in the states of TX, KS, MO, MI, MS, and CO. I was a member of 11 LCMS congregations before attending the seminary.

I studied music education at Concordia (University) Ann Arbor, MI and voice performance at Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO. I served as a cantor, choir director, and vocal coach at multiple congregations in the LCMS alongside my careers including mover, CDL driver, sign installer, and oil field cementing and fracturing lab tech.

Currently, I serve as Sole Pastor at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church & Preschool, La Grange, Texas. I was ordained on June 16, 2019 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Battle Creek, Michigan and installed at Mt. Calvary on July 31, 2019. I am a product of the Alternate Route ordination program at Concordia Theological Seminary and revel in the service opportunities the Lord has granted me at this stage of life.

My doubly great grandfather, Rev. Jacob Kaspar, was a Lutheran pioneer missionary pastor from Switzerland to central Texas, serving from 1867-1900. The first church he planted in Freyburg, TX is 12 miles south of us. All three of his calls are less than 80 miles from my current congregation. He rests in Christ at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Anderson, TX. My maternal grandfather, Rev. Melvin R. Boehlke, retired from Bethany Lutheran, Houston, TX. He also served Prince of Peace Lutheran, Belton, TX before receiving his eternal reward.

I’m an avid shooter and an aspiring hunter and fisherman. I’m and experienced cook, enjoying the new culinary frontiers in Central Texas. We recently discovered that the Kaspars are related by my paternal great grandmother and her mother to the Texas Wendish Lutheran immigrants to Serbin, TX of 1854. The doubly great grandmother, Marie Magdalena (Moerbe) Werner was born in 1856 in Serbin, TX, in the second year of the original settlement of Texas Wendish Lutherans. That’s a significant, unknown familial connection to the origin of the Texas district and the Lutheran churches of Fayette, Bastrop, and Lee Counties.

My lovely wife, Mandy, and I were married in 2006 and are enjoying our new lives in Texas.

Rev. Jason Kaspar
Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church & Preschool
La Grange, TX