Pastor Gabi

Hi! My name is Gabi Aelabouni, and I am the pastor at Faith Lutheran Church in Brookfield. I am really excited to begin blogging on the Faith Lutheran website. In my blog entries, I hope to share with you more about who I am: my thoughts, beliefs, and what’s going on in this community of faith. Faith Lutheran Church is a very welcoming congregation, open to all; and in that spirit, I invite members, guests and visitors to visit our site www.faithinbrookfield.com to get to know us a little bit better by keeping up with our blogs. I’d like to use this first entry to tell you a little bit about myself. I was born and raised a Christian in the Galilee region of Israel, where Jesus grew up and did a lot of his ministry. My life was not quite as miraculous as Jesus! But I do believe God has been active in my life through the work of the Holy Spirit. In 2001, after graduating college, I moved to the U.S. to start seminary at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. This was the first step in my journey to becoming an ordained Lutheran pastor. I graduated in 2005 and was ordained in the same year. I have been serving as pastor at Faith Lutheran Church in Brookfield since 2005. I have also served Lutheran congregations in Michigan (on internship) and in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. In 2006 I married my wife, Meghan, and last fall we were blessed with the birth of a beautiful child. Some things you may not know about me are: I worked as a lifeguard through high school and college; I love to play the dumbek, a Middle Eastern drum; I speak Arabic and Hebrew in addition to English; and I love movies, travel, and cooking. I am looking forward to continuing to share with you in this blog, and I invite you to share your comments and questions!

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