Our Pastor
Timothy E. Sandeno is originally from southeastern Minnesota. He was baptized in a small country parish of Norwegian Lutherans where his great-grandfather was once the pastor.
Pastor Sandeno completed grade school and high school in California. He earned an Associate of Science degree from Heald College in 1984, a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy in 1989, and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary in 2005. During the past 25 years of Naval service, he has deployed throughout the world and lived in Florida, Texas, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. He continues to serve as a Naval Reservist at a post in the Pentagon.
Pastor Sandeno completed his theological preparation serving as vicar to Grace Lutheran Church in Summerville, South Carolina from 2004 to 2005. There he led the Islands Lutheran Mission in planting Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Charleston, where the weekly public preaching of God’s Word began February 27, 2005.
In April 2005, Grace Lutheran Church called Pastor Sandeno to be mission Pastor to the newly forming Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, where he has been serving since his ordination and installation on July 30, 2005.
Pastor Sandeno resides in West Ashley with his wife Lisa and their children Victoria, Gunder, and Gabrielle. The entire family is excited about the future of Good Shepherd as we seek to nuture all God’s children in faith in Jesus Christ.
