The Mid-South District - LCMS

Grace Lutheran Commissions and Installs New Deaconess

Grace Lutheran in Little Rock, AR Commissioned and installed their first ever Deaconess. Deaconess Eileen Esget lives in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas and has begun service to Grace. Her primary duties will be women’s ministries that will include Bible study, visitation as well as a new grief support group and working with various mercy ministries in the Little Rock metro area.

Left to right: Pastor Kent Schaaf of Grace, Little Rock, Deaconess Rachel Fruge of St. Paul Lutheran, Fort Worth, Texas, Deaconess Esget, Deaconess Intern Linda Strubbe of Salem Lutheran Church Jacksonville, IL and Pastor Christopher Esget of Alexandria, VA, who is Eileen’s son and the 5th Vice President of the LCMS.