Pastor Ryan Groh

The Rev. Ryan M. Groh was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on September 21, 1999, to his mother, Elizabeth Groh, and his father, Jeffrey Groh. He was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Moore, Oklahoma.

He attended the preschool and elementary school at St. John’s in Moore, then went on to a local public junior high and high school. He later enrolled at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska, where he met his beautiful wife, Grace. They were married on April 18, 2020, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Missouri. He graduated from Concordia University with a degree in Psychology, having also completed the Pre-Seminary program.

Following graduation, they moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Pastor Groh attended Concordia Theological Seminary. He did his fieldwork at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Ohio City, Ohio, and his vicarage at Faith Lutheran Church in Capistrano Beach, California. He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity and was ordained into the Office of the Holy Ministry on July 12, 2025, at St. John’s Lutheran Church - Schubert in Jefferson City, Missouri.

“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the  way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Dear Saints,

As another school year has begun and the schedules at home fill up, we would do well to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest this text from Deuteronomy. In this text, the Lord has just given the Ten Commandments here in Deuteronomy as He had first given them in Exodus 20, and the children of Israel are to have these words before them at all times, for the Word of God is not to be confined to only being heard and read within the sanctuary; it is to permeate into every aspect of our lives: our raising of children, our homes, our beds, our doorposts, and our gates. Schedules get filled, and life gets busy, but we learn from the Lord’s teaching of Mary and Martha in Luke 10 that the most necessary thing is to be at the feet of Jesus. And what are the ways in which we can be at His feet? We read His Word in our homes and to our children, we hear His Word read and preached in His sanctuary, and we come before His altar to receive His body and blood. May we all make these such things the priority in our lives, lest the cares and riches and pleasures of this life choke out the seed of faith that has been planted in our hearts.

Soli Deo Gloria,

Pastor

September 2026