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Pastor Peter Ledic is a native of Chicago, IL, his family having emigrated from Croatia just prior to his birth in 1956. That confluence explains his fierce loyalty to the hapless (not so hapless this year though) Chicago Cubs and the Croatian soccer team. His mortal inspirations into the ministry were his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Goettel, and his local pastor, the Reverend Ralph Pomeroy of Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Pastor Ledic met his wife, Jean, while attending Concordia Junior College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They continued on together to Concordia Teacher's College, River Forest, Illinois, before they graduated and married.

In 1978, Pastor Ledic entered Concordia Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. During the four year program, he vicared at Grand Junction, Colorado. Upon receiving his Master of Divinity Degree, his first call was to Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Harrow, Ontario and he was ordained at his home congregation in Chicago.  Five years later he accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Decatur, Indiana. While there he served as Circuit Counselor, became closely involved with the Russian Mission Project and also taught at Concordia Theological Seminary.

Pastor Ledic has served at Messiah since August of 1999. Services are on Sunday mornings and Thursday night; Bible Classes Sunday, Sunday night and Wednesday mornings. Peter Ledic has been a stalwart of theological purity during his Danville tenure. He thrives on Confirmation and Bible Class instruction.

Philip (25), Luther (23), Theo (20) and the ever-enduring Jean, survive Pastor Ledic's presence.  His outside interests include tennis, golf and reading.

We celebrated Pastor Ledics 25 Ordination Anniversary on Octobrt 14, 2007at Messiah Lutheran.  This was a fun event held concurrently with the 2007 Oktoberfest!.  Click here to see the slide presentation put together by Bill DeHope for this memorable event.