Parsonage in a Pear Tree: Lighthearted Glimpses at Life in a Small Town Pastor's Family

Book by Janssen, Arlo T

ARLO T. JANSSEN, born and reared in a Lutheran parsonage in Odessa, Minnesota, taught in parochial schools in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. After graduating from Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, in 1955, Arlo served parishes in Indiana and Pennsylvania. Moving to Arizona in 1962, he directed the Mule Mountain Christian Youth Camp in Bisbee and attended the University of Arizona, earning two more degrees. From 1966 to 1999 Janssen taught English and speech at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, and wrote textbooks for teaching English as second language. Living today in Benson, Arizona, with his wife, Ofelia, he still writes and assists in Lutheran parishes, including a Spanish-language parish in Tucson. After all these years, Janssen loves most to write and talk about growing up in a parsonage in the village of Odessa, in western Minnesota, near the South Dakota border.