Raised in Auburn, Indiana, he attended Concordia High School and Junior College in Milwaukee, WI. Then he attended Concordia Senior College in Ft. Wayne, IN. He did field work at Emmaus Lutheran Church, St. Louis, MO. and vicared at Hope Lutheran Church in Whittier, CA. He is a 1978 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. Pastor Koenig has served St. Paul Lutheran Church, Lakeland, FL, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Southaven, MS, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Sarasota, FL and Grace Lutheran Church, Port St. Lucie, FL. In his nearly thirty years of ministry he has served as a Circuit Counselor in the Southern District and in the FL-GA District of the LCMS. He has also served on the District Outreach Committee of the FL-GA District. He has taken Clinical Pastoral Education courses, and is trained as a Stephen Leader in the Stephen Ministry Program. Along with other clergy, he worked to establish the Southaven Samaritan, an ecumenical social services agency. Other highlights are two trips to the Holy Land and a mission trip to Haiti.

He and his wife Betty have three grown married children and four grandchildren.

Hobbies include golf, crafts, walking the beach and reading.

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