Jennifer Anderson Koenig '87

Jennifer Koenig has been the associate college pastor at St. Olaf College since 1997. She choreographed and performed for three years with the professional modern dance company Ballet Harren and later served for three years on the dance and on the fine arts committee at Luther Seminary. Koenig served in parish ministry in Iowa before coming to St. Olaf.

Bruce Benson

Bruce Benson came to St. Olaf as the college pastor in 1981 from parish ministry in Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota. He has served on the Trinity Seminary Board of Trustees and the Advisory Council of the theological journal Word and World. Benson also has authored and reviews a segment of Worship Blueprints, Series B and Gathered to Serve, the Adult Bible Study for the 1992 Augsburg VBS Series. Benson is the writer and on-air host of the national radio broadcast program, Sing For Joy, produced at St. Olaf.

John Ferguson

John Ferguson earned a B.M. from Oberlin College, an M.M. from Kent State University and a D.M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Russel Saunders. Ferguson is one of America's most respected church musicians and teachers. He has been invited as a visiting professor by the faculties of the University of Notre Dame and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He is respected as a fine teacher and performer, and his work as an improviser and leader of congregational song has received national acclaim. Each year he presents many hymn festivals across the country, both for local congregations and professional gatherings. Ferguson is the author of three books, numerous articles and has a large number of published organ and choral compositions.