About Pastor Charles Wiese
Confessional Lutheran conviction rooted in Michigan
Pastor Charles Wiese is based in Michigan, holds a B.A. in Greek, and works a regular full-time job while serving his family and this ministry. Last Christian Ministries grew out of a hard and clarifying season in which his family, along with other families, was forced out of a Lutheran congregation. After going through a formal reconciliation process, he became convinced that synodical structures were not going to deliver real pastoral discipline where it was needed.
Through deeper study of Holy Scripture, Luther, C.F.W. Walther, and Franz Pieper, and through many conversations with other families who had also left, he came to believe that faithfulness to the Lutheran Confessions required beginning a home church for his own household. That conviction was strengthened by years of seeing charitable work opposed or obstructed while serving on different church boards.
At his current job, Pastor Wiese met many Christian African immigrants, and conversations about their lives and needs opened new doors for mercy. Posting about this work on social media led to contact with Kutesa Henry, an orphan serving orphans, widows, and other poor people in Uganda. His work has been independently verified by third parties, and that partnership now stands at the heart of the ministry's efforts to unite confessional Lutheran conviction with tangible Christian mercy.