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Kingdom Expansion
Molly Juntunen
Molly Juntunen - Kingdom Expansion Pastor
Pastor Molly oversees Hope’s satellite congregation ministry; including Lutheran Church of Hope NorthBranch in Ankeny and Immersion, a young adult community meeting at the West Des Moines campus. In addition to being part of Hope’s regular preaching, teaching, and pastoral care team, Pastor Molly leads the development of new satellites, oversees Hope’s growing internship program, and leads teams visioning for other ministry projects that expand Hope outside the walls of the growing West Des Moines campus.

Pastor Molly grew up in northern Minnesota, graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, worked as a youth director, worship leader, and spent two years in mission work with music and ministry teams in Germany, Denmark, and the east African countries of Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya before beginning seminary at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. Molly loves canoeing (though a challenge in Iowa), camping, biking, playing piano and guitar, traveling, fishing, drinking coffee, listening to "A Prairie Home Companion" on NPR, collecting beat-up woodsy furniture and antique copies of "Little Women," and plans one day to become a bush pilot in Alaska...just for fun.
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