Conference Chaplain: Pastor Amanda Zentz

The Rev. Amanda Zentz is the pastor at Central Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon.  With a passion for baptism and funerals and a love for liturgy, Pr. Amanda digs deep into the traditions of the church to teach the deeper meanings of our ritualized actions.  Growing up outside of the church, Amanda was baptized on December 14, 1997 while studying for her undergraduate degree in Theatre Arts from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. Amanda went on to receive her MDiv from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berekeley, CA in 2004.  She was ordained into service in the ELCA in 2005.  She is currently in her third call, having served in Medford, OR and Mount Vernon, WA before her call in 2013 to Portland.

Walking as an ally for many years, Pr. Amanda is honored to serve an RIC congregation with passion around welcoming all people to congregational life.  She continues to learn and grow in what it means to serve as a public advocacy voice for the LGBTQ community, and other minority groups. Amanda also happens to skate modern Women's Flat Track Roller Derby under the name FeeNix.  (For we proclaim that, in his death, Christ Nixed the Fee for our salvation.)