Reclaiming the Lutheran Biblical View of Healing Ministry

January 18 - 26, 2005 throughout our PSW District

Bill Dasch - an Introduction

"All people can pray for healing because it is God who heals!" With those words, Dr. Bill Dasch challenges people today to lay hands on the sick and pray for healing. He personally has seen God heal heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, constant pain, life-threatening blood clots, headaches, tumors, fevers, and much more. His own son, Tristen, at age eight, was diagnosed with leukemia. He will tell you his journey and how, when medicine struggled, God prevailed in answer to prayer.

A cutting edge leader in healing prayer ministry, Bill Dasch never promises healing but seeks the Healer, Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit. He introduced healing prayer to St. Mark Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas; a mega church five years ago. In three years, St. Mark became a church of prayer. He moved to St. John Lutheran Church, Mansfield, Texas and has just begun a Healing Prayer ministry there. Already God is doing great things through the ministry of prayer.

Who is Bill Dasch? Born in 1946 in Jennings, Louisiana, Bill Dasch attended Concordia College, Austin, Texas and graduated from Southwest Texas State University in 1969 with a degree in Speech and History. He attended and graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois in 1973. While serving as pastor of a town-gown church in Commerce, Texas, he received his Masters in Counseling and later a doctorate in counseling. He has served as Minister of Singles and Counseling and as Sr. Pastor at St. Mark Lutheran Church, Houston and is now serving St. John, Mansfield, Texas.

Bill has published articles in the Lutheran Witness and numerous newspapers. He has led singles, pastoral and lay conferences in Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Nebraska, Florida, Ohio, and Canada.

His wife, Sheila, is a strong supporter of healing prayer. He has three sons, two at home and one in Ventura, California.

When asked about the upcoming workshops for pastors and lay people, Bill stated, "I am amazed at what God does through ordinary people. I pray that people will experience the extraordinary and realize God may have meant this to be the ordinary. These workshops are meant to help people recover the healing ministry of Jesus Christ in light of our Lutheran understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Come and be amazed!"

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