Rev. Travis Kelly Heide was baptized August 4th, 1991 at First Lutheran Church, Lloydminster; and on June 14th, 2020, he was ordained at his home congregation of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Warman.

Travis earned his Masters of Divinity at Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Edmonton from 2016-2020. While in Edmonton he served as field worker at All Saints Lutheran Church and the South Sudanese Nuer congregation at Grace Lutheran Church. Seminarian Travis Heide served his year of vicarage at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Kitimat/Terrace under Rev. Dr. Alan Visser (†2024) and Rev. Noel Smith. He also served a summer vicarage at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Medicine Hat. 

Travis’ parents are LAMP missionary Rev. Randy and Darlene Heide, and his godparents are Rev. Dan and Aleta Abraham. He resides in Swift Current with his wife Suzanne Heide (Sauer) who grew up in Regina and Estevan.

Our pastor majored in World Languages and Cultures, alongside English and Theatre, at Trinity Western University, Langley. In preparation for seminary Travis studied Biblical Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. During his time between university and seminary, Travis worked as a landscaper in Saskatoon. He also did volunteer work at the Global Gathering Place, a welcome centre for immigrants and refugees. With the GGP Travis helped manage a stage production called Catching Home, in which a cast hailing from China, Spain, the Congo, and the Former Soviet Union (Russia and Ukraine) told their real life stories before an audience.

Travis is a descendant of the Russian Mennonites. In 1875 his great-great grandfather, Peter Hans Heide, immigrated with his family at age 11. The Heide family settled along Northern Manitoba Hague, what is now Saskatchewan. His grandmother, Doreen Heide (Hill), was born on a farm outside Lloydminster.

With Lutheran Bible Translators our pastor travelled to southern Nigeria in order to witness translation at the grassroots level. With seminary president Rev. Dr. James Gimbel his class underwent a travel study in Thailand and Cambodia, visiting significant Eastern religious sites such as the Temple of the Jade Buddha and Angkor Wat.

Our pastor engages himself in writing tracts and essays on liturgy, the Sacraments, and spiritual warfare. His major theological interests are the Old Testament writings, eschatology, predestination, and the Fathers of the Church. Travis’ hobby interests include music, language learning, local tourism, military history, and writing short stories and poetry.

Here are some of Pastor Heide’s favourite books, in no particular order:

On Being a Theologian of the Cross by Gerard Forde

Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

The Hammer of God, Christ’s Church, and Faith Alone: The Heart of Everything by Bo Giertz

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux

The Apostolic Fathers 

The Rule of Saint Benedict 

Admonitions to the Faithful by Francis of Assisi

The Real Luther by Franz Posset

The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and The Duel by Anton Chekhov

Volpone and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre

Moby Dick by Hermann Melville

20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Darth Pelagius by James Lucendo

Luther’s Outlaw God by Steven Paulson

Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig

A Martyr’s Faith in a Faithless World by Bryan Wolfmueller

On Pastoral Rule by Gregory I of Rome

In the Eye of the Storm: A Biography of Gregory the Great by Sigrid Grabner

The Desert Fathers 

Monologion by Anselm of Canterbury

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On the Holy Spirit by Basil of Caesarea

Lectures on the Christian Sacraments by Cyril of Jerusalem

Spiritual Warfare for the Care of Souls by Harold Ristau

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Screwtape Letters, The Magician’s Nephew, and The Cosmic Trilogy by C. S. Lewis