THE REVEREND JAMES P. MORGAN

The Reverend James P. Morgan was born and raised in New Mexico. When he graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1969, he was sworn in as an officer in the Marine Corps. He served in Virginia, North Carolina, Vietnam, the Pacific Missile Range Point Mugu, California, and Iwakuni, Japan.

In 1977, Pastor Morgan left the Marine Corps to attend Seminary in Berkeley, California. After his ordination as an Episcopal Minister, he served two parishes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1983, he returned to active duty as a Navy Chaplain.

In the Navy, Pastor Morgan served aboard a ship homeported in Japan, then the Marine Boot Camp in San Diego, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and then three years in Sasebo, Japan, near Nagasaki, and, finally, Naval Air Facility Andrews AFB , MD.

After retirement, he served an Episcopal parish in New Mexico, before moving to Stockholm, Maine, to serve Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, in June 1997. Since that time he has often been of service to Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden. Beginning in January, 2006 he will serve as Pastor of Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine, along with serving as Pastor for Trinity Lutheran Church in Stockholm, Maine.