Fr. Ben Webb
Father Benjamin Webb came to St. Luke’s in 1996. He and his wife Sarah are Iowa natives and the parents of three daughters: Hannah, Phoebe and Zoe.
Ben’s undergraduate work was in forestry, ecology and agriculture. Prior to his ordination in 1996, he worked as a public policy researcher for the Iowa Legislature and the Department of Economic Development, as an associate editor of an agricultural trade journal, director of a community foundation, and a consultant to non-profit organizations. He is also the author of a book on spiritual, environmental and community renewal, Fugitive Faith, Orbis Books, 1998.
Ben has the following message:
Luke is our patron saint, and his compelling accounts of the healing power of Jesus and his disciples are still an inspiration to this loving and creative faith community we call St. Luke’s Church in Cedar Falls. In his testimony about Jesus and the early Church, Luke gives us powerful witness to the gracious work the Church is still called to embrace as the body of Christ in our day and place. Very simply, we are called to give ourselves to the task of binding back together that which has come apart in God’s world. In our midst can be found all kinds of people in all kinds of vocations who are doing so.
We invite you to grow with us in spirit, in service and in diversity as we feast on God’s abundant love and prayerfully support one another along the way. You and your ministry are important to us and to God. In the pattern of Christ, we welcome you into this community of healing and reconciling work, where together we help the world to ’see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to perfection by him through whom all things are made.”