Pastor Varsbergs is the pastor of the Chicago Latvian Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church located in the 11th District I am honored to represent. He was born in Latvia. and at the end of World War II. was sent with his family to a displaced persons camp in West Germany. where he received his high school diploma. In 1949. the family emigrated to the United States. where they became sharecroppers in Mississippi. In 1950. Pastor Varsbergs entered Midland College in Nebraska on a $500 scholarship. and after graduation. he attended the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago where he graduated in Pastor Varsbergs founded a summer camp for children and families. and pioneered its summer high school program devoted to Latvian language. cultural heritage. history. and religion.
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