John (Tika) Gurung (email) has lived in the United States for a number of years after arriving as a refugee from Nepal/Bhutan. John is a gifted worship leader and regularly plays the guitar and leads songs in the Nepali language. He is a student in the Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) program at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and serves as a vicar at Ascension. Upon his completion of the EIIT program, he will be one of the first Nepali pastors in the LCMS. Please keep John, and his studies, in your prayers! John and his wife, Dil, have two sons. Their oldest attends Word of Life Lutheran School.