About Eternal Connection

The Eternal Connection is a radio broadcast ministry of St. Mark Lutheran Church in Omaha, NE. The broadcast is hosted by Pastor Eric Jay and Chip Thompson.

Pastor Eric L. Jay
Senior Pastor
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Pastor Jay serves as St. Mark’s Senior Pastor.

A Southern California native, Pastor Jay graduated with a Master’s in Theology and Culture as a student of St Louis Seminary via the Cross Cultural Ministry Pastoral Certification Program (CMC) located at Concordia University in Irvine, California. The CMC focuses uniquely upon equipping pastors to infiltrate strategic urban settings as church planters. Pastor Jay spent the the last 2 years of his seminary training and the first 3 years of ministry as pastor of The Gathering; a church plant of which Pastor Jay was founder. Simultaneously, Pastor Jay served briefly as the Interim Pastor at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Westminster, California. In 2012 he accepted the call to serve as sole pastor of St John’s Lutheran Church in El Segundo, Ca, and served there for 5 years before accepting the call to St. Mark in August 2017.

Pastor Jay and his wife Sarah met at and graduated from the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music (Chapman University in Orange, Ca) with degrees in Music Performance. God has blessed them with three children, their daughter Elizabeth and sons Jesse and Hezekiah.

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Chip Thompson

I graduated from Kearney State College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. I’ve served in various positions in marketing and design over 17 years ago when I started my own firm, Chip Thompson Design.

With my small team, we continue providing design and marketing services for clients across the US including website design, corporate identity design and advertising. My wife, Kelly, handles the day to day accounting and administrative tasks, and my son, Tanner, works for me as a videographer and designer. We’ve had the pleasure of serving some great local and national companies.

In my spare time, I am amateur astrophotographer (taking photos through telescopes of the many wonders of God’s creation in the heavens).

One of my favorite verses, written in St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, sums up the way I try to live life (only imperfectly and only with and through God’s help): “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Connecting People to Jesus is our church tagline, and it is the desire of my heart. God be praised!

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