REV NANCY M RAABE (b. 1954), has been the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church Hatfield PA, since July 2021.
Nancy Raabe is an energetic and creative leader of Christian worship. She specializes in incorporating music and the liturgical arts into worship services. She is known as an empathetic servant leader, an effective preacher, and as a thoughtful teacher for those of all ages.
Pastor Nancy Raabe is a leader in developing and presenting online worship opportunities, to complement in-person services. Here is a sample of Pastor Raabe leading the Compline service.
Pastor Raabe has been successful in developing sound mission-based plans so that her congregations can grow and thrive in a sustainable manner. Further, Nancy strives to involve her congregation in the activities of the surrounding community.
Rev Nancy M Raabe is an author, worship leader, and composer of church music. Her piano, organ, vocal, choral works, and books have been published by Augsburg Fortress, Choristers Guild, MorningStar Music, Concordia, Hope Publishing, Lutheran University Press, and Northwestern.
Called Positions
Pastor, Grace Lutheran Church, Hatfield PA, 2021 -
Pastor, Holy Trinity Lutheran, Marshall WI, 2018 - 2021
Pastor, Atonement Lutheran, Beloit, WI, 2016 - 2018
Associate in Ministry, Luther Memorial, Madison WI, 2014 - 2016
Pastor Raabe is the President of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She also is designated as a chaplain for the Association's members, supporting and advising those who serve the church through its liturgies and music. ANNOUNCEMENT WELCOME VIDEO
Nancy Raabe is a 2022 Engle Preaching Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her studies of the preaching ministry included work at the Festival of Homiletics in 2015.
Pastor Raabe's complete musical setting of a Christian funeral liturgy, Life Is Ours Eternally, was presented at the 2010 Valparaiso University Institute for Liturgical Studies (ILS). Nancy's musical compositions for the baptism liturgy were featured at the 2018 ILS.
In November 2015, Nancy Raabe received the Award of the Concordia Historical Institute recognizing the importance of her book, Carl Schalk: A Life in Song, in carrying forward the legacy of the Lutheran Church in this country.
Pastor Raabe's original arrangement of I Dream A World was a finalist for first prize at the 2010 Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival.
In the 1990s, Nancy Raabe taught the courses Music Theory and Women in Music at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Rev Nancy M Raabe is available for speaking, writing, and guest-preaching engagements, and by commission to create musical works and texts for specific occasions and events. Contact Nancy to discuss these opportunities with her.
In 1997, Bill and Nancy Raabe endowed an award to recognize excellence in compositions of sacred music. The Raabe Prize is given biennially by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.
Bill and Nancy Raabe have commissioned about eighty hymn settings, concertatos, anthems, and other music for the church at large. Here is a summary of those commissioned works. Nancy discussed the commissioning project at the 2015 Good Shepherd Institute. Bill discussed the project in the ALCM newsletter.
Nancy M Raabe is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pomona College in music (1977), and of Trinity Lutheran Seminary (OH) with two graduate degrees in theology. In 2017, Nancy completed the requirements for her ordination at Wartburg Theological Seminary (IA). She also is a doctoral candidate in musicology at Brandeis University (MA).
Nancy was the classical music critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel and for the Birmingham News. Her articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, American Music Guide, Opera News, Columbus Dispatch, and Playbill.
Nancy M Raabe is the founding editor of the ALCM newsletter In Tempo, in which appeared her column Prairie View. Her column Both Sides Now appears in In Tempo, and her monthly column Faith and Culture appeared in the Beloit Daily News. Pastor Raabe is a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Church Music.
Rev Nancy M Raabe lives in Philadelphia with her husband Bill Raabe, a retired academic. They have two adult children, daughter Margaret (Philadelphia), and son Martin (Minneapolis).
In August 2018, Margaret Raabe married Greg Van Horn.
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In May 2020, Martin Raabe married Bekah Engstrand.
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