Ivan E. Greuter

The Reverend Doctor Ivan E. Greuter, Senior Minister at West Side Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.  He is a Reformed Preacher, Trinitarian Thinker, and Spiritual Writer. A native of Nebraska, Ivan grew up on the Great Plains where he received his call to the ministry at an early age.  After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Ottawa University, Ks.; he earned the Master of Arts in Philosophical Theology and Master of Divinity degrees at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary before being ordained by the American Baptist Churches USA in 1999.  He earned the the Doctor of Ministry degree at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Iowa.  His dissertation: "Searching for God When You've Lost Your Dogma." www.lostyourdogma.com.  Ivan previously served the First Baptist Church of Wood River, Illinois; and Central Baptist Church in Quincy, Illinois before being called to West Side Baptist.  Rexanne, his wife, and Ivan have three children -- two girls and a boy.