LAMPa is delighted to announce Bishop Kristen Papson of the NWPA Synod has appointed the Rev. Tom Pierotti to LAMPa’s Policy Council. Pierotti will serve a three-year term.  

Pierotti was ordained in 1976 and has always been interested in social ministry and public policy.  While in seminary he spent two years living in Washington, D.C. while taking classes through the Washington Theological Consortium.  During his years of parish ministry, he developed a course (titled Citizenship and Discipleship) and regularly led confirmation classes on four-day educational trips to Gettysburg Seminary and the District of Columbia where the students interacted with our U.S. Senators and Congressmen and even Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer and Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland. 

Tom has been called to service in the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod, Upstate New York Synod and New England Synod.  In New England he was Vice President for Congregation Relations with Lutheran Social Services of New England.   

“Pastor Tom Pierotti’s ministry has always been about lifting up the voices of others and advocating for their care,” said Bishop Papson.  “In these times, he has invested his energy and gifts into a calling that he is passionate about: caring for refugees in his corner of the synod, finding housing and helping with language barriers, while offering a welcome to those who have been marginalized and are most vulnerable.  I am so excited for him to use his voice to advocate and shape policy on a state level, bringing awareness to causes like these.” 

In retirement, Tom is an active member of First Lutheran Church in Warren, PA and President of the Warren Area Refugee Resettlement Network which has successfully resettled 20 people from Ukraine and soon they hope to welcome their first family from Afghanistan.  Tom is eager to continue working in the area of faith/public policy through LAMPA.