Our Staff
Rev. Adam Moline was born and raised in the Lincoln area. He is the son of Robert and Debra Moline. He attended and graduated from Lincoln Lutheran High School in 2002 after which he achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in History at Concordia University Nebraska. He then graduated with a Masters of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
He served as Pastor at the dual parish of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Hankinson, ND and St. John’s Lutheran Church of Belford, ND from 2010 to 2018 at his first call. While there he served in a variety of District Positions, including as the District LWML counselor, Circuit Visitor, and on the District Board of Directors. He has visited Kenya, Germany, and Israel as various parts of his ministry while serving in North Dakota.
In 2018, Pastor Moline accepted the call to serve as Pastor at Good Shepherd, and has been there ever since. He hosts a variety of radio shows on KNNA, and is blessed to preach and teach God’s Word to God’s people.
While at Concordia University, Pastor Moline met his wife Elizabeth. They have four children, Ella, Claire, Gabriel, and Hannah. Pastor Moline enjoys history, fishing, hunting, building things of wood, and travelling with his family.
Rev. Thomas Goodroad began serving Good Shepherd in the summer of 2023.
Thomas was born in March of 1994, the third of four sons of Larry and Kari Goodroad. He was Baptized the same month at Trinity Lutheran Church in Kearney, MO, by Rev. Drew Newman. He grew up on an acreage outside of Holt, MO, and was homeschooled by his mother from preschool through high school graduation. He attended Thomas Edison State University online and graduated with a BA in Psychology. Throughout middle school and high school, he was enrolled in speech and debate classes, during which he met his wife, Marlyse. They married on June 25, 2016. They lived in Polo, MO, for three years while Thomas finished his bachelor’s degree before moving to Fort Wayne, IN, to attend Concordia Theological Seminary. They moved to Lincoln, NE, for Thomas’s vicarage at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, from August 2021 to July 2022. He received a call to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Lincoln, NE, on April 25, 2023, to serve as associate pastor.
Thomas enjoyed growing up in the country and loves a wide variety of hobbies and activities such as reading, writing, tinkering with electronics—such as computers and 3Dd printers—riding motorcycles and ATVs, and creative hobbies—such as woodworking, leatherworking, and resin casting. He and Marlyse love animals and hope to one day have a small hobby farm on which to raise them.
Born August 24th 2001, Vicar Caleb Garman was raised in Ohio his entire childhood, alongside his younger sister and brother. Although he was not raised in the Lutheran Church, at the age of 19 he joined a local Missouri Synod congregation in the Dayton area. He has a Master’s in Social and Applied Economics, which he earned at Wright State University in 2021. He began seminary in the summer of 2023, and was installed as Vicar here at Good Shepherd August 3rd, 2025.
He and his wife, Rachel, met at a wedding in 2024, and hit it off. They got married July 26th 2025, and have settled well into the Lincoln area.
