Pastor Augusto Riss

Rev. Augusto Riss has served as Associate Pastor since March 2003. He was called by The First Lutheran Church of Boston in 2002 to serve the Brazilian community in the Greater Boston area under the recommendation of Rev. Dr. Carlos W. Winterle, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB), a sister church body of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

Pastor Riss leads the weekly Saturday evening service at 7 PM at The First Lutheran Church of Boston (in Portuguese), and is developing additional worship sites in other communities in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also assists in administering Holy Communion during Sunday English services and has been a guest preacher on several occasions for these services as well.