Pastor Schneider was born and baptized in Peoria, Illinois in 1980. He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in music education, and it was at Wesleyan that he met his wife Robin as her accompanying pianist. He taught junior and senior high school choral music before pursuing a master’s degree in choral conducting at the University of California-Irvine. After graduating from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 2009, Pastor Schneider has served in Omaha, Nebraska and Greencastle, Indiana before following the call to Sherman with Robin and their daughter Lara in 2022.
