Kendra is pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Fort Worth, TX. She has served in a variety of capacities in the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of the ELCA, including Chair of the Leadership Development Team, Faculty at the Parish Lay Mission Academy, and Keynote Bible Study Leader at Synod Assembly. She coordinates the John H. Tietjen Speaker Series at Trinity, is a frequent presenter and teacher, and works as an academic mentor for seminarians in the TEEM program, an alternative ordination track for emerging ministries in the ELCA. Kendra holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, where she has also taught courses. Her academic work focuses on how gender, empire, and power intersect in the New Testament. She also holds degrees from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN (MDiv), the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (MA-Historical Musicology), and Luther College, Decorah, IA (BA-Cello Performance and Communication/Linguistics). She is a current member of the Board of Regents for Texas Lutheran University. Kendra is married to Rev. Erik Gronberg, Bishop of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of the ELCA.