Chaplain Thomas House has served as the Enid Fire Departments Volunteer Chaplain since 2013.  He is currently the Pastor at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Enid, OK.  Chaplain House has a bachelors degree from Concordia Teachers College Seward, NE and a Masters of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne IN.  He has been a pastor for 20 years serving parishes in Brownsville, Dallas and Plano, Texas as well as in Hooker OK.  Prior to entering Church Work he was a Post Attach Command Control Technician in the United States Air Force as well as another 9 years as an aircraft crew chief in Air National Guard and Air Force Reserves. 

Chaplain House served 9 years as volunteer firefighter with the Hooker Fire Department and 6 years as an Emergency Medical Responder with the Hooker EMS department.  He has also served as a Texas Wing Civil Air Patrol chaplain for 7 years.  He is active with the Boy Scouts of America, Cimarron Council as a member of the councils Executive Board.

Chaplain House is a member of the Federation of Fire Chaplains and Oklahoma Fire Service Chaplains.  He has received CISM Training and Suicide Prevention Training.

He is married to Audrey, a teacher in the Enid Public Schools and they have two boys.