Pastor Bolte was born in 1963 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is married to his wife, Roxanne, for 30 years, and they have two daughters, Kristen and Taryn. They live in Litchfield Park. Pastor Bolte attended Concordia College, River Forest, Illinois, in 1982-1986, graduating with an elementary education degree. He went immediately to Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, (1986-1990) where he graduated with a Masters of Divinity. He was ordained into the ministry of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 1990, and has served at Zion Lutheran Church in Pierce, Nebraska (1990-1995) and Trinity Lutheran Church, Litchfield Park, AZ (1996-present). He served on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Southwest District (2006-2012) and was Vice President of PSWD’s Region Four (2009-2012). He has worked with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Sudan and Sudan, teaching in their seminary Concordia Lutheran Institute for the Holy Ministry in Yambio, South Sudan. He has been there 9 times, and is schedule to go in May, 2025:
- 2009: to teach the Book of Genesis
- 2010: to teach the doctrines of Christology and Justification
- 2013: to teach the doctrines of Word and Sacraments
- 2015: to teach the Books of Luke and Acts
- 2018: to teach Theology, Scripture, and the Holy Trinity
- 2019: to teach Sanctification and Sacraments
- 2021: to teach The Gospel of John
- 2022: to teach Dogmatics 1 & 2
- 2023: to teach The Gospel of John
- 2025: scheduled to teach Eschatology and the End Times