Jarvis-Schroeder moved to Minnesota to be closer to family and entered the Clinical Pastoral Education Residency Program in the fall of 2004 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
His first job as chaplain was staff chaplain in Springfield. After almost four years as chaplain, he decided to return to pastoral ministry in a local Lutheran parish. He began his duties as pastor of Brandt Lutheran Church on June 1.