Spring Semester of 2023-24 academic year ends after classes
2024-05-16 | MO

Concordia Seminary Author Reception
2024-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Kristine Kay Hasse Memorial Library, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States

Artificial Intelligence and Real Ministry
2024-04-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Six-week online course begins Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Understanding the significance and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly crucial for today’s pastors. A new six-week online continuing education course, “Artificial Intelligence and Real Ministry,” aims to provide a comprehensive overview, highlighting key facets of AI and its potential implications in ministry. The course is offered in partnership by Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (CSL) and Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor (CUWAA).
Six sessions will be taught weekly from 4-5 p.m. (CT) Tuesday, April 9, through May 14, 2024, via Zoom. The course instructors include Dr. David Adams, the W.G. Ray and Louis J. Rechzigel Professor of Biblical Studies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.; Christopher Brandt, director of business intelligence at CUWAA; Joshua Locklair, assistant professor of Computer Science at CUWAA; and Brett Seider, director of administrative computing at CUWAA.

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Spring Semester classes end for ODS Program
2024-05-14 | MO

Spring Semester classes end for SMP Program
2024-05-13 | MO

Seventh Sunday of Easter
2024-05-12 | MO
Seventh Sunday of Easter

FIRST READING
Acts 1:12–26

PSALM
Ps. 1

EPISTLE
1 John 5:9–15

GOSPEL
John 17:11b–19

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Mother's Day
2023-05-14 | MO

Prof 'n Stein
2024-05-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Wartburg Commons, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105

The Ascension of Our Lord
2024-05-09 | MO
The Ascension of Our Lord

FIRST READING
Acts 1:1–11

PSALM
Ps. 47

EPISTLE
Eph. 1:15–23

GOSPEL
Luke 24:44–53

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GiveSTL Day
2024-05-09 | MO
Together with supporters both local and nationwide, create an impact larger than any one of us can make for the Seminary’s vital mission on Give STL Day, May 9, 2024. This special day of giving is one of three of the Seminary’s annual giving days. Give STL Day is an online giving event organized by the St. Louis Community Foundation for the benefit of nonprofits headquartered in the metropolitan area.
With your support, our graduates go out from here to the four corners of the world to shine the light of the Gospel. To help meet the needs of our students, our goal this year is $50,000. We thank you in advance for your partnership in this special campaign and for making the Seminary’s mission possible!
Early giving for Give STL Day opens April 24. Thanks to a special matching opportunity, gifts will be doubled dollar for dollar up to the first $25,000 raised. Your gift will make twice the impact in support of the Seminary’s mission to prepare our church’s future ministry leaders. Thank you!

After Chapel Concert
2024-05-07 09:55 - 10:20 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Kammerchor from Concordia University Wisconsin
After Chapel Concerts feature musicians from on and off campus sharing their musical talents on a variety of instruments at 9:55 a.m. Recitals are held directly following morning chapel, which begins at 9:35 a.m., and are typically held in the chapel balcony.

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Sixth Sunday of Easter
2024-05-05 | MO
Sixth Sunday of Easter

FIRST READING
Acts 10:34–48

PSALM
Ps. 98

EPISTLE
1 John 5:1–8

GOSPEL
John 15:9–17

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Seminary Guild luncheon
2024-05-03 11:30 - 13:30 | Koburg Dining Hall, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105
The Concordia Seminary Guild is an organization of individuals, women’s organizations and congregations dedicated to providing support to the Concordia Seminary community, its students and their families, and staff.
Friday, May 3, 2024

Program:
Home Schooling Update
Lisa Mudge
What’s Happening at the Seminary
Dr. Thomas J. Egger, President, Concordia Seminary

11:30 a.m.
Registration

Noon
Luncheon

Installation of officers

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National Day of Prayer
2023-05-03 | MO

2024 Multi Asian Gathering
2024-05-01 - 2024-05-02 | Koburg Hall, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
2024 Multi Asian Gathering
May 1-2, 2024
The Multi Asian Gathering is a mission movement of Asian leaders (clergy and laity) to celebrate our unity and uniqueness in mission and ministry in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).
The purpose of the Multi Asian Gathering is to bring together Asian leaders from diverse Asian backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures in order to address common mission and ministry topics we face such as next-generation ministry, leadership development, theological education, church planting, discipleship, colloquy programs and cross-cultural missions. We desire to network and form meaningful relationships with all cultures and expand our interaction with LCMS leaders and entities.

Registration
Those interested in participating in the Multi Asian Gathering must register for the Multiethnic Symposium.

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Schedule
Wednesday May 1, 2024

TIME
EVENT

2:00 pm
Welcome and Opening Presentations: – Multi Asian Gathering, Past, Present and Future – Dr. Terrence Chan, Founder and Team Leader, Multi Asian Gathering – Opening Devotion – Rev. Kinh Vu, Senior Administrative Pastor, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Garden Grove, Calif.

2:30 pm
Participant Meet and Greet Activity / Break

3 pm
Session No. 1 – “What is Lutheran Anyhow?” Reflecting on the Question, Its Answers and Practical Implications for Multi Asian Churches – Dr. Joel Okamoto, Professor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

4:30 pm
Session No. 2 – Roundtable: “Bi-vocational Ministry/Second Career Ministry” – Panel: Rev. Kinh Vu, Senior Administrative Pastor, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Garden Grove, Calif.; Rev. Steve Law, Pastor, Wollaston Lutheran Church, Quincy, Mass.; Rev. Vue Lee, Assistant to the President for Missions, LCMS Minnesota South District

6 pm
Dinner

Thursday May 2, 2024

TIME
EVENT

8:00 am
Continental Breakfast

9:00 am
Opening Devotion – Rev. Steve Law, Pastor, Wollaston Lutheran Church, Quincy, Mass.

9:30 am
“A Cultural Perspective: Nepalese Ministry” – Nabin Samal, Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) Student, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

10 am
Session No. 3 “God’s Mission Here” – Rev. Dan Galchutt, Executive Director, LCMS Office of National Mission

10:45 am
Session No. 4 “All Nations: The End of the Homogeneous Congregation?” – Rev. Dr. Mark Wood, Managing Director, Church Planting, Renewal and Support, LCMS Office of National Mission

11:30 pm
“A Cultural Perspective: Korean Ministry” – Insub (Isaac) Paik, Seminarian/Ph.D. candidate, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Noon
Lunch

12:45 pm
Session No. 5 “Dual Leadership” – Rev. Vue Lee, Assistant to the President for Missions, LCMS Minnesota South District

2:15 pm
Closing Remarks

2:30 pm
Depart

Multiethnic Symposium
2024-04-30 - 2024-05-01 | Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
We Believe in One Holy Catholic Church
Reclaiming our Catholicity Through the Multiethnic Church
The word catholic, the term used in the earliest versions of the Nicene Creed, makes manifest that the true church we confess is a church that embraces God’s people in all their cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity. Come experience just a taste of what that means as we study and pray together at this Multiethnic Symposium.

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Deadline for Old Testament, New Testament, Christian Doctrine ELCEs for Fall 2024 matriculation
2024-04-30 | MO

Deadline for SMP Entry Level Competency Exams for Fall 2024 matriculation
2024-04-30 | MO

Fifth Sunday of Easter
2024-04-28 | MO
Fifth Sunday of Easter

FIRST READING
Acts 8:26–40

PSALM
Ps. 150

EPISTLE
1 John 4:1–11 (12–21)

GOSPEL
John 15:1–8

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Prof Insights: Faculty-Led Workshop – Professor Voelz in Sandy, UT
2024-04-25 - 2024-04-27 | Grace Lutheran Church (Sandy, UT), 1815 E. 9800 S., Sandy, UT, 84092, United States
Principles of Biblical Interpretation for Everyone
This workshop will center around the presenter’s book, Principles of Biblical Interpretation for Everyone (Concordia Seminary Press, 2023). The book takes readers into the text of the Bible and helps them to understand the important factors that go into interpreting it. Participants are required to purchase the book ahead of time and to read through Chapter 8 before the workshop. They will then delve into the book’s content with the presenter as he answers questions and gives clarifications. Significant pre-workshop reading is a requirement. The book can be purchased online from the Concordia Seminary Campus Store. You will receive a coupon code to purchase the book at a discounted price of $20 in your registration confirmation email.

Dr. James Voelz
Graduate Professor of Exegetical Theology and the Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Professor of New Testament Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Dr. James W. Voelz is graduate professor of Exegetical Theology and the Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Professor of New Testament Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. A faculty member since 1989, he served as chair of the Department of Exegetical Theology (2013–15), dean of the faculty (2006–10) and dean of the Graduate School (1996–2002). His areas of focus are the Greek language, hermeneutics (theory of interpretation) and the synoptic Gospels. He also has taught the Pauline epistles and Acts of the Apostles. He served as an adjunct faculty member of Kenrick Seminary, the Roman Catholic diocesan seminary in St. Louis, from 2009-14, and from 2005-15 was coordinator of the Institute of Theology at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Des Peres, Mo., at which he also taught a Sunday morning Bible class for 24 years.

Schedule

DAY
TIME

Thursday, April 25
6:30-8 p.m.

Friday, April 26
6:30-8 p.m.

Saturday, April 27
9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Registration cost: $150
Registration deadline: April 11, 2024
Location contact: Rev. Tony Masinelli

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St. Mark, Evangelist
2024-04-25 | MO

Call Day
2024-04-23 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Assignment of Vicarages 3 p.m. (CDT)
Assignment of Calls 7 p.m. (CDT)
Call Day, an annual event, is the day when concluding students receive their first pastoral or diaconal ministry placements, and second-year students receive their vicarage or deaconess internship assignments. All calls and assignments for service are to churches or ministries within The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Join us in-person in the chapel, via live stream, Facebook or YouTube.

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Fourth Sunday of Easter
2024-04-21 | MO
Fourth Sunday of Easter

FIRST READING
Acts 4:1–12

PSALM
Ps. 23

EPISTLE
1 John 3:16–24

GOSPEL
John 10:11–18

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Springfest
2024-04-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Main Quad
In case of rain, the event will be held in Wartburg Commons.

Prison Ministry Coordinators Conference
2024-04-15 - 2024-04-16 | Koburg Hall, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Southern Illinois District Prison Ministry Task Force will have its annual conference Monday, April 15, through Tuesday, April 16, at Concordia Seminary in Koburg Hall. The conference called the “2024 Prison Ministry Coordinators Conference” will include expert guest speakers, working sessions, resource sharing, Q&A time and more! This is a great resource for existing prison ministries and an excellent introduction for those interested in starting a prison ministry. It is open to all LCMS districts. Registration is $100 and includes one night of lodging, conference materials and meals and snacks. Space is limited. Scholarships are available to help with travel for those who have a need.
Participants are encouraged to explore prison ministry opportunities in their districts even if none exist. The conference will be an introduction to prison ministry opportunities and resources. Sessions will include presentations from Rev. Tim Carter, author of the book The Executioner’s Redemption, and representatives from the LCMS Office of National Mission, LCMS Prison Ministry, Concordia Publishing House, Lutheran Braille Workers, Lutheran Heritage Foundation, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and Lutheran Hour Ministries. A pilot program at a federal prison in Greenville, Ill., also will be introduced.
To register for the conference, send an email to Jeff Fick, the administrator for the LCMS Southern Illinois District, at sidlcmssage@gmail.com. He will reply to the email with a link to registration details.
Questions? Contact Dr. Jeffrey Nehrt at 618-292-4392 or jeffnehrt84@gmail.com.

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Vocatio: Retreat
2024-04-14 - 2024-04-16 | Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Vocatio: Retreat is a three-day opportunity for college students and second-career men and women (and their families) to rest in God’s Word, spend time in prayer and learn about the path to full-time service as a pastor, deaconess, missionary or chaplain.

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