Starting With a Seed: Lehenbauer Legacy
View larger image by Michael Stainbrook What does sharing the Gospel have to do with planting soybeans in Brazil? Quite a bit, actually. A Lutheran pastor named Albert Lehenbauer introduced […]
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Decades Making Disciples
Photo: Concordia University, Saint Paul, Minn. by Sarah Maney Dr. Robert Holst speaks six languages. Spent more than five decades working in ministry. Raised three children. Served as a missionary, […]
Schooled in Ministry
by Sarah Maney When first-year Deaconess Studies student Rachel McCloskey moved to Concordia Seminary’s campus in the fall of 2021, she felt like she was coming home. Indeed she was. […]
Contagious Joy in the Gospel
by Rebekah Lucas Director of Christian Education Mark “Marcos” Kempff grew up the son of pioneer Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) missionaries to Latin America. He was called to Concordia Seminary, […]
The Camp Connection
View larger image by Rebekah Lukas Lutheran and Christian summer camps rise from the country’s landscape, stretching from Washington to Florida, from North Dakota to Texas. These camps are the […]
The Fuller Story of God
by Dr. Charles Arand and Dr. Erik Herrmann Each week people in the pew hear portions of a story that focuses on God’s work of rescuing His creation — beginning […]
Friedrich family: Supporting the Seminary from one generation to the next
First row, from left: Walter H.C. Friedrich, Martin H. W. Friedrich, Henry W. A. Friedrich. Second row: William E. Friedrich, Robert A. Friedrich, Brian L. Friedrich and Mark D. Friedrich. […]
Serving in the middle
by Tim Barker Rev. Travis Ferguson remembers well the morning his ministry radically changed direction. It was Aug. 16, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and the U.S. […]
Trusting God’s plan
by Sarah Maney Idonis King’s path to Concordia Seminary, St. Louis began with a wrong turn. It was 2014. It was a typical day for King, who had been out […]
Looking to the future
by Sarah Maney Dr. Joel Elowsky, professor of Historical Theology, began his education in a two-room grade school in the rural town of Lowden, Iowa. “Kindergarten through fourth grade were […]
Balancing the head and the heart of the pastor
by Rebekah LukasDr. Rance Settle had always aspired to be a priest. Since he was little, he was involved in his Roman Catholic parish, and participated in Catholic youth and […]
Bringing light and life into a dark world
by Philip Werth Penhallegon As God worked away at me, nudging me ever closer to pastoral ministry, He put a verse in my mind that I knew in part but […]