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Why I love LSTC
 I love LSTC because it has faithfully and creatively trained persons for theological education and pastoral ministry. It has taken the best of the five predecessor seminaries and balanced their mission into a dynamic laboratory of cutting edge theology and ministry. The faculty has always been open and willing to be available to the students while challenging them to excel in their pursuit of theological education and ordained ministry. There is a vital spirit of community fostered by faculty, administration, and students. Read the rest of the story. |
Register for Summer Session
Looking for continuting education opportunties?
LSTC's week-long summer session classes begin June 16 and June 23. Learn news ways to imagine your congregation's mission, better ways to do Christian education, about our Muslim neighbors and more.
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Equipping the Saints Campaign Progress through March 2008
LSTC's most important accomplishments happen after graduation, when leaders - equipped to engage a changing world - take up their ministries. Think of the seminary as a factory: everything we do has as its end result the formation of leaders for the church. Classes, internship, Greek, papers, JKM, meetings, boards, maintenance, refectory, finances, fundraising - all for the ultimate goal of preparing women and men for ministry. Students are what Equipping the Saints for Ministry is all about.
The campaign was specifically designed to provide funds for the core necessities of LSTC: financial aid, faculty chairs, building modernization, and increased day-to-day operational costs (has your gas bill gone up too?)
The LSTC Fund - endowment - has a goal of $30 million.
The Annual Fund - daily operations - has a goal of $26 million.
How are we doing?
As of March 31:
Annual Fund Cash - $15,692,219
Annual Fund Pledge $1,545,052
LSTC Fund Cash $8,307,360
LSTC Fund Pledge $6,716,935
Total Progress - $32,261,566
Your gifts, your prayers, your testimony are vital to Equipping the Saints for Ministry - thank you for your partnership with your seminary.
Michael Klinefelter
Assistant Vice President for Advancement
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News you should know
Memorial service for Morris J. Niedenthal will be held Saturday, April 26, at Augustana Lutheran Church in Hyde Park. More about Morry Niedenthal
After 40 years of continuous full-time service to LSTC, Nick Spehar retired (sort-of) to part-time work. If you would like to share your stories about Nick, we'd love to share them with him when we celebrate his ministry. Share a story about Nick: Email us at jboden@lstc.edu.
20th Annual LSTC Gospel Choir Concert, "Grateful" will be held April 20th at 4 p.m. in the Augustana Chapel at LSTC. The concert benefits the Grover Wright Scholarship Fund and the Rev. Carole A. Burns Scholarship Fund. More information
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Reunions in May
Classes of 1958 and 1968 will gather at LSTC
Fifty-year graduates from LSTC's predecessor schools will gather at the seminary May 17 - 18. The reunion includes an evening of sharing ministry stories, worship in the Augustana Chapel at LSTC on Sunday morning and recognition at LSTC's commencement. For details, email rdeppe@lstc.edu or call 773-256-0712.
LSTC's first graduating class, 1968, will hold their 40-year reunion May 16 - 19. Get details and join the class blog by emailing Jess Nipp at jnipp@lstc.edu.
LSTC' s 2008 Leadership Conference - View the photos.
Save the Date:
LSTC's 2009
Leadership Conference. Feb 10-11, 2009 - for "The New Narratives: Finding Faith and Grace in Film."
Who won the
Presidential Shoe?
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