Teaching and learning are at the heart of what happens at LSTC. Through their daily ministries, everyone at LSTC, from the groundskeepers to the president support the work of the seminary in preparing women and men for leadership in the church.

Like almost every institution of higher learning in the United States, LSTC will never be able to support its mission on tuition dollars alone.
As a seminary of the ELCA, part of LSTC’s funding comes from the denomination and its synods. But LSTC also relies on the partnership of individuals and congregations who understand the importance of good pastors, teachers, and other rostered leaders.

It is these saints who support the work of the seminary through their gifts. Their regular, undesignated gifts help LSTC meet its financial obligations, provide student services, promote the work of the seminary, recruit new students, and have the means to encourage others to contribute to this ministry of preparation.

LSTC’s and Wartburg Seminary’s extension program in Austin, Texas, the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest, provides the church with leaders for a particular multicultural context. This 30-year-old ministry is supported by the two sponsoring institutions and the synods of Texas and Louisiana. For it to be able to expand its ministry, it seeks a broader base of support. LSTC’s contributions to the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest come from Annual Fund dollars.

Annual Fund dollars are unrestricted. The seminary is able to spend them where they are most needed to meet its day-to-day operating costs or to respond to opportunities.

This webpage was last modified on June 5, 2007

LSTC’s vision is to welcome the partnership of individuals and congregations who, through their gifts, wish to be part of the seminary’s ministry of preparation and teaching. Through these gifts, the seminary will be more responsive to the changing needs of the church.