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Joy McDonald Coltvet, Director for Vocations and Recruitment
Together Joy McDonald Coltvet and Dorothy Dominiak co-direct the Office of Vocation, Admissions, and Financial Aid, with each director exercising responsibility for particular areas of work, as well as some shared tasks.
Joy represents LSTC in a variety of contexts: college campuses, ELCA congregations and synods, camps and denominational events. Her responsibilities include: guiding and expanding LSTC's recruitment initiatives, engaging in vocational discernment with prospective students, supervising the Program Coordinator of the Youth in Mission Program, and overseeing planning for Seminary Sampler and other prospective student visits of groups and individuals. She works with LSTC constituencies to develop an active web of recruiters and assist the Advancement team and the faculty with resources for promoting LSTC's programs. She partners with the Director for Admissions and Financial Aid in maintaining records, following through on student contacts, and meeting with the Admissions Committee.
Biography
Joy is a 2001 M.Div. graduate of LSTC and a 1996 graduate of Luther College. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Joy has served as associate pastor of Galilee Lutheran Church in Pewaukee, Wisconsin (2001-2005) and as campus pastor at The Corner House: Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (January 2005-July 2006).
In the Greater Milwaukee Synod, Joy served on the stewardship/mission interpretation committee and anti-racism team, and assisted with synod assembly worship. Her writings have been published in The Word in Season, Sundays & Seasons 2007 and the online magazine Café: Stirring the Spirit Within. As president of the SOPHIA Leadership Board during 2004-05, she demonstrated her commitment to congregation-based community organizing for social justice.
While a student at LSTC, Joy took advantage of a wide range of opportunities to experience ministry in a variety of settings. She did her field work at Bethany Lutheran Church in South Side Chicago and her internship in two northern Illinois rural congregations, St. John's of Pearl City and St. Paul's in Kent. During one year of her seminary studies, she and her husband, Ben, served as staff at Holden Village. Joy and Ben have recently moved back to the Chicago area. Ben serves as Associate Director for Interpretation and Planning within the Communications Unit of the ELCA.
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