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Opportunities at LSTC Trumpets & Organ, Gospel Choir Concert and LaPaloma coming up in Chapel Music Series Three concerts remain in the 2009-2010 Chapel Music Series at LSTC. Admissions is free, with a freewill offering taken at each performance. March 21 at 4 p.m., Music for Trumpets and Organ will be presented by three of Chicago’s best musical treasures, Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer, and Thomas Wikman in an internationally-acclaimed program of exciting music. April 11 at 4 p.m., LSTC’s Gospel Choir Concert will be held to benefit the Grover Wright and Rev. Carole A. Burns Scholarship Funds. Director George Cooper leads LSTC’s choir. Other area choirs will join in this lively, energetic concert. Your generous support assists deserving students. To contribute to the scholarship funds, visit www.lstc.edu/alums_ friends/giving/index.html. April 25 at 4 p.m., LaPaloma returns to the Chapel Music Series. The string ensemble, made up of Chicago Symphony Orchestra members and friends, will present Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht Op. 4. Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality will explore “what makes us human” On Friday, April 16, student scholars from across the United States and a variety of disciplines will present papers exploring the questions, “What makes us human?” “Is there such a thing as human nature?” and “How do our ideas about human nature relate to God, the sacred or the world?” The Student Symposium is a one-day conference designed to provide an interdisciplinary, ecumenical, and inter-religious forum for graduate students in any academic discipline to engage in rigorous and collaborative conversations in religion and science. The first symposium in 2009 drew more than 70 participants and featured more than 30 student speakers and panelists from 17 schools across the United States and Canada. The presentations begin at 9:00 a.m. and continue throughout the day. The public is welcome to attend this free event. Learn how to do youth ministry in an interfaith world “Sacred Stories: Youth Faith Formation in an Interfaith World,” Youth in Mission’s second annual youth ministry workers’ conference will be held April 12-13, 2010, at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago to help youth ministry workers find and develop new approaches to interfaith issues facing our youth. The conference’s keynote speaker will be Hannah McConnaughay, Program Associate in the Outreach Education and Training Department of the Interfaith Youth Core. Conference registration fees are $45/person plus housing and transportation costs. More information including workshop options, leaders, and the conference schedule are on the conference website: http:// yim.lstc.edu/conference/index.php or call us at 800- 635-1116, ext. 725. Two participants in Youth in Mission’s Serving Christ in the World program focus on a passage of scripture 2
News from LSTC LSTC adopts new mission, vision, values statements In January, LSTC’s board of directors adopted new mission, vision and values statements for the seminary. The action concluded a year-long process that involved faculty, staff, students, alumni, and board members. Drafts were shared with focus groups of each of these constituencies and the statements were refined based on the suggestions and comments that were made. Mission The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, forms visionary leaders to bear witness to the good news of Jesus Christ. Vision LSTC seeks to build up the Body of Christ and work for a world of peace and justice that cares for the whole creation. Values LSTC is: Christ-centered – Strives by God’s grace to follow Christ’s call to loving service. At their meetings November 5–7 in Chicago, the boards of the Covenant Cluster seminaries, LSTC, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and Wartburg Theological Seminary, agreed to collaborate in new ways to enhance the mission of each school. The actions of the boards commit the seminaries to explore business, programmatic, faculty, and planning models that will further their common mission of forming leaders for the church. Following the meeting, Wartburg President Duane Larson, who currently serves as executive director of the Covenant Cluster, said, on behalf of the three seminary presidents, “This was a consequential and far-reaching meeting of our boards. We were inspired by the dedication of every board member to their seminaries and to the leadership needs of the church at large. We look forward to exploring, with the Covenant Cluster Board, new models for deeper collaboration and excellence in our ministries.” Prior to taking action on the resolutions, the boards held several joint sessions. They heard presentations by the Rev. Dr. Daniel Aleshire, executive director of the seminary accrediting agency, the Association of Theological Schools, and the Rev. Dr. 3 Responsive to context – Embraces its diverse urban setting and exciting academic environment that enable learning from and ministering to the community. Relationships with synods and congregations provide academic and practical experiences that meet the needs of the church. Attentive to diversity – Emphasizes knowing and honoring the perspectives of all nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, Christian traditions, and religions to form leaders whose witness to the Gospel will build communities of hospitality and reconciliation. Committed to excellence – Sends leaders into church and world who are prepared academically, practically, and spiritually to serve in a variety of vocational and ministry settings. Faculty members are faithful Christians who are internationally recognized scholars and teachers. Administration and staff strive to provide exemplary service to all constituents. LSTC, Trinity and Wartburg resolve to work together in new ways Jonathan Strandjord, ELCA’s director for theological education, on trends in theological education and the Church. With those trends in mind, the boards commented on resolutions inviting new ways for LSTC, Wartburg, and Trinity to work together. “It was very important and extremely beneficial for the boards to reflect on the current and future stewardship of these seminaries in the larger context of North American and ELCA theological education,” said President James Kenneth Echols. “Both presenters contributed richly to the joint board meeting.” “In times such as these, and when theological education needs to be a central priority for all of the baptized, the energy devoted by seminary leaders and boards is significant,” said Mark R. Ramseth, president of Trinity. “We are historic communities of learning and formation. We can never be in isolation, but are called always into larger arenas of possibility for the sake of our common mission.” The Covenant Cluster board, which consists of the presidents and board chairpersons of Wartburg, Trinity, and LSTC, as well as board and faculty representatives, began to implement the resolutions at its meeting in February 2010.
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