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B. BOARD OF REGENTS
The Board of Regents is the body charged by the
church with oversight of Concordia Lutheran Seminary.
Currently on the board are the following members:
Rev. Nolan Astley was a chair of the BOR until he
accepted a call to Kitchener in 2009.
Mrs. Rhonda Buck was vice-chair until May 2010,
when she moved to Alberta and was hired as the
administrative assistant to the president in July 2010.
- Chairman Rev. Paul Schallhorn, 2011, East District
clergy representative
- Vice-chairman Mr. Christopher Klarenbach, -
Calgary, Alberta (2011, ABC District lay
representative)
- Mrs. Roberta Nixon, appointed until the 2011
convention as Central District lay representative.
- Secretary Rev. Robert Mohns, Didsbury, Alberta
(2014, ABC District clergy representative)
- Rev. Donald Schiemann, Stony Plain, Alberta (ABC
District president)
- Mr. Jonathan Mayan, Surrey, BC (2014, ABC District
lay representative)
- Rev. Mark Dressler , Saskatoon, SK (2014, Central
District clergy representative)
- Rev. Thomas Kruesel, Campbell River, BC (2011,
third vice-president of LCC and representing the
synodical president).
With the new elected members of the BOR, CLS will
offer, via In Trust, a board orientation in the Fall 2011
in Edmonton, in the patterns of ATS.
Among the major decisions of the board there was the
approval the new curriculum, and the agreement of
cooperation signed with the Institute of Lutheran
Theology, from the US. Plans to call a 5 th faculty
member, urged by ATS for several years now, had to be
put on hold, for financial reasons.
C. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
The Student Body counts 23 students today, having 15
in the Master of Divinity program. Other students are in
the Open Studies and Colloquy program. We have three
pre-enrollment inquiries, but in times of (a now long)
institutional incertitude in LCC as a seminary and its
future, we can’t anticipate anything in terms of
enrollment for the Fall.
Institutional Personnel Faculty, staff, and students
have a distinct and expressed understanding of the
seminary’s task and role, and pursue that task with
vigor, even in times of the already mentioned
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incertitude. This understanding and action is lived out
day-by-day as we gather corporately in chapel and
individually within the community. That the seminary
community is guided and empowered by the force of
God’s mission is evident in all that the seminary does.
"Proclaim Christ’s peace – near and far” is the theme
for this academic year. This is what we do within our
walls and teach our students to do in their lives,
wherever and to whatever office God may call them
later.
Our faculty and staff personnel has been renewed in the
sense that we have a new administrative assistant to the
president, since July 2010, Mrs. Rhonda Buck, and a
new secretary to the Development office, Mrs. Sandra
Esperanza, since June 2008. Also, Mr. Ray Smith, our
former treasurer, retired in November 2010 and Mrs.
Caroline Moore came on board as our treasurer,
working one day a week at CLS.
In whatever form CLS will survive as a school, or
whatever school continues on in LCC for forming
pastors, our vision is that LCC should not lose the
threefold vocation of a quality Theological School (as
any quality graduate school or university):
1. TEACHING
Master Of Divinity
A fully accredited four year program, which offers a
full foundational theological and formational
curriculum for our LCC pastors (and students from
other denominations). See above regarding the new
curriculum. Our degree allows for 1/3 of the courses to
be taken via distance education technology; the year
before and after vicarage must be taken on campus in
its entirety. The formational aspect of our seminary
education is a high value, and in the new curriculum we
incorporated a program of required Co-Curricular Units
(CCUs). The student must take a minimum of 600 units
(roughly 1 hour for 1 unit) of learning and activity
outside of class, which are divided into three areas
(with some flexibility in the composition but a
minimum required in each category):
1) Personal Growth
a. Character formation
b. Health and life skills
c. Servant-leadership
d. Aesthetic sensitivity
2) Pastoral skills
a. Social & Cultural issues
b. Specialized ministry contexts
(history, theology, praxis)
c. Worship-leading (at fieldwork
congregation and in CLS chapel)
d. Other pastoral skills