Assignments

Family and friends gathered on campus last week for the call and graduation services that marked the end of the 2010-2011 school year. At the call day service on Thursday 50 men were assigned to various fields of ministry through the synod’s assignment committee. Forty-one graduates from the class of 2011 received their first calls into public ministry. Of these men, five were assigned as tutors, 35 to parish ministry, and one to a world mission field. In addition, two men trained through the Pastoral Studies Institute and one graduate from 2010 received assignments. Of the 14 men returning for re-assignment, one assignment was made permanent, five received assignment to a new field of labor, and eight for another year to their present field of labor. Please keep those newly assigned in your prayers that they may bring the blessings of the gospel wherever they go and however they serve.

Vicar assignments were announced on Tuesday evening. All 35 men were placed with congregations located in 21 states and Canada.
The vicar year, similar to a one-year internship, allows students to work with experienced pastors in congregations across the country and in Canada, honing the skills they have already learned and acquiring new ones. “The importance of the vicar year in training pastors cannot be overestimated. It allows the student a year in which he can put what he has learned in the seminary classrooms into practice in a real life ministry setting. We are grateful for all the congregations that partner with us in preparing the next generation of pastoral leaders.”
– President Paul Wendland

Assignment lists