New Career

As some of you may know, for the past several years, I have been taking a series of classes to equip me to serve as a lay minister in my church. This spring I will take the last two classes. This will qualify me to become licensed as a "Deacon". As this course of study has come to an end, I have begun exploring options for further education. At the age of 53, I did not feel it reasonable to return to college to get an undergraduate degree, and then go on for a Master of Divinity. Our church has some other routes for those whom God is calling to the "Office of the Holy Ministry". Mostly this involves a combination of "on the job training" and distance education.

This past Thursday, I called one of our seminaries to get some information on this program and discovered that there is another program which would have me studying on campus for two years, and serving what amounts to an internship(we call it a vicarage). The result of all this would result in my placement in my first call, and my ordination as a minister in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

It looks as if I may well be packing up and moving as soon as May.

Please keep me in your prayers.