by Rebekah Lucas Director of Christian Education Mark “Marcos” Kempff grew up the son of pioneer Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) missionaries to Latin America. He was called to Concordia Seminary, […]

View larger image by Rebekah Lukas Lutheran and Christian summer camps rise from the country’s landscape, stretching from Washington to Florida, from North Dakota to Texas. These camps are the […]

by Dr. Charles Arand and Dr. Erik Herrmann Each week people in the pew hear portions of a story that focuses on God’s work of rescuing His creation — beginning […]

by Rebekah Lucas Dr. Brian Friedrich looks at the wall above his office desk to a portrait of his grandfather, Rev. Walter Friedrich. The oldest son of William and Christine […]

by Tim Barker Rev. Travis Ferguson remembers well the morning his ministry radically changed direction. It was Aug. 16, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and the U.S. […]

by Sarah Maney Idonis King’s path to Concordia Seminary, St. Louis began with a wrong turn. It was 2014. It was a typical day for King, who had been out […]

by Sarah Maney Dr. Joel Elowsky, professor of Historical Theology, began his education in a two-room grade school in the rural town of Lowden, Iowa. “Kindergarten through fourth grade were […]

by Rebekah LukasDr. Rance Settle had always aspired to be a priest. Since he was little, he was involved in his Roman Catholic parish, and participated in Catholic youth and […]

by Philip Werth Penhallegon As God worked away at me, nudging me ever closer to pastoral ministry, He put a verse in my mind that I knew in part but […]

by Kim Plummer Krull Thomas J. Egger arrived at Concordia Seminary in 1993 as a new Master of Divinity student from Muscatine, Iowa. His primary aspiration was to become a […]

by Sarah Maney In the middle of a chaotic childhood, Marcus Gray found comfort in the care of his grandmother. Gray, known as the Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist FLAME, remembers her […]

by Rebekah Lucas Chad Bolosan (M.Div. ’21) Messiah Lutheran Church, Sterling, Ill. Bolosan was born and raised in Hawaii, and studied accounting at Michigan State University. He worked for several […]