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Mid-Winter Convocation

Engaging Scripture in a Community of Faith with Heart, Mind and Spirit

Jan. 13-15, 2010
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.

Speakers

Mike Housholder  |  Mark Allen Powell  |  Mary Shore

Mike Housholder

Senior Pastor, Lutheran Church of Hope, West Des Moines, Iowa

Mike Housholder, a 1990 Luther Seminary graduate, has served as senior pastor at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines, Iowa since 1993. Lutheran Church of Hope, a mission start congregation, has become one of the fastest growing churches in the nation. Under Housholder's leadership, the congregation has completed five major building projects, launched two new satellite congregations, connected thousands of people to hundreds of small groups and discipleship classes, actively partnered with numerous Christian based local and global outreach ministries, and developed a multitude of ministries. Housholder was listed in Outreach Magazine's "25 Church Leaders to Watch," and is a recipient of the "40 under 40" award from the Des Moines Business Record. He served on the original Core Leadership Team for Alpha USA, and is a current board member for Meals from the Heartland.

Mark Allan Powell    

Professor of New Testament, Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Mark Allan Powell is an internationally known biblical scholar. He is editor of the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary and author of more than 25 books on the Bible and religion, including the widely used textbook, Reading the New Testament (Baker Academic). He has also written in the areas of spiritual formation (Loving Jesus), stewardship (Giving To God), and homiletics (What Do They Hear?: Bridging the Gap between Pulpit and Pew). Powell's DVDs How Lutherans Understand the Bible have received widespread use throughout the ELCA and were excerpted for inclusion in the Lutheran Study Bible (Augsburg Fortress).

Mary Hinkle Shore

Associate Profession of New Testament, Luther Seminary

Mary Hinkle Shore joined the Luther Seminary faculty in the fall of 1997. Shore received the B.A. degree summa cum laude from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982. In 1986 she graduated from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, and was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Following ordination she served for six years in rural and suburban parish settings in North Dakota. She currently is rostered in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA.

She earned the Ph.D. degree in New Testament and Christian Origins from Duke University in 1997. Her dissertation is entitled, "Proclaiming Peace: The Use of Scripture in Ephesians." While at Duke, she was a teaching assistant in undergraduate religion courses, as well as a preceptor for New Testament and homiletics courses in the Divinity School.

Shore currently is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Among Dr. Shore's recent publications is Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life, published by Augsburg Fortress in the Lutheran Voices series; and essays, "The Lord's Prayer: Empowerment for Living the Sermon on the Mount" (Word and World. 2002) and "Exegesis" (Lectionary Homiletics. 2002).