It’s Monday morning in late November at Zion Lutheran Church in Browerville, Minn., and Pastor Nate Loer, ’03, is already at church. He’s been there a few hours, moving tables into closets and generally cleaning up after the church’s annual Lutefisk Dinner that served 200 people on Sunday despite one of the worst ice storms in Minnesota history.

“The clean-up committee doesn’t know where the tables go afterwards,” said Debby Abrahamson, church secretary and treasurer. “(Pastor Nate) takes care of the little things. He’s the one who puts the church back together again.”

As an intern at Como Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., John Klawiter is already giving back to the church. Midway through the year, Klawiter, a Master of Divinity student, says he has found internship to be a great place to try new ways to do ministry. “As an intern you’re growing, but also […]

When Donna Dohrmann first felt called to seminary nearly 20 years ago, she wasn’t sure it was the right time. She knew she was called to ministry, having recently started supply preaching at various churches. But with a husband, Art, who farmed and two children in western North Dakota, seminary seemed out of the question—no […]

For years, Beth Krolak was certain of her path as a Christian school teacher. But, as her own children grew older, she felt called to a different type of ministry. That’s when her path led her to Luther Seminary to pursue ordained ministry. And, while Krolak always felt a call to mission work, her 2009 […]

On Aug. 19, Benjamin Ngede, professor of theology at Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania, died at the age of 63. In addition to his role as a pastor and professor, Ngede was a leader in the Bega Kwa Bega (shoulder to shoulder) partnership between the ELCA’s St. Paul Area Synod and the Iringa Diocese of […]

The Rev. William A. Smith, ’68 and ’54, Luther Seminary professor emeritus of pastoral care, died Aug. 26 in St. Paul. He was 85. Smith was interred in Luther Seminary’s Garden of the Resurrection on Oct. 3. Smith served as professor of pastoral care from 1971-1995. He came to Luther Seminary in 1970 as a […]