{"id":5781,"date":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2008\/09\/24\/lucy-christianson-entrusts-her-legacy-to-luther-seminary\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","slug":"lucy-christianson-entrusts-her-legacy-to-luther-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2008\/09\/24\/lucy-christianson-entrusts-her-legacy-to-luther-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Christianson entrusts her legacy to Luther Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Christianson and her late husband, Woody, wanted their passion for libraries to be passed on to future church leaders. So Christianson, who has worked in church libraries for more than 45 years, created The Lucy Endowed Media Fund through a number of charitable gift annuities. &#8220;We agreed on this.We decided this was the direction to go,&#8221; Christianson says. &#8220;And I thought Luther Seminary was the place to start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fund is meant to educate seminary students, clergy and lay leaders about the role modern library-media centers can play. 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