Archives for November 30, 2021

Please come and observe with us the first week in Advent! Today’s liturgy is a Service of Word and Song with Ashley Wheeler, candidacy coordinator, preaching. Music will be led by Nate Crary, director of worship at Christ the King Lutheran Church in New Brighton, Minnesota.

The Luther Community will have two opportunities to meet Faculty Candidate Cho today. Join us for one or both conversations.

Student Conversation: 11:45 – 12:30 in the Dining Room or on Zoom
Public Teaching Time: 1 – 2:30 PM in OCC 10 and on Zoom

The Zoom links will be included in the community announcements email.

Please welcome Sitraka Rakotoarivelo as digital media production specialist for Faith+Lead. Sitraka will help us manage, produce, and coordinate our expanding portfolio of audio and video content for Working Preacher, Faith+Lead, Faith+Lead Academy, Enter the Bible, and more. Sitraka has extensive experience in video and audio production, digital media, and graphic design, and is a CYF graduate of Luther Seminary.

When an on-campus case of COVID-19 is reported (as happened last week), that person is first asked to stay off-campus and quarantine in accordance with CDC guidelines. In addition, the seminary takes two steps for contact tracing:

1. The Minnesota Deptartment of Health is notified, per guidelines for institutions of higher education

2. The person reporting the case is asked to identify “close contacts”; the close contacts identified are notified of the exposure and asked to follow CDC guidelines for testing and quarantining (quarantine applies only to close contacts who are unvaccinated).

The CDC defines a close contact as someone who has been within 6 feet of someone with COVID-19 for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more during a 24 hour period. Passing in the hall or a single brief interaction is not considered close contact. Please use this link to learn more about CDC guidelines on close contacts, quarantine and isolation: CDC guidelines.