Announcements

The 2027 ELCA Extravaganza is in Minneapolis from January 22–25, 2027. Luther Seminary students are provided two different ways to offset the costs of the event.

1. When you register use the coupon code: student_100 to save $100 dollars off registration.
2. Luther Seminary will reimburse up to $250 of registration fees or travel costs (including: hotel costs, airline/train tickets, and/or mileage). All reimbursements require fully itemized receipts. Please submit receipts using this form.

Questions about reimbursement can be directed to Sandy Olson. Questions about the Extravaganza? Email Jen Gruendler. We hope to see you at the E in 2027!

Want to share something in an upcoming edition of Inside Luther News, the seminary’s internal e-newsletter? Send your announcement to communic@luthersem.edu. Submit items for the December edition by Wednesday, November 11. Inside Luther News content is meant to be somewhat broader in scope—seasonal announcements, monthly reminders, stories about recent events or news of upcoming projects—than the daily Community Announcements posts and emails.

In this devotion, Meredith Bedker Musaus ‘86 M.Div., wonders how we miss the bridegroom Jesus—the most important thing in our lives. Read today’s God Pause.

We gather at 11:00 a.m. CT in the OCC Dining Room for Lunch Church. Come share in a meal and hear a “Why Jesus” talk from Alicia Granholm, senior director of Faith+Lead. Share your prayer requests.

You’re invited to join Cody Sanders for a walking tour of historic Lakewood Cemetery to learn about the history of burial and deathcare practices in the U.S., the rural/garden cemetery movement (of which Lakewood is an example), and the future of deathcare practices. Friends and family are welcome to join you—Saturday, November 7 at 10 a.m., 3600 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis. We’ll meet outside the Cemetery Chapel, just inside the front gates). Questions? Contact Cody Sanders, csanders001@luthersem.edu.

As you register for winter classes, consider the travel course HC4337 Diaconal Ministry. Costs for student attendance are substantially underwritten by the deaconess community of the ELCA for all students registering for the course (grants are for all students, not only those in candidacy or those exploring the ELCA deaconess community). Participants in the course may choose one of the following two grant options: (1) tuition for course credit or course audit (deaconess community pays Luther Seminary or participant’s home seminary cost of course tuition directly), or (2) reimbursement of travel assistance, housing, and food costs at retreat center for in-person component (all double-occupancy housing and food costs are covered, travel reimbursed up to $600). For more information, contact Sister Dottie Almoney, dottie.almoney@elca.org, Directing Deaconess of the ELCA.