Announcements

• Lutheran Social Service (LSS) of Minnesota – Financial Counseling is here to help! Whether you’re looking to create a sustainable plan for student loan repayment, managing credit card debt, or facing home foreclosure, LSS certified financial counselors are available to meet with you and your immediate family members at no out-of-pocket cost to you through its ongoing partnership with Luther Seminary’s Stewardship Leaders Program. Note: You don’t need to be Lutheran or located in the state of Minnesota to access this valuable resource!
• To explore what LSS has to offer, visit the LSS/Luther Seminary Financial Choice website.
• To set up a phone appointment with a certified financial counselor, call 800.528.2926 and tell them you are a Luther Seminary student.
• Already met with an LSS certified financial counselor? Send your certificate to Grace Pomroy at gpomroy001@luthersem.edu to receive a $50 Amazon gift card.
• Questions? Contact Grace Pomroy at gpomroy001@luthersem.edu.

Bring your own lunch to OCC 10 on Tuesday, December 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—or join us on Zoom (link in email)—to learn about what the archives working group has done so far. The group will share some of their findings and next steps and invite conversation on how the archives can best serve this community into the future. Contact Caleb Rollins with any questions at crollins002@luthersem.edu.

Join us January 25–27, 2026, for a 3-day retreat that explores God’s call on your life. We will explore the biblical witness on divine calling and God’s ongoing calling in our lives. There will be time for rest, play, worship, and prayer. Throughout the retreat we will use storytelling and the witness of community and faith practices to dig deeply into our stories and the story God is unfolding in each of us. We will gather at Shores of Saint Andrew Bible Camp in New London, Minnesota. Participants will have the opportunity to carpool to/from campus or meet at the retreat center. The cost of the retreat including 2 nights lodging and 6 meals is $200—thanks to the support of a Luther Seminary grant. Scholarships are available for current Luther Seminary students thanks to the Stewardship Leaders Endowment Lab grant—email Ashley Wheeler (awheeler002@luthersem.edu) for more information. Retreat enrollment is limited, so register soon. Registration closes Monday, December 15. The retreat is led by Steve Thomason, Dean of the Chapel and Faculty, Ashley Wheeler in Candidacy and Contextual Education, and Jen Gruendler in Admissions.

In this devotion, Elizabeth Schoenknecht ’04 M.Div., reminds us that the gospel message shatters our definitions of who is “right” and “wrong”—the good news is for all people. Read today’s God Pause.

We gather at 11:00 a.m. CT in the Chapel of the Incarnation and online* for worship. Join us for a Service of Holy Communion and the celebration of our fall graduates with preacherJennifer Wojciechowski, assistant professor of Church History, presider Dean of the Chapel Steve Thomason, and musicians Director of Music Erin DeBoer-Moran and a student choir. *For those joining via livestream: Worship will be guided by a powerpoint embedded in the youtube video. Any hymns from the Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) hymnal will be presented by hymn number only—you may want to have a copy of ELW accessible. Share your prayer requests.

Have you ever wondered what actually is in the archives? Or where it is? Or what’s behind those doors in the tunnel from Gullixson to Bockman? Join our archivist, Caleb Rollins, on Wednesday, December 3 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. for a tour of the mystical and mundane found in our archives. The tour will start outside Room 5 in Gullixson Hall. If you have questions or can’t attend this tour but are interested in one, contact Caleb at crollins002@luthersem.edu.