Announcements

The Student Life Team of Lutheran Summer Music (LSM)—a month-long music academy for high school students taking place at Saint Olaf College from June 21-July 19—is hiring for a Health Assistant position. This position is ideal for a college nursing student who has completed at least one year of nursing curriculum. It also could be a great fit for a seminarian with a health background. Luther alum Karl Segletes ’25 M.Div. is serving as LSM’s Student Life Director and would be happy to answer questions about the program. Connect with him at ksegletes001@luthersem.edu. Full job description and application details are here online. Contact LSM dean and director of admissions MaryLynn Mennicke with inquiries: mmennicke@lutheransummermusic.org.

Access to the Luther Seminary Archives will be temporarily paused for church partners and external researchers from April 1 through August 31, 2026. During this period, archives staff will focus on inventory, processing, and preparation of the collections for the seminary’s anticipated move to a new location in the Twin Cities following the 2026–27 academic year. Archives staff will respond to individual research questions on a case-by-case basis throughout the spring and summer. Please contact archives@luthersem.edu for support. These collections include the institutional history, since 1869, of Luther Seminary and its precursors, Augsburg Seminary, the Hauge Synod School, Red Wing Seminary, and Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary; the archives of ELCA Region 3, which date from 1843 and include records of many of the precursor church bodies of the synod; and a number of special collections. For more information about the collections and working with the archives, visit luthersem.edu/archives.

Construction and closures to highway 280 will begin April 13. Starting at 5 a.m. on Monday, April 13 and continuing through late August, crews will fully close northbound Hwy 280 from I-94 in Sain Paul to Hwy 36/I-35W to begin construction improvements. Access to Broadway Street will also be closed during this time. The ramps from I-94 to University Avenue will also be closed. Southbound Hwy 280 from I-94 in Saint Paul to Hwy 36/I-35W will close later in April. Hwy 280 is anticipated to reopen in both directions prior to the start of the Minnesota State Fair in late August. Read more on the MN-DoT website.

In this devotion, Sally Messner ’07 M.S.M. reminds us that on all days, God is with us, training our tongues, waking our ears, and standing with us. Read today’s God Pause.

Join us at 11 a.m. CT for a Service of Holy Communion with preacher Jennifer Wojciechowski, assistant professor of Church History. Dean of the Chapel Steve Thomason will preside and the Luther Seminary student choir will sing. *For those joining via livestream, worship will be guided by a powerpoint embedded in the youtube video. Any hymns from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) will be presented by hymn number only—you may want to have a copy of ELW accessible during worship. The service will be livestreamed.

Dear Luther Seminary Colleagues,
We invite you to celebrate and thank Maria May for her work as a valued Contextual Learning colleague for the past six years. Her last day at Luther Seminary will be April 6. Maria’s organization, project management, and overall agility as a team member has been integral to moving Contextual Learning into a multi-modal learning and training environment for literally thousands of ministry leaders (students and external ministers alike). Maria is venturing forward in her final stretch of candidacy as a postulant for priesthood in the Episcopal church and her final year completing her own M.Div. degree at the General Theological Seminary of New York. We look forward to hearing more as her ministry journey unfolds. Please stop by Bockman Hall 116 for coffee/tea and light refreshments and an opportunity to say farewell on Wednesday, March 25 from 9-10 a.m.
—Tim Coltvet, Director of Contextual Learning