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The Stewardship Leaders Program, in partnership with Thrivent Charitable, is excited to announce the 6 recipients of the 2025 Endowment Lab granting process. We had 10 amazing applications to review and hard decisions to make. Thank you to the students of the summer term course Money and the Mission of the Church for evaluating the grant proposals, asking clarifying questions, and selecting the winners based on Luther Seminary’s mission, vision, and values:

• Discernment Retreat, Jen Gruendler)
• Braking Bread Together, Emily Rova-Hegener) – event coming soon
• Be Still, Alison Westphal
• Environmental Sustainability for Campus Meals, Kathryn Schifferdecker and Alan Padgett – you can thank them for the plates/silverware during RFS
• Table of Light, Patty Cutshall-Bailey
• Bockman Porch Music, Stanley Ayashim – what a fun first event during fall RFS!

In this devotion, John Soyster ’79 M.Div., muses on Habakkuk’s faith and our own. Read today’s God Pause.

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a key requirement for all ELCA candidates for rostered ministry. It is also a Contextual Learning option for the M.Div. degree. Join our Contextual Learning team on Tuesday, September 30 at 11:30 a.m. CT for an info session on how, where, and when to find a site that works with your schedule. This will be a hybrid event. Register online here to attend or receive the recording.

Admissions is excited to welcome prospective students to campus this weekend. The entire Luther Seminary community is invited to worship on Saturday, September 27 at 10:45 a.m. in the chapel—we hope to see you there. Keep these prospective students in your prayers as they enter into this space of discernment.

Beginning Monday September 22, Operations is relocating all tools and and equipment from our lower maintenance garage into the white and brown utility garages along Branston Avenue on the upper campus. By September 26 these garages will be secured and accessible to operations staff only. Please remove any and all personal items—including bicycles and vehicles—from inside these garages at your earliest convenience and by September 26 at the latest. Any items remaining after this date will be disposed of.

In this devotion, Brooke (Apple) Phelps ’16 M.Div., wonders how we value the work and lives of one another and how God values each of us. Read today’s God Pause.