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Join us this Thursday, October 8, for Lunch Church with Tim Coltvet, director of Contextual Learning, who will offer a Why Jesus talk. ‘Why Jesus’ is a speaker series at Luther that invites students, faculty, staff, and alums to practice the art of testimony. Speakers answer two questions: “Why am I a Christian?” and “What difference does Jesus make in my life?” This series aims to center Jesus in our discourse here at Luther and to build community as we share our faith stories. Everyone is invited at 11 a.m. this Thursday in the OCC as we break bread together and hear from our colleague Tim Coltvet.

Welcome to week 2 of our four-week series of the Old Testament stories about people who followed God’s call to unknown places. Join us on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday as we dig deeper into this week’s text—Exodus 3:1-12. For more information, check out the Dean of the Chapel blog.

Schedule for this week:
Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Contemplative Practice in the Meditation Chapel and on Zoom (link in email).

Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Service of Holy Communion in the Chapel of the Incarnation and livestreamed.

Thursday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Lunch Church with Tim Coltvet in the OCC Dining Room

Anytime. Share your prayer requests

If you are interested in volunteering for worship—occasionally or regularly—this year, please add you’re name to this Google sheet.

Please extend a warm welcome to Chris Kampa, who joins us this week as chief financial officer for both Luther Seminary and Augsburg University. Chris brings significant leadership experience in finance and operations, capital planning, investment banking, public sector administration, and organizational transformation. Most recently, he served as director of finance and operations for Cambridge-Isanti Schools. In this shared role, he will split time between Luther and Augsburg. Welcome, Chris!

INVITE is a group on campus committed to “integrating nonviolence into theological education.” This group has been around since 2002. Several of the people who began it are now pastors locally who are living into this work with their congregations. This fall INVITE has already had people attend a Kingian nonviolence training at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and gather to raise awareness around Indian Boarding Schools and their aftermath in the US. On October 13, we will join with ICOM (the interfaith coalition on immigration) in their monthly vigil at the Whipple Building by MSP airport. Join us that morning at 7:30 a.m. for an interfaith prayer vigil—a peaceful, nonviolent, prayerful way to bear witness to the challenges facing our immigrant communities and to be present to our beloved neighbors. Contact Mary Hess for information about INVITE and to be put on our email list.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15) with these Luther Seminary Library resources, including this brief bibliography of Hispanic Ministry and Latinx Theology.