{"id":28,"date":"2024-11-05T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:49:06","slug":"chapel-staff-and-care-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/chapel-staff-and-care-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Staff and Care Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chapel Staff<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can contact our Chapel Staff at <a href=\"mailto:chapel@luthersem.edu\">chapel@luthersem.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Meet the Spiritual Care Team<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Purpose of Care Team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provides prayer, support, advocacy, and accompaniment for Luther Seminary students, staff, and faculty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tends holistically to the whole student and the Luther Community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emphasis on Student Support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeks to cultivate spiritual, emotional, physical, social, financial, vocational, and intellectual well-being.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meets regularly to collaborate in our shared goal to journey faithfully with the community, amid challenges and joys, for the sake of empowering student success and a healthy learning environment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Members of the Spiritual Care Team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steven Thomason<\/strong><br>Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation and Dean of the Chapel<br><a href=\"mailto:sthomason002@luthersem.edu\">sthomason002@luthersem.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stanley Ayashim<\/strong><br>Residential Life Program Coordinator<br><a href=\"mailto:sayashim003@luthersem.edu\">sayashim003@luthersem.edu<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sarah Luedtke-Jones<\/strong><br>Director of Student Affairs<br><a href=\"mailto:sluedtkejones001@luthersem.edu\">sluedtkejones001@luthersem.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chenar Howard<\/strong><br>Director of International Student and Scholar Affairs<br><a href=\"mailto:choward001@luthersem.edu\">choward001@luthersem.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tim Coltvet<\/strong><br>Director of Contextual Learning<br><a href=\"mailto:tcoltvet001@luthersem.edu\">tcoltvet001@luthersem.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jody Nyenhuis<\/strong><br>Senior Manager, Academic Achievement<br><a href=\"mailto:jnyenhuis001@luthersem.edu\">jnyenhuis001@luthersem.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Staff You can contact our Chapel Staff at <a href=\"mailto:chapel@luthersem.edu\" class=\"autohyperlink\">chapel@luthersem.edu<\/a>. Meet the Spiritual Care Team Purpose of Care Team Members of the Spiritual Care Team Steven ThomasonAssociate Professor of Spiritual Formation and Dean of the <a href=\"mailto:Chapelsthomason002@luthersem.edu\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Chapelsthomason002@luthersem.edu<\/a> Stanley AyashimResidential Life Program <a href=\"mailto:Coordinatorsayashim003@luthersem.edu\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Coordinatorsayashim003@luthersem.edu<\/a> Sarah Luedtke-JonesDirector of Student <a href=\"mailto:Affairssluedtkejones001@luthersem.edu\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Affairssluedtkejones001@luthersem.edu<\/a> Chenar HowardDirector of International Student and Scholar <a href=\"mailto:Affairschoward001@luthersem.edu\" class=\"autohyperlink\">Affairschoward001@luthersem.edu<\/a> Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-28","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.luthersem.edu\/deanofthechapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}