Election Announcement and Prayer Service Set for Saturday, May 18

The election of the seventeenth president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (CTSFW), will be held this Saturday, May 18, and will be followed by an announcement and brief prayer service at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) in Kramer Chapel. The service will be livestreamed at ctsfw.edu/daily-chapel, on Facebook, and on YouTube.

The four candidates on the final slate, all of whom are CTSFW faculty members, include Dr. Jon S. Bruss, Dr. Charles A. Gieschen, Dr. Gifford A. Grobien, and Dr. Todd A. Peperkorn. The slate was finalized in April by the designated electors: the CTSFW Board of Regents (voting individually), the president of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), the chairman of the LCMS Board of Directors, and the district president representative on the CTSFW Board of Regents. Finalists will participate in interviews with the electors on campus before Saturday’s election.

Please keep the candidates, the electors, and the Seminary in your prayers this week.

For more details about the presidential search, visit ctsfw.edu/presidential-search.

Watch the Announcement Online

Other CTSFW livestreams this week (all Eastern time):

Baccalaureate Matins: May 17 at 10 a.m.
Organ Recital by Dr. Paul Grime: May 17 at 2 p.m.
Commencement: May 17 at 4 p.m.

You can watch all our livestreams on Youtube, Facebook and on our website at ctsfw.edu/daily-chapel.

About Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne

Founded in 1846, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, forms servants of Jesus Christ in a vibrant, Christ-centered theological community that engages and resources the church and the world, domestically and internationally, with distinctively Lutheran teaching, practice, and worship. To learn more, visit ctsfw.edu.