Title: ELCA Marks 90 Years of Lutheran Campus Ministry
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
August 20, 1997
ELCA MARKS 90 YEARS OF LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY
97-CA-47-DM
PHILADELPHIA (ELCA) Going to college for 90 percent of youth from
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America means going to a non-ELCA
college or university. But it need not mean losing contact with their
church.
Nearly all ELCA college students today have a Lutheran Campus
Ministry available to them. The 90th anniversary of campus work, which
began at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, was marked with a
celebration at ELCA Churchwide Assembly held here, Aug 14-20.
"Campus ministry is a key ministry in this church ... for producing
the next generation of leaders for the 21st century," said the Rev. W.
Robert Sorensen, executive director of the ELCA's Division for Higher
Education and Schools.
The ELCA honored Lutheran Campus Ministry by reviewing its history
during a program at the Heritage and Hope Village in the Pennsylvania
Convention Center and by presenting a plaque to the Rev. James R. Carr,
ELCA's director for campus ministry.
Also honored during the program was the Lutheran Student
Movement-U.S.A., a pan-Lutheran organization for college students that is
celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Sorensen also cited LSM-USA as
a key component for producing church leaders.
Sorensen said the celebration recognized both Lutheran Campus
Ministry and the Lutheran Student Movement "for the thousands upon
thousands of leaders, both clergy and lay, who have come through these
ministries into the church for these many, many years."
Lutheran Campus Ministry is staffed by 144 pastors and lay
professionals. More than 800 parishes also work with LSM to provide
ministry to college communities that are without campus-ministry staff.
For information contact:
Ann Hafften, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask]
http://www.elca.org/co/news/current.html
