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Hello and welcome to Mission Works,

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Thanks to donors.

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I'm Dale Meyer.

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What are the most invigorating aspects of Life at Concordia

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Seminary is our emphasis upon missions. Today

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we are going to talk with Dr.

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Douglas Rutt who's Ministry has been both missions and Theological

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education.

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Welcome Doug and one of my great honors over the years to work with

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you.

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Tell us about your own mission experience? Sure, well we first went from Seminary to

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the mission field in Central America, Guatemala, Guatemala City and went

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there as a vicar. I was there for two years and then went back after

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finished after I finished Seminary.

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So that's the area where we worked as field missionaries.

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After that, I continued to work with our Mission Board staff here for

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many years supervising the Latin American fields. And then most

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recently before coming here to the Seminary

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I was the International Director for Lutheran Hour Ministries. And was

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involved with missionary Mission work in media

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basically Christian Media Mission work in 40 different countries

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around the world.

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So among other things the Lord prepare you for your work here

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Concordia Seminary because you did missions you did theological

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education.

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Now, you have a sabbatical coming up and and tell us about the project

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you're going to work on during your sabbatical. Well I got a couple of projects.

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One is the looking through some of the materials that we received

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from the pioneering missionary in Guatemala, Reverend Robert

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Gusick. And so we received all of his archives in all of his library

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and I plan to spend some time and write an article or two based on the

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things that I'll discover there about him.

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I studied him for a number of years now.

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So I have some directions where I might go and then I also want to

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study the other I think very important figure in our Missouri Synod

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Mission history.

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And that's that's Dr.

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Henry Nau who was the president of the same thing theological

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education and Mission work. He was the president of the Immanuel Lutheran

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college for 25 years in Greensboro, North Carolina. But had been a

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missionary in India also a missionary in Nigeria and was very very

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interested in Mission work among Muslims.

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How is Mission were changed over the years?

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Well, one thing I would say is that today a missionary who goes and

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serves overseas

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for example, it's it's more difficult to become immersed in the local

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culture really because there's so much communication capability that

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we have today most missionaries have cable or satellite.

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They can watch television channels.

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They've got internet access and so sometimes those things can be a

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distraction

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I think. I've even heard of mission organizations that don't allow

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their missionaries to have internet.

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We don't do that in our church body. And it's a blessing too I mean God gave us these tools

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for the extension of his kingdom too I believe that. Well I'm sure

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that when COVID broke out that instant communication was it was

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a blessing between the United States and and whatever Mission field it

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happened to be.

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Oh, yeah, definitely and I think you know thinking of my time with

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Lutheran Hour, it was just the appropriate medium to continue Mission

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work because that's they use basically besides

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radio and television but also a social media and the internet and

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other kinds of tactics that have been we're already we were already

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working on but now have just become the front and center.

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Will you please talk about the role of missions here in the formation

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of students at Concordia Seminary? Sure, well we try to make help all students build a mission

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mindset.

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In other words, wherever they end up serving whether that be in a

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parish or a mission situation or even a hospital chaplain or a

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military chaplain, but they have this Mission mindset and that the

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word of God is meant to go out.

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It's meant to go out and so we try to help students at every stage

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understand how they can have that mission mindset themselves as well

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as they may instill that in the congregations that they might go

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serve. So, you know in a nutshell, I think that's basically what what

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it's about. One aspect of that here at the Seminary is our church.

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Planting track tell us about that? That is a special track for students

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who through the through some of the testing that we do with new students

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when they come on campus with they can kind of understand themselves

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better.

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But as a part of that we've also been able to identify the kind of

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characteristics of personality characteristics that would lend itself

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or app that lets a plant a new congregation in the new town or a new

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city or serve as a missionary overseas.

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And so then when a student is is identified like that, they're talked to

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about when they consider this the interested in it.

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And then from there they they can take other special classes and other

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special training to help prepare them for that service.

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Thank you.

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Dr.

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Rutt.

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This is really been fascinating a learning experience for me

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and I trust for you our audiences as

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well. Thank you for joining us. As you can see your support for

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Concordia Seminary helps fulfill the Great Commission of Our Lord to

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go into all the world and

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preach the gospel to all peoples. Mission Works.

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Thanks to our Lord and thanks to you our donors.