Short videos explaining how contributions help Concordia Seminary continue the formation of pastors and Deaconesses.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 01
Dale Meyer
In this first episode, Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, program host, shares how Concordia Seminary is an important part of God’s mission. Mission Works is a weekly vblog that celebrates the significant role of its supporters. Learn more at Support
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 02
Dale Meyer
In this second episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, highlights the strides made in enrollment this year, including an increase of 55% in Master of Divinity students over last year. "Thank you donors," Meyer says. "The Lord of the church makes His mission work." Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 03
Dale Meyer
In this third episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, shares what the Seminary teaches its students about church and state. "God instituted good government for the physical good of all people," he says. "And God instituted the church for the salvation of sinners. Church and state have different purposes." Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 04
Dale Meyer and Christian Pieper
In this fourth episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, shares details about a new mentoring program that aims to teach seminarians how to work harmoniously with others under the lordship of Jesus. He also introduces concluding student Christian Pieper, who shares his thoughts about the mentoring groups — known as formation hour — and how they have helped him and others better understand themselves as whole people and be in “authentic community with one another.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 05
Dale Meyer
In this fifth episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, provides an update on the recent renovations to the Seminary’s original 12 faculty houses, one of which he lived in during his tenure. “These old homes symbolize our historic and continuing commitment to the mission of this campus,” Meyer says. Renovations are nearing completion on all of the houses including House No. 1, the President’s House. Meyer thanks the donors who made the renovations possible. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 06
Dale Meyer
In this sixth episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, offers a few messages of thanks during these trying times. "As unwelcome as the pandemic is, our Lord continues to move this mission forward," he says. "Our Lord is continuing to send laborers into the harvest." Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 07
Dale Meyer
In this seventh episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, reminds us that God is with us in times of trouble. He also shares comments from two students and the Seminary’s coordinator of Health and Wellness about how the students and the Seminary are responding to changes to the campus and instruction because of COVID-19. “God continues to give us grace and blessing,” he says. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 08
Dale Meyer
In this eighth episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, highlights the important role the Food Bank plays in the life of seminarians and thanks donors for their continued support of this important resource. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 09
Dale Meyer
In this ninth episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, shares a virtual Christmas card, reciting hymn lyrics against a backdrop of photos of campus during the Christmas season. “Christmas is an enchanting time on campus. St. Paul says, 'great indeed is the mystery of godliness.' He was manifested in the flesh," Meyer says. “From generation to generation, thank you for partnering with us in telling young and old about Jesus.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 10
Dale Meyer
In this 10th episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, shares a special message for Epiphany. “Every year the star is raised over Luther Tower,” Meyer says. “It’s a reminder to our campus community and neighbors that the true Light has come into the world.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 11
Dale Meyer
In this 11th episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, highlights a few of the many events and resources offered by the Seminary for pastors and laity to grow in faith. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 12
Dale Meyer and Todd Peperkorn
In this 12th episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, shares an update on the search for a new Seminary president from Board of Regents Chairman Rev. Todd Peperkorn. Electors will select the Seminary’s 11th president Feb. 6. “Together our Board of Regents, faculty and staff have intimate knowledge of the mission of our Seminary,” Meyer says. “They have my trust and they merit your trust. Together we anticipate that the Lord’s guidance will lead us to our new president.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 13
Dale Meyer and Mike Coppersmith
In this 13th episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, talks with Rev. Michael Coppersmith of Georgetown, Texas, about the prayer ministry he leads called Prayer Warriors. Through the ministry, Coppersmith sends a regular email prayer guide to those who want to pray for the Seminary and its mission. "You will be greatly blessed to be able to have in your hand a Prayer Warriors Update as you pray for the Seminary," Coppersmith said. "By praying for the Seminary, what you do in a sense is add after burners to the Kingdom impact that your gift is making to the Seminary by just praying for what God wants to do in and through the Seminary." To receive the Prayer Warriors Update, send a request to coppersmith.mike@gmail.com. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 14
Dale Meyer and Travis Scholl
In this 14th episode of "Mission Works: Thanks to Donors," Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program's host, talks with Dr. Travis Scholl, managing editor of Seminary Publications, about the many continuing education resources available for pastors and lay people from the Seminary. “Shouldn’t lifelong learning be a part of a pastor’s life … and part of your life too?” Meyer asks. “We want to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus. Thanks to you, our donors, Concordia Seminary offers congregations a rich array of biblical and confessional offerings for faithful and relevant ministry.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 15
Dale Meyer and Vicki Biggs
In this 15th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks with the Seminary’s Senior Vice President of Seminary Advancement and Chief Communications Officer Vicki Biggs. The two talk share an update about the call issued to Professor Thomas Egger as the Seminary’s 11th president and donations to the Seminary in the last year. Donor support, Meyer says, makes up 90% of the Seminary’s budget. “By God’s grace and with thanks to our amazing donors, December closed with terrific numbers,” Biggs said. “This is especially noteworthy in a year with a pandemic, something that hasn’t hit the United States for 100 years. Our donors love the Seminary and our students and one of the ways they show that is through their very generous gifts.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 16
Dale Meyer and Thomas Egger
In this 16th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks with President-elect Dr. Thomas J. Egger, who will become the Seminary's 11th president March 15, 2021. Egger is the Gustav and Sophie Butterbach Professor of Exegetical Theology and chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary. He's been a Seminary faculty member since 2005. "I hope that the Seminary's focus will always be on that very practical valuing of the bringing God's Word into the lives of God's people and the people who have yet to learn of the Gospel," he says. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 17
Dale Meyer and Douglas Rutt
In this 17th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks with Provost Dr. Douglas L. Rutt about missions and the role of missions in the formation of seminarians. Rutt is a former missionary to Guatemala. “We try to help all students build a mission mindset,” Rutt says. “The Word of God is meant to go out.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 18
Dale Meyer and Gary Theis
In this 18th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks with Gary Thies, founder of Mission Central in Mapleton, Iowa. Mission Central is the largest mission network that is providing support to LCMS Office of International and National Mission, also known to many people as LCMS World Mission. Every year a group of seminarians visit Mission Central to learn about the organization's mission and small town ministry. "Mission Central is a miracle place," Thies says. "It's a regional mission center. People come from all over to hear the message of the Lord's missionaries who have been called all over the world." Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 19
Dale Meyer and Leopoldo A. Sánchez
In this 19th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks with Dr. Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., who is the interim Multiethnic Symposium chairman, the Werner R.H. Krause and Elizabeth Ringger Krause Professor of Hispanic Ministries and director of the Center for Hispanic Studies at Concordia Seminary. Sanchez highlights the May 4-5 Multiethnic Symposium, which is being held online with the theme “The Rest and the West: What the West Can Learn from Global South Christianity.” “What can they teach us about theology, worship, missions?” Sanchez asks. “If Christianity is growing in the [Global] South, and that includes Lutheranism, then maybe we have something to learn from them. The largest Lutheran churches are in now in Africa, Madagascar and Ethiopia. … The largest Lutheran university is in Brazil.” Meyer also shares information about symposium sponsorship opportunities. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 20
Dale Meyer and Bruce Durazzi
In this 20th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, sits down with Dr. Bruce Durazzi, the special collections librarian in the Seminary’s Kristine Kay Hasse Memorial Library. “Libraries have changed,” Meyer says. “And the Kristine Kay Hasse Memorial Library here on campus is an inviting place and not just to Seminary students but to pastors and scholars literally throughout the world.” The men talk about the library’s many resources including its rare book collection of 8,000 volumes, one of which is J.S. Bach’s personal Bible. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 21
Dale Meyer and Glenn Nielsen
In this 21st episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, hears an update on Call Day 2021 from Dr. Glenn Nielsen, director of Placement and director of Vicarage and Deaconess Internships. Call Day is set for April 28 and can be viewed via live stream at www.csl.edu/callday. The two men talk about the number of students who will receive their vicarages, deaconess internships and first calls to pastoral or diaconal ministry this year. They also discuss the 20 congregations who will not receive a pastor this year because there are not enough pastoral candidates to meet the need. “The moral of the story is, let’s encourage recruitment for ministry,” Meyer says. “It is not good without a pastor in a congregation. … The flock needs a shepherd.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 22
Dale Meyer
In this 22nd episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, talks about the upcoming Prof Insights: Faculty-Led Workshop Series. The 2021 series includes 31 workshops online and in-person around the country May through August. The workshops offer in-depth study on contemporary topics that influence the practice of ministry and worship. The workshops provide continuing education for pastors, church workers and lay people. “Your gifts make it possible for church workers and lay people to continue learning how the Word of God speaks to our challenging times,” Meyer says to Seminary supporters. Learn more about the workshops at Workshop Series. Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 23
Dale Meyer
In this 23rd episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, highlights Call Day 2021 by sharing a few images of the campus, which show the glory of God’s creation. “It’s not only book learning that forms a student to be your pastor or deaconess,” Meyer says. “So much more important is it that our pastors and church workers know and call us to the beauty and grandeur of our God and Savior. Our campus is a place where we retreat to enjoy the beauty of God, to learn more about His love to us in Jesus, and from here we go out to share the beauty of the Gospel with others into your community, the nation and into all the world.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 24
Dale Meyer and Daniel Aleshire
In this 24th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, tackles the topic of seminaries with Dr. Daniel Aleshire, former executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, one of the Seminary’s accrediting agencies. Aleshire shares a few insights about the uniqueness of Concordia Seminary among theological schools and his outlook for theological education. “I’m hopeful because I believe deeply in the goodness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” Aleshire says. “This Christian way of being in the world is as wonderful of a way for human beings to relate to one another and the world around them, and it is a source of human flourishing from the abundance and goodness of God. I don’t think God, like you and me, is going to retire anytime soon.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
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Mission Works: Thanks to Donors 25
Dale Meyer
In this 25th episode of “Mission Works: Thanks to Donors,” Concordia Seminary President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer, the program’s host, highlights the 2021 graduates as Commencement approaches Friday, May 21. “In the world of seminaries, Concordia Seminary is a large seminary,” Meyer says. “But the need is larger. The people to reach are so, so many. Thank you for encouraging people to study for ministry.” Mission Works is a weekly vlog that celebrates the significant role of Seminary supporters and highlights how donor gifts are making a difference in the Lord’s mission. Learn more at Support.
