L C M S

in 1971, and his

M.Div. and S.T.M.
from Concordia
Seminary, St.
Louis, in 1980 and
1993 respectively.
In 1996, he
received a Master
of Philosophy
degree from
Drew University,
Madison, N.J., followed by a Ph.D.
upon completion of his dissertation in
2002. The title of his dissertation is An
Examination of the Contributions of
Theodosius Harnack to the Renewal of
the Liturgy in the Nineteenth Century.
Quill has served as director of the
Russian Project at Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., since
1996. In this position, he has traveled
extensively to Russia and the former
nations of the Soviet Union; overseen the
recruitment of approximately 40 students
from Russia and the C.I.S. to study on
the Fort Wayne campus; assisted in the
establishment of Lutheran Theological
Seminary in Novosibirsk, Siberia; and
organized theological seminaries in
Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine,
Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania.
Since 2002, he has served as dean of
International Studies at Concordia
Theological Seminary. Quill teaches
liturgy, homiletics and missions.
Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr. serves as
the 16th president of Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort
Wayne, Ind.,
and as professor
of American
Christianity
and American
Lutheranism.
Rast joined the
Department of

Historical Theology in the fall of 1996 after

serving as pastor of Ascension Lutheran
Church, Madison, Tenn. (1992-96).
He received his B.A. in Theological
Languages from Concordia University
Chicago, River Forest, Ill. (1986),
and his M.Div. (1990) and S.T.M.
(1995), both with a major in Historical
Theology from Concordia Theological
Seminary. In 2003, he earned his Ph.D.
in American Church History from
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Rast is a member of the Board of Directors
for the journal Lutheran Quarterly. He also
is the chairman of the LCMS Commission
on Theology and Church Relations,
on which he has served since 2006.
In addition to writing articles on a wide
range of topics, Rast has represented
the seminary and Synod at numerous
international conferences and by teaching
in Argentina, Brazil, Tanzania, Kenya,
South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Russia,
Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic
and elsewhere throughout the world.
The greatest joy of his life, however,
comes from the time he spends with his
family. He and his wife, Amy, have three
children: Lawrence III, Karl and Joanna.
Rev. Dr. Dean
Wenthe
The Rev. Dr.
Dean Wenthe is
interim president
of the Concordia
University System
for the LCMS. He
also has served
as president
of Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.
(1996-2011), and he is currently professor
of Exegetical Theology at that institution.
He is a graduate of Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis (1971), and he received his Th.M.

from Princeton Theological Seminary,

Princeton, N.J. (1975), and an M.A. (1985)
and a Ph.D. (1991) from the University of
Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. He served as
pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Atlantic,
Iowa, and as pastoral assistant at Emanuel
Lutheran Church, New Haven, Ind.
Wenthe is the general editor of the
Concordia Commentary series (Concordia
Publishing House) and associate
editor of the Concordia Self-Study
Bible (CPH). In addition, he edited the
volume on Jeremiah/Lamentations in
the Ancient Christian Commentary on
Scripture (InterVarsity Press, 2009.)
Steven
Winkelman
Steven Winkelman
has worked in the
education field
for the past 22
years as a teacher,
administrator
and new school
developer for the
LCMS. During
the past six
years, Winkelman has worked with a
variety of LCMS, U.S. and Vietnamese
government agencies to open and operate
Concordia International School Hanoi,
where he is currently head of school.
He attended Concordia University Texas,
Austin, Texas, where he received a B.A. in
Secondary Education. He also has an M.Ed.
in Educational Leadership from Saginaw
Valley State University in Michigan. He has
served on the AmCham Vietnam Board
of Directors since 2011 and was awarded a
fellowship in 2014 through the Van Lunen
Executive School Management program.
Winkelman has extensive experience in
school development, educational consulting
and strategic planning both in the United
States and Asia. He enjoys traveling,
golf and hiking with his wife, Amy, and
teenage children, Josh and Elizabeth.

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M i ss i o n

S u mm i t :

Education, Teaching the

Faith and Mission
Nov. 19-20, 2015
Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga.
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Scott Murray
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015
12:00 p.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. Welcome, Rev. Bart Day and Rev. Gregory S. Walton, President,

Florida-Georgia District, LCMS
12:50 p.m. Introductory Remarks, Rev. Dr. Scott Murray
1:00 p.m.

 ovosibirsk: A Model for Theological Education Overseas,

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Rev. Dr. Timothy Quill

2:00 p.m.

International Schools: Lutheran Schools in a Pluralistic Society,

Steven Winkelman

3:00 p.m.

Break/Snacks

3:15 p.m.

Global Seminary Initiative: A Look to the Future,

Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III (Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr. and
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kloha, responders)

4:30 p.m.

Speaker panel discussion, the Rev. Dr. Scott Murray

5:30 p.m.

Concluding Remarks

5:40 p.m.

Break

6:00 p.m.
Banquet: A Reflection on Theological Education in the 21st
Century, Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015
7:15 a.m.

Full Breakfast

8:00 a.m.

Introductory Remarks, Rev. Dr. Scott Murray

8:15 a.m.

Teaching the Faith in the Home and School, Rev. Peter Bender

9:15 a.m. Teaching the Faith in the Parish, Dr. Mark Blanke
10:15 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m.

The Beauty of Truth: The Strategic Mission Position of the Concordia

University System, Rev. Dr. Dean Wenthe, Rev. Dr. Patrick Ferry, Rev. Dr.
Daniel Gard and Dr. Kurt Krueger

11:30 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
12:20 p.m.

Panel Discussion, Rev. Dr. Scott Murray

Itinerarium, Rev. Bart Day
Lunch

Education, Teaching the Faith and Mission

E
ducation, teaching the faith and mission have gone hand
in hand since the beginning of the church. The Proverbs
say, Train up a child in the way he should go; even when
he is old he will not depart from it (Prov. 22:6). Teaching the faith
begins in the home with parents training their children, and it
continues in the church including, but not limited to, the instruction
of church workers. The church from the earliest days has valued
education not for educations sake only, but for how it assists
in training up people in the way they should go. Mission work,
once primarily thought of as an activity flowing from the north to
the south, now is an activity that is all around us, everywhere to
everywhere. Mission work involves speaking the Gospel to those
who have not yet heard of Jesus Christ. For people to preach or
proclaim the Gospel, even as one individual does to another, they
need to be taught the faith, educated. Mission relies on education
and teaching the faith to bring the Gospel of Jesus to others.
The third-annual Mission Summit will focus on the intersection
of education (day schools, high schools, international schools,
colleges and seminaries) and teaching the faith (catechesis) in
regard to the mission of the church.

Rev. Peter C.
Bender
The Rev. Peter C.
Bender has been
pastor of Peace
Lutheran Church
and Academy
in Sussex, Wis.,
since 1991. In
1995, he led the
congregation
in forming Peace Lutheran Academy,
a classical elementary school in the
Lutheran and liberal arts traditions that
fosters a unique culture of catechesis
and prayer for the entire congregation.

for the deaconess program at Concordia

Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne,
Ind. He received his Bachelor of Music
Education degree from Concordia
University Chicago, River Forest, Ill., in
1983 and a Master of Divinity degree from
Concordia Theological Seminary in 1987.

He also is the founder and director of

the Concordia Catechetical Academy
and an adjunct professor of Catechetics

Bender and his wife, Elizabeth, have

four sons and four grandchildren.

Bender has done extensive work in the area

of Lutheran catechesis, and he is the general
editor of The Lutheran Catechesis Series
and the author of a number of volumes
in that series. Bender also served on the
Agenda Committee for Lutheran Service
Book and did extensive work on Lutheran
Service Book: Pastoral Care Companion.

Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett

The Rev. Dr. Robert
H. Bennett grew up
in Michigan, where
he served as pastor of
Our Savior Lutheran
Church of Benzonia
and Trinity Lutheran
Church and School
of Reese, Mich.
Bennett holds a B.A.
(Human Resource
Management) from
Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
and an M.Div. (Exegetical Studies), S.T.M.
(Exegetical Studies) and Ph.D. (Missiology)
from Concordia Theological Seminary,
Fort Wayne, Ind. His Ph.D. research
focused on the growth of the Lutheran
church in Madagascar. Bennetts research
led to the publishing of his first book, I
Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and
Spiritual Warfare. Bennett is the executive
director of Luther Academy, and he also
serves Concordia Theological Seminary
as an international missions specialist
and visiting professor of Missiology.
Dr. Mark Blanke
Dr. Mark Blanke
is a professor at
Concordia University,
Nebraska, Seward,
Neb. He serves as the
director of the DCE
program, the director
of Strategic Planning
for the university, the
director of University
Institutes, and the
founder and director of the Institute for
Religious Education. Prior to coming
to Concordia, he served as a parish
DCE, an elementary school principal
and on the faculty at Concordia
University Chicago, River Forest, Ill.
Blanke has a B.S.Ed., a Lutheran Teacher
Diploma, a DCE certificate, an M.S. in
Counseling and Guidance, an M.A. in
Parish Education and an Ed.D. in Adult
Education. He and his wife, Chris, live in

Seward. His daughter will be graduating

from Concordia University, Nebraska,
this year as a Lutheran teacher.

Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III

The Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III is director
of Church Relations for the LCMS. He
graduated from Concordia University,
Ann Arbor, Mich., with a bachelors degree
and earned his M.Div., S.T.M. and Ph.D.
in Systematic
Theology from
Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis.
After graduating
with his Ph.D.,
he served in the
parish and taught
at Concordia
University,
Ann Arbor.
From 2006 to
September 2010, he served as executive
pastoral assistant for LCMS World Relief
and Human Care. In addition, he has
taught at both Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis, and has written
extensively. Collver has visited Lutheran
churches in more than 50 countries and
serves as the executive secretary for
the International Lutheran Council.
Collver has published numerous articles
in various Lutheran publications
including Logia, Concordia Journal and
The Lutheran Witness. He is the author of
Bible studies for Gods Word for Today on
Ezra, Nehemiah, Hosea, Joel and Amos,
published by Concordia Publishing House.
Collver and his wife, Terra, live in
Manchester, Mo., and have two children.
Rev. Dr. Patrick T. Ferry
The Rev. Dr. Patrick T. Ferry was elected
as the eighth president of Concordia
University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis., in
July 1997 a position he still holds today.
He began his faculty career at Concordia as
an assistant professor of History in 1991.

Ferry earned his

Ph.D. in European
History from
the University
of Colorado at
Boulder (1996),
his M.A. in
History from the
same institution
(1989), his M.Div.
from Concordia
Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.
(1987), and his B.A. from St. Johns
College, Winfield, Kan. (1981).

Prior to coming to Concordia, Ferry

served as campus pastor of St. Andrews
Lutheran Campus Congregation at the
University of Wyoming in Laramie
from 1989-91. He was assistant pastor
at Wheat Ridge Lutheran Church in
Wheat Ridge, Colo., from 1987-89.
He has authored numerous articles, reviews
and essays on education, religion and
history. Most recently, he wrote Faith in
the Freshman: A Story of Hopes and Hoops.
He has also made numerous presentations
at meetings, workshops and conferences,
and he serves as a member on numerous
higher education and community boards.
Ferry is married to Tamara, and they
have five children: Peter, Hannah,
Andrew, Rachel and Stephen. They
are members of Mount Calvary
Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kloha
The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kloha received his
M.Div. and S.T.M. degrees from Concordia
Seminary, St.
Louis, and a
Ph.D. from
the University
of Leeds in
England. He
served an urban
congregation in
the Cleveland,
Ohio, area for
six years and

has taught at Concordia Seminary, St.

Louis, since 1999 in the areas of Greek,
biblical interpretation, the Pauline
Epistles, and the canonical and textual
development of the New Testament. He
is a professor of Exegetical Theology and
the provost at Concordia Seminary.

His area of research and publication is

the history of the New Testament text
and its manuscripts. He has published
articles in Novum Testamentum, Concordia
Theological Quarterly, Lutheran Theological
Quarterly and Concordia Journal. He
recently published Texts and Traditions
(Brill) and is completing a book on
the manuscripts of 1 Corinthians.
Rev. Dr. Scott R.
Murray
The Rev. Dr. Scott
R. Murray is senior
pastor of Memorial
Lutheran Church and
School, Houston, and
fourth vice-president
of the LCMS
(2010-present).
Murray graduated with a B.A. from
Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., in
1980 and earned an M.Div. from Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind.,
in 1983. He also holds an M.A. from
Loyola University and a Ph.D. from New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
His hobbies are collecting books and
listening to classical music. He is the
board chair of the Luther Academy. He is
the author of numerous journal articles,
as well as Law, Life, and the Living God
(Concordia Publishing House, 2002) and A
Year With the Church Fathers (CPH, 2011).
Murray and his wife, Maryann, have
two daughters, Anastasia and Hilary.
Rev. Dr. Timothy Quill
The Rev. Dr. Timothy Quill served as a
parish pastor for 15 years in the LCMS.
He received a B.S. in Education from
Concordia Teachers College, Seward, Neb.,