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	April 28, 2005 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 28

	COP places 169 candidates,
	assigns 241 in vicarages

	Candidates for pastoral ministry ? 169 in all ? were placed by
the Synod?s Council of Presidents (COP) during their April 22-27
meeting
that included participation in call day worship services at the two LCMS
seminaries.

	The COP also assigned 241 men to vicarage service during the
2005-06 academic year.

	The 169 candidates included 64 from Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne; 99 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; one from
Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario; three
through pastoral colloquy and two from the Ethnic Pastor Certification
Program.

	Ten men remain to be placed, according to Rev. Vernon Schindler,
president of the South Dakota District and COP secretary. ?Some calls
are pending as congregations complete their paperwork and some men have
academic work to complete,? he said. ?They will eventually be
placed.

	The COP assigned all the vicars available through the
seminaries? M.Div. and Alternate Route programs. The total included 74
from Fort Wayne, 166 from St. Louis, and one from St. Catharines.
Twenty-two requests for vicars were not filled.

	As of April 1, 357 LCMS congregations were calling a full-time
pastor, 49 were calling senior pastors, and 68 were calling assistant or
associate pastors, according to reports from the districts. Another 402
congregations with vacancies are not calling, but have arranged services
from retired pastors or neighboring congregations.

	The COP assigned four deaconess interns from Fort Wayne and
seven from St. Louis in U.S. locations. Pending completion of
arrangements, three interns from Fort Wayne were placed in the Dominican
Republic, Lithuania, and Russia. One intern from St. Louis will be
assigned to Guatemala.

	Also placed during the COP meeting were 125 commissioned
ministers who are prepared to serve as teachers, directors of Christian
education, and other roles in LCMS congregations. They are graduates of
the 10 LCMS Concordia colleges and universities. ?We expect to place
at
least two times that many during our September meeting,? Schindler
said.

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