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	May 23, 2005 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 39

	Meyer accepts call to serve as seminary president

	Dr. Dale A. Meyer has accepted the call to serve as the 10th
president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

	Meyer has served as the seminary's interim president since
November. He succeeds Dr. John F. Johnson, who left the post to become
president of Concordia University, River Forest, Ill.

	Meyer, 58, announced his decision during the seminary's
commencement exercises May 20.

	"Our service at Concordia Seminary reflects the mind of Christ.
We move forward with eyes fixed on the One who says 'Follow Me,'" Meyer
said. "Mindful of my weaknesses, I accept your call to be the 10th
president of Concordia Seminary. 'Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but
to Your name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness'" (Ps.
115:1).

	Meyer's announcement was met with a standing ovation from the
graduates and hundreds of guests who filled the seminary's main
quadrangle.

	Meyer also announced his decision to accept the call in his May
22 "Meyer Minute," an e-mail and audio "thought for the day" service he
provides.

	"Like any modern institution of higher learning, there are major
issues to address (financial support, governance, distance learning,
ethnic diversity, and many others)," he said. "But two themes must
dominate all others: love for God and love for people. The pastors we
train must be experts in the Bible, ready to apply the eternal Word of
salvation to the daily lives of people. Therefore, they must love
people, not just calculating how to make them church members but caring
for all people selflessly and with no ulterior motive."

	Meyer has hosted the television program "On Main Street" since
1994, and served as speaker of "The Lutheran Hour" radio program from
1989 to 2001.

	He joined the Concordia Seminary faculty from 1981 to 1984 and
again in 2001, serving most recently as professor of practical theology
and occupant of the Gregg H. Benidt Memorial Chair of Homiletics and
Literature. He also has served the church-at-large in various
administrative positions, including LCMS third vice president from 1995
to 1998.

	Meyer is a 1969 graduate of Concordia Senior College, Fort
Wayne, Ind., and holds a master of divinity degree from Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis (1973); a doctor of philosophy degree from
Washington University, St. Louis (1986); and an honorary doctor of
divinity degree from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (1993).
He also has served as pastor of congregations in Illinois from 1974 to
1988.

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