For Immediate Release
Thirteen Concordia University – Ann Arbor students, faculty and staff were commissioned at a daily campus chapel service on May 4th in preparation of their missionary service this summer.
Rev. Charles Schulz, Assistant Professor of Religion, has been requested by the President of the Lutheran Church in Brazil to serve as a missionary for one month this summer. He and his wife will be translating texts for the International Lutheran Council and giving advanced English lessons to the Church’s administrative staff. Rev. Schulz will also be teaching a graduate class in Portuguese at the Lutheran Seminary. The topic will be the source documents of the Formula of Concord.
In June, Nancy Reiter, Office Manager for the Office of Advancement, will lead a fifteen-member team to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia and distribute used eyeglasses through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia.
In July, student Ann Marie Hetzner and staff member Karen Neuendorf will go to Latvia to teach English as a Second Language, while students Adrienne Beyersdorf, Kimberly Fetz, Dan Kinney, Eve Oaksford, Rachel Roth, Josh Schmidt, and Shelly Steffen head to Alaska to conduct Vacation Bible School classes.
Concordia University – Ann Arbor is a liberal arts institution of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. With a distinctly Christian environment and an academic community dedicated to excellence, Concordia offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its four schools – School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, Haab School of Business and Management, and School of Adult and Continuing Education. Concordia University is accredited by NCA, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and was among the first colleges to be accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) under the new 2000 standards.
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