# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S290
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First-generation
ethnic pastor for
ethnic ministry
(service where
traditional grad
unable or unlikely to
function)

Began in 2003–4

Provides a
specialized program
leading to ordination
for men engaged in
pastoral missionary
contexts in ethnic
immigrant and
other ethnic specific
ministry contexts.
DIT does the same
for deaf communities
and cultures. Both
offer a program for
women in mission
and ministry
contexts, which leads
to commissioning as
an LCMS deaconess.

Year
Program
Began

Special
Church
Needs That
Prompted
the
Program

EIIT/DIT

CHS serves as a
resource for research
and education
regarding cultural
and ecclesial realities
that seek to relate
to the distinctive
needs of Hispanic
mission and ministry
within the LCMS.
Mandate is to form
Hispanic pastors and
deaconesses for the
LCMS.

Began in 1987 as
the Hispanic Institute
of Theology under
the auspices of CSL
on CU Chicago’s
campus. In 2006,
program moved to
CSL campus, with
name change to
CHS, and became
fully integrated into
CSL’s campus,
mission, planning,
and administrative
functions.

General Hispanic
pastor (for mission
and ministry where
Spanish language
predominates)

CHS (at CSL)

Provide training in context for pastors
where the fiscal situation or ministry
context prevents the calling of a
general ministry pastor. As successor
to (and improvement over) DELTO,
the SMP program meets the Synod’s
needs for contextual, in-ministry
pastoral formation with improved
curriculum and updated instructional
technology. Men in the SMP program
are ordained more quickly than under
DELTO (after 2 years rather than
6), seeking thereby to be faithful to
AC XIV, so that men who are given
the task of preaching, teaching, and
administering the Sacraments are
ordained and recognized as pastors.
When compared, for instance, with
the MDiv or AR programs, the SMP
curriculum is intentionally designed
to require fewer courses, yet there is
intensive in-ministry formation under
a mentor/supervising pastor. Men
who complete this route are therefore
certified by a seminary faculty for call
and placement as pastors, but to a
distinct roster status category with
accompanying limitations for service
in the pastoral ministry.

Began with the 2008–9 academic
year, fall quarter. Previous program
was DELTO (Distance Education
Leading to Ordination). SMP was
authorized by 2007 Synod convention,
Res. 5-01B.

Specific ministry pastor prepared for
specific ministry contexts defined by
congregations and districts

SMP (Both Seminaries)

The need for a
master’s-level
missionary/pastoral
formation program
for those embedded
in their ministerial/
cultural context (who
otherwise could not
come to seminary)
who start new
ministries in nonAnglo or multiethnic
contexts

Began in 1995

New, sustainable,
urban, cross-cultural
church planter
following plan and
plant developed
within program

CMC

Residential alternate
route is the alternate
route most closely
parallel to the MDiv,
but it is for men
who are 35 years or
older, commissioned
ministers, or men
with significant
experience in parish
life.

Began with 1996–97
academic year, fall
quarter. Previously,
this was under the
auspices of the
colloquy program.
Colloquy was listed
by the 1992 Synod
Handbook under
Bylaw 6.87–6.99 as
listed in the 1995–96
academic catalog.

Forming general
pastors

1839

Forming general
pastors; breadth and
depth of theology
for general pastoral
ministry

MDiv Residential
(Both Seminaries)

Colloquy

Historically always
part of the LCMS
structure and culture

1847

Route to ministry in
the LCMS for pastors
trained outside of
LCMS—also 10-year
licensed lay deacons

Preparation for General Placement
Alt. Route
(Both Seminaries)

Routes to the Pastoral Office
(There is one office of the ministry of Word and Sacrament)

Programs That Prepare Men for Particular Ministry Contexts

Telos
(Program
Goal)

Appendix B