# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S291
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

EIIT and DIT
provide a basic
understanding of
Lutheran theology
and practice within
the context of the
deaf community
or the context of
first-generation,
non-Anglo
cultures, leading to
certification as a
rostered pastor or
deaconess of the
LCMS.

ca. 70

Not provided

Specific
Needs Not
Addressed
in Other
Programs

Total
Number
of Pastors
Produced

Program
Completion
Rates (Past
5 Years)

EIIT/DIT

In the past 10 years,
the completion rate
for pastoral students
admitted is 72%.

74 since the mid1990s. Since 2006–7,
the average number
of pastoral graduates
is 7 to 8 per year.
18 deaconesses
have finished their
program.

Pastoral and
deaconess
formation for US
Hispanics (primarily
immigrants) whose
first or primary
language is Spanish
and are serving
in US Hispanic
missions where
Spanish is a major
component of these
missions

CHS (at CSL)

CSL retention rate is 85% since the
first graduates in 2012, according to
CSL.
Ca. 90% of CTSFW students who
started the program have completed it
or are still in the program.

CTSFW—48
CSL—163

The SMP program allows a route to
ordination when the typical seminary
formation experience is not possible.
This meets the needs of situations
where a called worker is needed
but the congregation is not able to
call a general ministry pastor. The
SMP program provides contextual
training for a specific ministry as
identified by the congregation and
allows for the candidate to provide
ordained ministry where otherwise
not provided. Although a candidate is
identified locally (and already meets
many of the spiritual and personal
qualifications), the ministry context
prevents him from coming into a
residential program and provides
advantages for ministerial formation
within the context of service.

SMP (Both Seminaries)

ca. 95%

50

CMC provides a
comprehensive
theological education
leading to general
pastoral certification
with an emphasis
on cross-cultural
mission planting,
with the goal of a
new, sustainable,
urban, crosscultural plant and
new mission start
developed within the
program.

CMC

Past 5 years
provided begins with
the academic year
where all students
have completed their
program. Those that
began 2010 to the
present are either still
attending classes, on
vicarage, or withdrew
from the program.

CTSFW
(residential)—127
CSL—85 since 1996

The residential
AR provides a
comprehensive
theological
education with
extensive grounding
in theology and
practice, exegetical
skills based on
Greek language,
and ministerial
formation leading
to certification as a
general pastor for
those with significant
church experience.

Alt. Route
(Both Seminaries)

MDiv Residential
(Both Seminaries)

Unknown

Unknown, but
many. On average,
approximately 15–20
per year.

We need a means
for pastors trained
outside of the LCMS
to be examined
and certified for call
and placement in
the LCMS. In some
cases, the pastors
also are able to bring
their congregations
into the Synod. In
1998, the Synod
also provided that
licensed lay deacons
involved in Word and
Sacrament ministry
as de facto pastors
are eligible to apply.

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