The Rev. Donald Pritchard of Pleasant Plains, Ill., left, makes a point during LCMS Specialized Pastoral Ministry’s (SPM) March 10-11 gathering in St. Louis of 10 emergency-services chaplains who beta-tested an ecclesiastical-endorsement process for such chaplains. Listening are the Rev. Joel Hempel, center, the Synod’s manager of SPM, and the Rev. Frank Ruffatto of Charleston, W.Va. (LCMS Communications/Joe Isenhower Jr.)
