Plan to attend SAS virtual town hall

Britney Vercruysse works with her students on March 15 at Sioux Falls Lutheran School in Sioux Falls, S.D. An upcoming virtual town hall will kick off the next stage of Set Apart to Serve, the LCMS church work recruitment initiative, which seeks to raise up the next generation of pastors, teachers and other church workers. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford)

The Set Apart to Serve (SAS) team is excited to announce a Synodwide virtual town hall on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1–2 p.m. CDT, to kick off the next stage of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) church work recruitment initiative.

SAS is a collaborative effort across the Synod to equip congregations and church leaders in identifying, catechizing, encouraging and supporting boys, girls, men and women for ordained and commissioned church work vocations. The goal is to create an intentional culture of church worker formation and recruitment in every LCMS congregation, school and entity.

The town hall will include:

A brief overview of SAS;

A summary of what was learned during the SAS pilot program;

A review of resources and tools to help LCMS congregations, schools and entities in raising the next generation of church workers; and

An overview of next steps in implementing SAS in your congregation and school.

Please join the town hall on Sept. 27. Learn more about Set Apart to Serve at lcms.org/sas .

Posted Aug. 15, 2023