Set Apart To Serve

Learn about church work programs at LCMS universities

Set Apart to Serve has prepared webpages with information about how the church is meeting the need for church workers through its educational institutions. 

Connect with ‘Set Apart to Serve’ at convention

Set Apart to Serve, the LCMS church work recruitment initiative, will have a significant and visible presence at this summer’s Synod convention in Milwaukee.

‘Too joyous not to share’: News from ‘Set Apart to Serve’

The Rev. Dr. James Baneck, executive director of the LCMS Office of Pastoral Education, provides an update on the church work recruitment initiative.

‘Set Apart to Serve’ launches pilot program

In the coming months, each participating site will use SAS resources to discuss full-time church work with their youth and develop long-term plans for nurturing potential church workers in their locations.

‘The harvest is plentiful’: Set Apart to Serve gains Synodwide support

Many across the LCMS are collaborating on the initiative to form and recruit new church workers.

SAS launches second career focus

The initiative will seek to encourage church work as a second career path for adults already in the workforce.

Pilot program to test SAS resources

Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is a Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod effort launched in 2019 to raise up future church workers.

Celebrate church workers in October

Find ways to show gratitude and support for church workers.

‘Reporter’ supplement: Pastoral Education — Let’s talk about church work

The Set Apart to Serve initiative is calling on the whole Synod to foster and encourage future LCMS church workers.