MLC mid-year graduation service
Filed Under: Calls, graduation, MLC
Fourteen students from Martin Luther College (MLC), New Ulm, Minn., will graduate on Dec. 19. Ten students are graduating with a degree in elementary education, and the other four in elementary-secondary education.
Four of the students are available for assignment anywhere. The other 10 are either declining assignment, deferring assignment to a later date, or are unavailable for assignment because of personal reasons, such as marriage plans.
It is unknown when the students available for assignment will be assigned. "We don't control what calls are available or how the candidates fit the needs of individual churches or congregations," says Prof. William Pekrul, public relations director at MLC. "At MLC our commission is to train men and women for service to our Lord. It is up to the Lord where they will serve him."
Also at the graduation service, 26 men and women will be recognized for completing the proper course work for synod certification, which qualifies them to teach in WELS schools.
Rev. Mark Zarling, president of Martin Luther College, says, "I pray that the Lord Jesus, who has given these gifts to the church, make them gifts to many other souls as they clearly teach others that Jesus is the gift of life eternal."
The service will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the MLC gymnasium. Pres. Zarling will preside at the service and Prof. David Sellnow will preach.
