MLS calls new president
Filed Under: Ministerial Education, MLS
On Sept. 16, the governing board of Michigan Lutheran Seminary (MLS), Saginaw, called Rev. Michael Jensen as the school's new president. Jensen currently serves as education, youth, and family pastor at St. Mark's, Watertown, Wis.
"I support worker training, pray for it, and support it in every way I can," Jensen says. "Now to be asked to be part of it on a daily basis, well, it's a privilege even to consider such a thing."
A 1992 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Jensen also has served at St. Mark, Green Bay, Wis., and Our Savior's, East Brunswick, N.J. In each congregation, he has always worked closely with the school. "A congregation that is blessed with a school really is blessed," he says.
The position of president at Michigan Lutheran Seminary became vacant in April when former MLS president Rev. Paul Prange accepted the call to be administrator of the Board for Ministerial Education. Rev. Jonathan Schroeder and Rev. Earle Treptow have already returned calls to serve in this position.
"Whether I end up serving at MLS or not, we all need to treasure the [ministerial education] system, work hard to maintain it and make it better, and support it with our prayers and offerings so that we have workers who can go out into the mission fields, and into the congregations, and into the classrooms," says Jensen.
