Concordia Lutheran Seminary

President & Governance

Strategic Plan

Strengths

  • CLS has a strong grounding in confessional Lutheranism.
  • CLS has a 10 year ATS accreditation.
  • CLS is small which allows us to individually know each student and to serve as a model community – small group leadership a possibility.
  • CLS can be responsive to the needs of the Seminary community and church.
  • CLS is able to communicate directly with one another.
  • CLS has a committed and competent faculty and staff.
  • CLS has committed donors.
  • CLS is accredited.
  • CLS has growing endowment funds.
  • CLS has supportive churches willing to partner in forming seminarians through field work program.
  • The Mission Study Centre has been well received and adds a unique element to the education offered by the seminary.

Opportunities

  • Our church body is receptive to financially support the Seminary’s mission.
  • CLS has the opportunity to provide pastors to the LCC that desire to be servants for Christ’s sake.
  • CLS exists in close proximity to Concordia University College of Alberta, to the ABC District – expertise, contact with the church.
  • CLS enjoys close proximity to three local seminaries.
  • CLS is able to provide Service to laity and pastors in Western Canada.
  • CLS has ability and desire to be innovative with programs.
  • CLS has several trained and capable adjunct professors.
  • CLS is open to a variety of models for ministry.

Challenges

  • Respond appropriately to the manifold but unforeseeable changes the future will bring
  • Providing distance education with the present resources of people and money
  • Preparing students to serve in extraordinary ministries
  • Visioning a new model for forming pastors for ministry in LCC
  • Vision a future much differently then the past
  • Create an environment of care and concern within the seminary community
  • Implementation of a curriculum review

Niche

  • CLS is one of two seminaries in Lutheran Church—Canada.
  • CLS serves confessional Lutheranism in western Canada.

Goals

  • Curriculum review to serve the church and community
  • Provide for the growth of a diversified student body, to meet the needs of the church and society
  • Call the fifth faculty member
  • Increase the financial vitality of the institution
  • Improve communication with the church