Lutheran Campus Ministry at KU

Wow!  The Women of Westwood (WoW) are small but mighty!

The Women of Westwood have made a $10,000 challenge gift to the “Home at the Heart of the Hill” capital campaign!   Donations to the capital campaign between now and December 31, 2010 are eligible to be matched by this challenge gift! So, the first $10,000 in donations will be doubled! What better place to make a donation than Westwood itself, at the Rev. Jerry Shaft memorial concert at Westwood Lutheran Church, starting at 6:00 pm July 30th!

Therefore Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches. Luke 13:18-19

Justin Moyers

Congratulations to Justin Moyers, who is one of three recipients of the Dr. George and Emma Torrison Medical Scholarship, awarded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The Torrison Scholarship Fund provides grants for men and women who intend to pursue careers in medicine and have been accepted in a medical school. The donors had a particular concern to encourage persons whose careers would lead them toward working to alleviate currently incurable diseases. Justin graduated this spring from the University of Kansas, and he will be attending KU Med starting this fall.

In the letter announcing Justin’s award, Stanley Olson notes:  ”Vocations in healing and health are a vital expression of goodness of God shown throughout creation”.    We join with Justin in celebrating this award, and his vocation!

From the New Orleans to Neuschwanstein, from the Rockies to the Alps, Pastor Kim and Kenneth Osborn have worn their Lutheran Campus Ministry (Free Wine, No Id Required) T shirts to some wild and wonderful places.  For more pictures of the Osborns (and their shirts) visit the photo page.   Traveled somewhere fun in your LCM shirt?  Send us your pic! Don’t have a tshirt yet?  Email us your name, address, and size and we’ll send you one! We’ll happily send you one for free, but the cost to us for each shirt is about $10, so we’ll also happily accept donations!   And, we’d love to have a picture of you wearing the shirt!

To order a shirt email your name, address and size to Dayna.

At the 2008 Synod Assembly in St. Louis, Lutheran Campus Ministry gave 200 trees to congregations and synod leaders.   Thanks to Melba Bangert, Vice President of the Central States Synod, who sent this picture of how much her tree has grown!    We’d love to see how your trees are growing!  Send us your pictures.

Charlie Maahs, Jeanette Bidne, and a Chosen Brew

Phil Vickers, Brent Schulte, and Mephistopheles

Messiah Bold, the Chosen HeBrew, Mephistopheles, Hades, the Beast, and the Holy Grail.  Beers with a religious theme were the door prizes at the Hospitality Suite for the Central States Synod Assembly sponsored by Central States Synod Lutheran Campus Ministry at the Airport Hilton Conference Center in Wichita.

Brent Schulte, a KU sophomore was one of the lucky winners, of a bottle  of Mephistopheles. Brent, who shared the bottle with his parents, Scott and Amy Schulte, is pictured here with Phil Vickers, pastor of Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hutchinson, KS.   Jeanette Bidne, intern at St. Mark’s Lutheran, Olathe, looks on.