The Coffee Hour — Set Apart To Serve: Transition Into Pastoral Vocation

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Rev. Dr. Mark Wood — Managing Director for Church Planting, Renewal and Support with the LCMS Office of National Mission, joins Andy for our Set Apart to Serve Series to talk about his life and career before seminary, how he made the decision to pursue seminary education and church work vocation, the challenges of moving to seminary as a second career family, how seminary life was for his family, and his encouragement for men to consider second-career pastoral vocations.

Learn more about the Set Apart to Serve Initiative at lcms.org/setaparttoserve.

Feature image: The Rev. Mark Wood, director of Witness and Outreach Ministry in Office of National Mission, leads a session during The 72 Witness & Outreach Team Training on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Ill. LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford

Christ’s church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers.

Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations.

Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS:
1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers.
2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers.
3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation.

To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve.

The Coffee Hour is underwritten by Concordia University Wisconsin. Live Uncommon. Learn more at cuw.edu.

Have a topic you’d like to hear about on The Coffee Hour? Contact Andy Bates at andrew.bates@kfuo.org or call 314-996-1519.