In 1962, when Willie Rotter was about to graduate from seminary, President Fendt handed him an envelope. “What’s this?” he asked? “Your first call,” replied Fendt. That’s how it was done. You went where they told you. End of conversation.
It has been interesting to see the candidacy process in ELCA during the time I have stayed in the US. Bishop Mike Rinehart in the Gulf Coast Synods writes an interesting blog about “the Draft” in Chicago. The blog is here: From the Seminary to the Parish | Connections.
via Stephen Zeller’s Facebook Wall.