Current Openings (most recent openings listed first)

Seeking a full-time pastor to shepherd an LCMC-affiliated Lutheran Church holding membership in the Augsburg District. Will only consider applicants committed to preaching Biblical truths, holding a Master of Divinity degree or its equivalent, be thoroughly schooled in the Augsburg Confession and Luther's Small Catechism, and a firm adherent to the doctrine of repentance, acknowledging that "the kingdom of God is at hand".

We reside in a handsome building on a large corner lot, featuring mission-inspired architecture and located on the outskirts of historic downtown El Paso, Texas, population 750,000 souls. Our St. Paul church has served God and our community for 96 years in this place.

Our congregation is a small, but mighty, core of 60-70 faithful worshippers committed to doing Christian ministry and evangelism through church committees, prayer, regular Bible study and a traditional worship service. The median age of the congregation is 65. Our goal is to increase the number of helping hands to do outreach, grow in our personal faith, and as Resurrection people, through action and love, carry the saving gospel of Christ to all in need of hope. We, therefore, ardently seek inspired leadership to affirm and strengthen our resolve and guide us in the ways of the Holy Spirit to see through "new eyes" God's vision for His work in this place – "El Paso del Norte".

Interested, qualified applicants may contact

Mary Ann Gum, Call Committee Chair
at (915) 842-9873
or gigigum@gmail.com.

or

Eunice Goldsmith, co-Chair,
at (915) 584-0372.

Please respond by March 20, 2007.

For more information go to http://www.stpaullutheranep.org/Callcommittee.html

Updated  3-8-2007

Solo Pastor - For congregation in Gaffney, South Carolina. About one hour from Asheville and Charlotte, NC, and Greenville, SC. Located in Piedmont area of SC. Small children abound. Paid staff includes part-time youth director, organist, secretary and volunteer choir director.

Contact Person(s):
Steve Huskey, Cong President
864-488-2367

St Paul's Lutheran Church
1600 W Floyd Baker Blvd
Gaffney SC 29341

Added 08-25-05

Old Zion Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, PA, is looking for a full-time senior pastor to serve a bi-lingual congregation who can preach in German and English. Old Zion has an English service (which used the Service Book & Hymnal) and a German service every Sunday. The church is located at 628 Broad Street, near the Art Museum and City Hall.

Pastoral candidates interested in interviewing for this call are invited to send their colloquy packet (autobiographical faith statement, paper on Our Declaration, and written answers to the Augsburg colloquy questions) to the call committee chair:

Mrs. Helen Davis
Email: cantondavis@aol.com
Telephone: 610-827-7183
Website: www.OldZionLutheran.org

Added 07-07-05

You will have to dig deep to find our roots. The beginnings of Old Zion are in the German immigration to the (Colonial) East Coast from about 1690. As Philadelphia began to grow, so did the congregation.

The Swedish Lutheran pastors of the former New Sweden (Nya Sverige) colony ministered to the German Lutherans, as it turned out to be very difficult to find a German pastor able to serve the congregation for any greater length of time. Thus the still existing Swedish Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') church, built in 1699-1700, served as "our" first church.

A dramatic change occurred in 1742, when at long last there was found a German pastor willing to serve us on a more permanent basis. He was Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, from Einbeck (near Hannover), but sent out from Halle/Saale, at that time a center for Lutheran outreach and missionary activity. Pastor Mühlenberg turned out to be the right man in the right place at the right time. Under his energetic and capable leadership the congregation flourished.

Two churches, St. Michael (1743), and Zion (1766), and a school-house (1761, still existing) were built. The churches gave name to the congregation, "St. Michael-and-Zion", but in the course of time it popularly became known as "Old Zion". This has been our official name since 1984. From the early 1800s on daughter congregations were established throughout Philadelphia, reflecting the growth of the City, and of course also the gradual change from German to English as the language of worship.

"Mother" Old Zion, however, did and does retain German as one of its official service languages, which in a pre-Revolutionary church is unique in American Lutheranism. Not even the two World Wars were able to muzzle our preachers. We try not to be a museum of the past but rather be a live and living link to those that came to these shores to confess and practice their Lutheran faith. It is this faith that we hope to carry forward into the future. We are now worshiping in a beautiful Sanctuary built in 1891/92 — our fifth church, but the same joyful Gospel !

Open to call a confessional Lutheran pastor to serve a three-point parish in Northern Montana (along Highway 2). The Galata Parish consists of Galata Lutheran Church, Devon Lutheran Church, and Trinity Lutheran Church. These congregations are in the heartland of strong confessional Lutheranism (this is "Oliver K. Jones country") about 18 miles from Shelby, MT.

Please send your colloquy packet and questions to:

Mr. Art Adamson ( speara@northerntel.net )
293 S. Devon
Shelby, MT 59474

"I am just a freeloader on the grace of God!"
Rev. Oliver K. Jones

Updated 10-26-04