New Interim President announced for CLS: Dr. Joel Heck
EDMONTON – Concordia Lutheran Seminary (Edmonton – CLS) publicly announced, at their Sacred Convocation on May 26, 2023, that Rev. Dr. Joel D. Heck has accepted the Call to serve as Interim President of the seminary.
In a Facebook post, CLS shared: “The CLS Board of Regents extended a Divine Call to Rev. Dr. Joel Heck on May 18 to serve as seminary President for a two-year interim while significant conversations unfold between the Lutheran Church–Canada President’s Ministry Council and the leaders from both seminaries explore what the future of ministry formation will work best for LCC.”
In the past, Dr. Heck has served on faculties and administrative posts at Concordia University Wisconsin and Concordia University Texas. He is also an Old Testament exegete and a world class C.S. Lewis scholar, who taught at CLS as Visiting Professor from January to May of 2017.
CLS shared that Dr. Heck and his wife, Cheryl, are expected to arrive in Edmonton in late July of this year and that an installation is scheduled to take place on the occasion of the CLS Opening Service on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Edmonton.
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