News & Updates
News & Updates
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Meet the Board
Meet the Board
Rev. Sonja Gerstenberger, President
Pastor, St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Ames
Ron Zelle, Vice President
Director of Administration, St. Paul Lutheran Church & School, Waverly
Janet Melby, PhD, Secretary
Director, Child Welfare Research and Training Project and Adjunct Professor Human Development and Family Studies
Iowa State University
Barb Hamilton, Treasurer
Iowa State Alumni Association
Nick Milbrodt
Engineer, JEO Consulting Group
Gretchen Mosher, PhD
Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University
Rev. Lauri Boysen
Pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Atlantic
Bishop Amy Current, Advisory
Bishop, Southeastern Iowa Synod
Hannah Bensen, ISU Student representative
Bishop Kevin Jones, Advisory
Bishop, Northeastern Iowa Synod
Bishop Lorna Halaas, Advisory
Bishop, Western Iowa Synod
The LCM Board meets monthly via Zoom and is currently engaged in visioning and discernment about the future of ministry at Iowa State University. Click below to read updates from the Board of Directors.
LCM Board hires Pr. Erika Uthe
LCM Board hires Pr. Erika Uthe
You may have seen that the Board recently announced it is excited to be working with Pr. Erika Uthe, the Interim Redevelopment Pastor for LCM. Her primary responsibilities include:
You may have seen that the Board recently announced it is excited to be working with Pr. Erika Uthe, the Interim Redevelopment Pastor for LCM. Her primary responsibilities include:
leading the board in continued strategic discernment
writing for grants and planning fundraising efforts
fostering communication and relationship building
planning for restart efforts
Pastor Uthe served as the Director of Evangelical Mission for the Southeastern Iowa Synod, ELCA, for 8 years, is an ISU and LCM alum, and serves a part-time call in Lisbon, Iowa. She brings skills and experience walking congregations through discernment, redevelopment, and renewal.
Pastor Uthe served as the Director of Evangelical Mission for the Southeastern Iowa Synod, ELCA, for 8 years, is an ISU and LCM alum, and serves a part-time call in Lisbon, Iowa. She brings skills and experience walking congregations through discernment, redevelopment, and renewal.
The Board is excited for the gifts and experience Pastor Uthe brings and for her partnership as we take the next steps on behalf of LCM-Ames. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Pastor Uthe.
A note from Pastor Uthe:
“I am deeply grateful to enter into partnership with Lutheran Campus Ministry at Iowa State during this time of redevelopment. As a student at Iowa State, LCM deeply shaped my own faith journey and I can definitively say that LCM is the reason I am a pastor (and Lutheran) today.
There are already a lot of moving pieces as the Board and I seek the best way forward for a sustainable ministry presence at Iowa State. I look forward to getting to know many of you over the next several months and invite your prayers for the ministry. We know that the Spirit continues to guide and shape each of us and the work we do, and we believe the Spirit continues to call us to provide a witness on the Iowa State campus.
This summer I hope to collect and share stories of how LCM has impacted generations of students.
Connect with Pr. Uthe: lutherancampusministryisu@gmail.com and stay tuned for more news, including the release of a new website.
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