
FROM WAYNE MENKING
The Wartburg Board of Directors voted on November 7 to close our Master of Divinity program, but it voted at the same time to maintain our non-degreed program. This is important because it means that LSPS is not closed and it will be the one way that we continue to live out our mission to prepare women and men for ministry in Hispanic
cross-cultural borderland realities. The closing of the Master of Divinity program is effective at the end of this fiscal year (June 30, 2009). Even though the program will close, we are working on a way that our current interns and middlers will be able to return for their final year next year. The people that are most affected are our current juniors, and we are looking for transfer options to neighboring seminaries.