YCGL - Nov 6, 2024 - Laramie - Don't Stop the World, I Don't Want To Get Off, But It Could Slow Down a Little - Draft
Whoa! What a couple of weeks this has been. Early September-October 19th We celebrated our 140th Anniversary at my church, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on October 19th. For some reason, I was on the organizing committee. However, rather than being in charge of plates and silverware and such, I was asked to write and present a history of the Internship program which I helped start in 1995 and which lasted until 2014. And since I was chairman of the Internship Committee for that whole period of time, it kind of made sense, and I really couldn't duck out of it. And I volunteered to coordinate our keynote speaker who I've been in contact with in the last couple of years. Kristin Johnston Largen was our first intern, who, after graduating from Wartburg Seminary, went on and obtained a PhD in Comparative Theology at Berkeley. She taught at Gettysburg Seminary for many years and became the Dean of Students. And she is now the president of Wartburg Seminary, so has