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The Rev. Stanley N. Olson, PhD
Thirteenth President of Wartburg Theological Seminary
10:00 AM
HOLY COMMUNION WITH INSTALLATION
St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church
THE REV. MARK S. HANSON
Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Presiding and Preaching
12:30 PM
CELEBRATION LUNCHEON
Grande Ballroom, Hotel Julien Dubuque
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RSVP by March 18, 2011
2:30 PM
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Loehe Chapel, Wartburg Seminary
“Gathered, Sent, Learning”
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The Executive Director
The Rev. Dr. Stanley N. Olson
Pastor Stan Olson has served since November 2005 as executive director for the Vocation and Education Unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
From 2002 to 2005, Olson was executive director for the Division for Ministry of the ELCA. Previously, from 1994 to 2002 he served as the bishop of the ELCA’s Southwestern Minnesota Synod. Olson was senior pastor of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in New Ulm, Minnesota, 1987-1994, and associate pastor of First Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minnesota, 1976-1983. In the years between those
two parish calls, he was a professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.Olson was raised on an Iowa diary (sic) farm. He is a graduate of two ELCA colleges (Waldorf and St. Olaf) and of Luther Seminary. He holds a doctorate from Yale University where he wrote a dissertation on the rhetorical uses of hope and confidence in New Testament and other ancient letters. He is the author of many articles and of Christian education resources for children, youth and adults.
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GJ - Policies pursued and affirmed by Olson have downsized ELCA many times now. He was a division executive, but that position was eliminated. This last position was apparently eliminated as well. I imagine they no longer pay a website developer, because the same mistake has been there for over a year, and he has been gone from this job for months.
