“Ambassadors for HRIST, C “ Join your Virginia Synod colleagues for this time of continuing education, worship, fellowship and renewal! Registration will start at 12:30 on Monday the 14th The Reverend Dr. Sammeli Juntunen is head pastor of the Lutheran Church in Savonlinna, Finland, which has over 31,000 members. He studied with Professor Tuomo Mannermaa and received his doctorate with highest distinction. He has served as a youth pastor and taught Ecumenics at Helsinki University. He was an official delegate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland to the General Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Stuttgart in 2010, and is a member of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The Reverend Dr. Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, a Docent of the Evanjelicka Bohoslovecka Fakulta in Bra- tislava, and Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology. He is author of Paths Not Taken , Luther and the Beloved Commu- nity , Divine Complexity, Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze (co-authored with Brent Adkins) and forthcoming Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism . He earned his PhD from Union Theological Seminary, NY, in 1983, his MDiv from Christ Semi- nary-Seminex in 1978 and his BA from Concordia Senior College in 1974. He was ordained in a predecessor body of the ELCA in 1978. Ambassadors“ for HRIST “ C The Reverend Tobby Eleasar , president of the New Guinea Island District of the Evangeli- cal Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea . Dr. Kathryn Kleinhans is Professor of Religion at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, where she has taught since 1993. An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, she holds a Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.Div. from Christ Seminary – Seminex, and a B.A. from Valparaiso University. Her scholarship focuses on the contemporary relevance of Martin Luther and Lutheran confessional theology. Dr. Kleinhans describes herself as having one foot firmly planted in the 16th century and the other firmly planted in the 21st century. In addition to her scholarly publica- tions, she is eager to make Lutheran theology relevant for Christians today through popular articles and devotional writings. Her "Lutheranism 101" remains the most frequently requested reprint in the history of The Lutheran magazine. She and her husband, Pastor Alan R. Schulz, are the parents of two adult sons, Christopher and Paul. We will meet at the Quality Inn and Suites, Virginia Beach Following the Gathering of the Ministerium there will be a PrePrePre-Pre ---RetirementRetirement Seminar on Thursday, October 17 from 9:00 am –––6:00–6:00 pm .