This week, CUAA alumni at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne received their calls or vicarage placements.


Second-year seminary students receive vicarage and internship assignments while fourth-year students receive their first calls to serve as pastors and deaconesses in Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod congregations throughout the country.

We congratulate and celebrate our most recent crop of Concordia University Ann Arbor alumni who received their placements and calls this week. We pray the Lord’s blessings on their ministry work ahead.

Those who received vicarage assignments:

Alexander Hinojosa | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio

Alexander Kauffman | Divine Redeemer Lutheran Church in Hartland, Wisconsin

Sean McNeil | Grace Lutheran Church in Muncie, Indiana

Sean Sheppard | Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Those who learned of their pastoral calls:

Brandon Bettcher | St. Paul Lutheran Church in Napoleon, Ohio

James Haugen III | St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Holgate, Ohio

Blake Martzowka | Christ Lutheran Church in Mantua, Ohio and St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Streetsboro, Ohio

Joel Werner | Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church in Livonia, Michigan


Want in?

The good work of preparing future leaders for the Church continues at CUAA today. We invite you to explore whether God is calling you to join the ranks of Concordia alumni who serve Christ as church workers throughout the world.