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	July 14, 2005 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 52

	Muench joins 'Ministerial Growth' as full-time exec

	Rev. David A. Muench of Wildwood, Mo., began serving July 5 as
the first full-time executive director for the Synod's Commission on
Ministerial Growth and Support (CMGS).

	Dr. Bruce Hartung has served as the commission's part-time
executive director since the mid-1990s. Since 2002 -- when he retired
from that position and became an associate professor of practical
theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis -- Hartung has been the CMGS
executive director on a contract basis.

	Muench, 53, is an LCMS clergyman and licensed marriage and
family therapist who has been associate pastor at St. John Lutheran
Church, Ellisville, Mo., since 1999. As he joins the Synod staff, he
leaves the post of executive director of Windgate Christian Counseling,
a separate ministry of St. John.

	Before coming to St. John, Muench was regional director of
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, and served at Synod congregations
in Houston, St. Louis, and Utica, Neb., as teacher, director of youth
ministries, and pastor.

	He earned a bachelor's degree from Concordia College (now
University), Seward, Neb., in 1975; a master of divinity degree from
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1986; and the degree of master of
science in human development and the family from the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1995.

	Muench and his wife, Mary, have three sons and three daughters,
as well as three grandchildren.

	According to the Synod Bylaws, the CMGS -- formed by the 1989
Synod convention at Wichita -- provides opportunities for continuing
education and vocational growth for the Synod's workers, and advocates
for their care and counsel "to support them in the performance of their
official duties" and supports theirs and their family members' "personal
well-being."

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