"Delto still waiting for start up. Current plans call for the Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan districts to work together in a DELTO cluster with CONCORDIA SEMINARY IN ST. LOUIS. (my emphasis) Paperwork for Ohio District applicants was forwarded in June. It is hoped that this Distance Education porject Leading to Ordination will be operational in the next months."

Question: Why are Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan districts working with St. Louis instead of our Fort Wayne Seminary?

How should the people of our church respond to this issue?

Rev. Thomas Chopp

Ed. Is there some political or theological reason for these Districts to bypass Ft. Wayne Seminary to work with St. Louis instead?

Wouldn't it be less expensive for these Districts to pay the expenses of those prospects for the DELTO project to go to the Ft. Wayne Seminary and become real pastors, instead of "90 day wonders?"

Is Synod creating another level of bureaucrats to administer the DELTO program? If not now, then later? We all know how these things grow.

Pastor Chopp raised some interesting questions.

"Dr. Ranken File Report" a humorous report on Improvements to the Distance Education Leading to Ordination program.

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