USA as a Mission Field - 5/2019

In this episode, Rev. Larry Vogel, Associate Executive Director of
the Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR), joins hosts
Rev. Dr. Steve Schave, Director of LCMS Church Planting, and Rev.
Dr. Mark Larson, Manager of Church Planting in the Mission Field:
USA initiative, to explore how the current demographics in the
United States today are profoundly affecting the church and the
implementation of its mission. About Rev. Larry Vogel: Rev. Larry
Vogel is the Associate Executive Director of the Commission on
Theology and Church Relations (CTCR). He has served in the public
ministry of the LCMS for 35 years: as a worker-priest teacher on
the Rosebud Lakota Sioux Reservation; as a missionary/pastor in
Queens (NYC) and part-time chaplain at St. Albans VA Hospital (now
VA Community Living Center); as pastor of Martin Luther Chapel and
School, Pennsauken, NJ; and, since 2009, on the staff of the CTCR.
His responsibilities include writing, editing, speaking about, and
contributing to the LCMS position on various theological questions
and societal issues, and representing the Synod in discussions with
other church bodies. He is also involved in training church workers
to deal with issues of domestic violence in their congregations and
communities. Larry and his wife Betsy have three married children
and eight grandchildren.