Matthew C. Harrison

Matthew C. Harrison
Matthew C. Harrison

LCMS President
Rev. Matthew C. Harrison
Photo by Kris Bueltmann
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Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Born March 14, 1962
Sioux City, Iowa
Education Morningside College, Sioux City (1984); Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (1989)
Spouse Kathy Harrison ('nee Schimm)
Children Two sons
Church Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Ordained 1991
Congregations served St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Westgate, Iowa
Zion Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Offices held Executive Director, LCMS World Relief/Human Care

Matthew C. Harrison (born March 14, 1962 in Sioux City, Iowa) is the 13th and current President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. He was elected to the presidency on July 13, 2010 at its 64th regular convention held in Houston, Texas. Rev. Harrison officially took office on September 1, 2010, and was formally installed at a service on September 11, 2010 at Concordia Seminary St. Louis.[1] He was elected by a 54 - 45% margin on the first ballot.[2]

Rev. Harrison previously served as the Executive Director of the Department of LCMS World Relief and Human Care, and founding president of the LCMS Housing Corporation (also known as Lutheran Housing Support.)

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Early years

Matthew Harrison was born in Sioux City, Iowa on March 14, 1962. He was baptized at Bethel Lutheran Church in Lawton, Iowa. He grew up in Sioux City, where his family belonged to Redeemer Lutheran Church. He graduated from Sioux City East High School in 1980 and Morningside College in 1987.[3] Harrison attended seminary at Concordia Theological Seminary at which he earned a Master of Divinity and, in 1991, a Master of Sacred Theology degree.[4] He is enrolled in the Doctor of Philosophy program of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis.

Ministry

Matthew Harrison's first parish was in Westgate, Iowa.[4]

Harrison served as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana during the 1990s. During his ministry at Zion, the urban decay around the church moved him to join with St. Peter Catholic Church and community leaders to revitalize the Hanna-Creighton neighborhood. This joint effort recruited investors to clear many dilapidated homes, restore others and build new ones in that ten block area. The effort was a success and led to the construction of a new branch of the Allen County Public Library and an office for the Fort Wayne Urban League in the neighborhood. This initiative continues in the City of Fort Wayne's Renaissance Pointe project.[5]

In his role as head of LCMS World Relief beginning in 2001, Rev. Harrison made several trips to work with those in need in among the slums of Kibera, Kenya and in other East African countries. He worked in Asia following the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and in Louisiana in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. He also spent several months in early 2010 coordinating LCMS aid in Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Works

As author

As translator and editor

  • Gerhard, Johann. Meditations on Divine Mercy: A Classic Treasury of Devotional Prayers. Saint Louis: Concordia Pub. House, 2003.
  • Löhe, Wilhelm, Holger Sonntag, Adriane Dorr, and Philip Hendrickson. Löhe on Mercy: Six Chapters for Everyone, the Seventh for the Servants of Mercy, 1858-1860. [Mercy insights series]. St. Louis: Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, World Relief and Human Care, 2006.
  • Sasse, Hermann. Christ and His Church: Essays by Hermann Sasse. With Ronald R. Feuerhahn and Paul T. McCain. Office of the President of the LCMS, 1997.
  • Sasse, Hermann. The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters. With Ronald R. Feuerhahn, eds. and trans. 2 vols. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 2001.
  • Sasse, Hermann. Union and Confession. With Ronald R. Feuerhahn and Paul T. McCain. Office of the President of the LCMS, 1997.
  • Walther, C.F.W., Friedrich Wyneken, H. C. Schwan, Franz Pieper, Friedrich Pfotenhauer, W. Sihler, and Theodor Julius Brohm. At Home in the House of My Fathers: Presidential Sermons, Essays, Letters, and Addresses from the Missouri Synod's Great Era of Unity and Growth. [Fort Wayne, IN]: Lutheran Legacy, 2009.
  • Women Pastors?: The Ordination of Women in Biblical Lutheran Perspective: a Collection of Essays. With John T. Pless, eds. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 2009.

References

  1. ^ http://www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=602
  2. ^ http://www.lcms.org/pages/convention_internal.asp?NavID=17027.
  3. ^ "Sioux City native new LCMS president" Sioux City Journal (July 17, 2010).
  4. ^ a b Sioux City Journal
  5. ^ Rosa Salter Rodriguez, "New Lutheran synod boss is ex-city pastor Helped to revamp Hanna-Creighton, led Zion Lutheran." Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (July 15, 2010)

External links

Kevin Leininger, "Ex-city pastor new leader of Missouri Synod Lutherans: The Rev. Matthew C. Harrison pastored Zion Lutheran Church." Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (July 14, 2010).

Religious titles
Preceded by
Gerald B. Kieschnick
Thirteenth President
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

2010–
Succeeded by
Current

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