Banquet Guest Speaker announced

Rev. David Kind, LCMS pastor at the University Lutheran Chapel at the University of Minnesota, has agreed to be the featured speaker at the banquet for the 2006 Confessional Worldview Seminar to be held at King of Grace Lutheran Church in Golden Valley, Minnesota. His presentation is titled: Confessing Christ on Campus, the confessional Lutheran approach to campus ministry and missions and its impact on students today.

Rev. David A. Kind has been campus pastor at University Lutheran Chapel in Minneapolis since 2001, serving the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. A native of Wisconsin, Kind is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota (class of '92) and was active in ULC's campus ministry as a student. Kind received his MDiv degree from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne Indiana in 1996. He has served as pastor of: First Lutheran Church in Waldorf and St. John's Lutheran Church in Minnesota Lake, Minnesota (1996-1999), and as a recruiter for Concordia Theological Seminary (1999-2001).

While serving at ULC Pastor Kind has been involved in Higher Things (Dare to Be Lutheran!) as a conference chaplain and breakout session speaker; and in Christ On Campus, the campus ministry arm of HT, as a member of Christ On Campus leadership team. He also has served as a regional pastoral advisor for Lutheran Student Fellowship, the LC-MS national student group.

Kind is the author of the book About Our Liturgy: History, Meaning and Practice. His sermons have also been featured in the journal "Concordia Pulpit Resources".