cerns with the seminarian. “It’s a lot of work,” Ginn said. Ginn said Cross and Crown
couldn’t have afforded to pay an intern—$35,000 with stipend, housing and health insurance in the Charlotte, N.C., region—if she hadn’t been fortunate to learn about a $5,000 grant. Due to the grant and the fact that Warfel could live at home and stay under his wife’s health insurance coverage, the internship cost $12,000. Marohn of St. Peter’s by the Sea was the first pastor in 20 years to bring an intern to the congregation, which had a history of hosting semi- narians primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. She cobbled together three fund- ing sources to pay for it: A one-time memorial specified for education, the salary of the youth director who went to seminary, and the salary of an outreach director who had retired. The internship cost $24,000, primar- ily because Serrano and his family lived with his wife’s parents. In Kenner, La., Ronald Unger, pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, was fortunate to have an assistant in ministry who teaches elementary school decide to become a pastor and return as an intern. Rather than pay “in the
$30,000s,” the church paid $16,000 to enable Sandra Barnes, now serving Peace Lutheran Church in Slidell, La., to do her internship while she continued working as a teacher and serving as a ministry assistant.
Data from the Association of Theological Schools show that ELCA seminaries are admitting more people ages 50 and older and those 30 and younger in the last 10 years, even as the total student body has declined.
Barnes was the first female intern Unger had mentored since
he switched to the ELCA in 1999 from the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. A New Orleans native who lives in Slidell, Barnes had felt a call to ministry as early as her second year in college in 1984. She was so enthralled with an “Introduction to Religion” class at Loyola University– New Orleans, she switched her major to religious studies from music education.
After her pastor urged her to con- sider becoming an associate in min- istry, Barnes started that program in 1998. She realized God was telling her something, so she applied in 2005 to be a seminarian. Barnes was supposed to start seminary in August 2005, but Hurricane Katrina destroyed her house, which left her family living in a FEMA trailer
until April 2006. So she cobbled together January terms and intensive seminars at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chi- cago, and took transferable classes at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. “I tell people I took the scenic route to ordination,” she said, having spent seven years completing stud- ies. She graduated in May 2012— celebrating at the same time son Robert graduated from college—and was ordained in July.
Marohn said she would like to see some new ways of funding interns created. Since ELCA ministers in the San Diego area share great collegial- ity and meet regularly, she said one possibility could be churches pool- ing their funds and sharing or rotat- ing the intern.
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