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Alumnus named executive director of Lutheran Volunteer Corps

By David Gonnerman '90
January 25, 2005

The Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) Board of Directors recently announced that it has named Michael Wilker '86 executive director of the organization. "Mike has a vision and the skills that will move LVC closer to being a more inclusive and effective community of faith that unites people to work for peace with justice," says the Rev. Doris Warrell, president of the board of directors. Wilker, currently pastor of Christ Lutheran Church~Iglesia Luterana de Cristo in Freeport, N.Y., will assume his new post March 1.

"A wise person once said that we always have a choice between security and adventure," says Wilker, who first served as a volunteer in Chicago before becoming an LVC staff member in the 1980s. "LVC has been inviting people to the faithful adventure of justice, community and simplicity for 25 years, during which Lutheran Volunteers have touched the lives of thousands with compassion and grace."

Wilker is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1995. He is married to Judy Kittleson, also a former Lutheran Volunteer, who teaches English as a second language. They have two children, Maija and Karl.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.