Pastor Partners Mentoring

This year the Pastor Partners mentoring program is celebrating its 15th anniversary. All of this year's seniors requested a mentor for the beginning of their full-time ministries. The Pastor Partners mentoring program is for three ...

2025 Senior Theses Available

Many hours of study and research have gone into the theses prepared by the WLS class of 2025. The time and effort put into these works is apparent. We encourage everyone to view this year's papers. You ...

Fall Online Courses

To supplement our face-to-face continuing education opportunities, Grow in Grace also offers online courses. Join us online this fall for one of two courses: Biblical Missiology (ME) by Prof. Sam Degner or Developing a Mission Philosophy ...

Pursuing the STM Degree

The STM program and the courses that make up the program are designed for pastors—for their spiritual and professional growth. At some venues, pastors can audit STM classes, but pastors gain more when they complete ...

Four Branches—May 2025

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: Bible Translation, Part 1—What Kind of Bible is This?  When the NIV 2011 came out, WELS pastors and members suddenly found themselves wrestling with the question of ...

Feminism Against Progress

Ten Questions to Ask Every Time You Read the Bible

Overview of the Mentoring Program

We are thankful for the faithful efforts of the director (Professor emeritus John Brenner), the mentor leadership team (seven pastors), and all of the pastors (62 pastors) who currently serve as mentors for the pastors ...

Peer Reviewed and Peer Recommended

This month we begin a new feature called Peer Reviewed & Peer Recommended (PR2). Every month our team pokes around the ATLA Database (available to WLS alumni with a MS365 account) and recommends five recent ...

2025 Celebration Success

This past April, Grow in Grace hosted another successful year of Celebration of Ministry retreats. We praise God for the approximately 170 pastors and spouses in attendance at our favorite location, the Drury Plaza Hotel ...