Kurt Senske elected to LCMS national board

Houston, TX - Kurt Senske, chief executive officer of Lutheran Social Services of the South, was elected to a six-year term on The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's national board at the LCMS national convention.

The LCMS Board of Directors serves the church as the legal representative of the Synod and is the custodian of all of the property of the Synod. The board also manages and supervises of all business affairs of the Synod.

"It is an honor to have been elected by delegates of the LCMS convention," said Senske. "My prayer is to draw upon my leadership experience and God-given talents to help create a healthy, Christ-like, church-wide environment that will allow us to fulfill the vision to reach 100 million people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Senske has been with LSS since 1994 and was named CEO in 1997. He is responsible for leading the agency through an exhaustive strategic planning process that has refocused resources and spurred phenomenal growth. LSS has an annual operating budget of about $100 million and serves more than 35,000 people annually throughout Texas, Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Senske earned a law degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas.

The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod has 6,150 congregations served by more than 9,000 professional church workers throughout North America.

LSS is the social service arm of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. LSS affiliated ministries serve more than 35,000 people in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries include therapeutic foster care, children's residential treatment centers, adoption, disaster response, emergency assistance, senior health care, retirement communities and adult day care.