Encouraging MLC Grads in Grenada

Professor Emeritus Thomas Hunter DMLC ’75 visited Grenada for a month late this summer to serve God’s people there and re-engage with MLC alumni teaching at Grace Lutheran School. He assisted with worship, led congregational and faculty Bible studies, and presented topics on “Effective Interpersonal Communication in an Intercultural Setting” over four days of professional development for the church and school faculty and staff.

Grace serves about 120 students, pre-K to grade 6, from 13 different countries.

Recently retired from his position as MLC’s director of International Services, Hunter continues to support and celebrate MLC’s global outreach. The three teachers at Grace pictured with him, he explains, exemplify the diverse backgrounds of a growing number of MLC graduates.

From left: Evodia Cassius-Noel MLC ’16 came from Trinity-St. Lucia, was assigned back there, and then was called by Grace-Grenada. Hunter installed her in her new call at a Sunday service in August. Elizabeth Bartz MLC ’20 was born in the United States, but lived many years in Africa and is now teaching in Grenada. And Tassia-Channel Wolf MLC ’18 was born in St. Lucia, lived and worked in France, served as a private tutor for a British family while they sailed home from St. Lucia, and then came to MLC as a second-career student. She now serves as assistant principal at Grace.

“Not only is the WELS a small world,” Hunter says, “but it is truly intercultural!” The picture shows a story becoming more common: servants from different backgrounds, following different paths, united in ministry in ways they had not planned.