Rev. Dr. Larry Vogel
Assistant to the Executive Director, LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations
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About
The Rev. Dr. Larry M. Vogel has served in the public ministry of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) for 45 years: first as a called worker-priest teacher on the Rosebud Lakota Sioux Reservation; then, after seminary, as a missionary/pastor in Queens (New York City) and as a pastor in Pennsauken, N.J.; and, since 2009, on the staff of the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR). In July 2020, he switched to part-time, deployed status for the CTCR as assistant to the executive director. He assists CTCR committees, represents the Commission in ecumenical meetings, drafts and edits documents, and replies to questions regarding LCMS doctrine and practice.Vogel also writes and speaks on various topics, including catechesis, demographic change, ecclesiology and prayer. He also assists with vacancies in New Jersey. Vogel holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He and his wife, Beth, have three married children and eight grandchildren.