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Roy Askins

Interim Executive Director, LCMS Communications/Managing Director, Editorial & Theological Content Communications

About

The Rev. Roy S. Askins oversees the three publications of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod: The Lutheran Witness, Reporter and Lutherans Engage the World. After being born in Plano, Texas, and baptized into the Christian faith, he attended parochial school at Faith Lutheran Church and was homeschooled in high school. At Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW), he studied pastoral ministry and then attended Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (CTSFW). Also, while at CUW, he met and later married his wife, Eliza. Askins served for four years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Livingston, Texas, before taking a call to the LCMS Office of International Mission, Asia region, as director of communications. In 2020, he returned with his family to the United States to be the managing editor of The Lutheran Witness.

In addition to completing his Master of Divinity from CTSFW, Askins has earned a certificate in copyediting from the University of Chicago; a Master of Sacred Theology from CTSFW; and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho.