Table Scraps: The Specific Ministry Pastor Program of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

At the 2007 convention, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod approved the Specific Ministry Pastor Program (SMP) for the use of training men for specific ministries outside of the traditional residential seminary education. Pastor Brian Kachelmeir of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Los Alomos, NM comes on to talk about SMP: what it is and what it is not.