On Nov. 29, the Michigan Lutheran Seminary (MLS) Governing Board called Rev. Aaron Frey to be the school's next president. Frey currently serves as pastor at Emanuel, Tawas City, Mich.

The position of MLS president has been vacant since the end of last school year, when Rev. Paul Prange accepted a call to be the administrator of WELS Ministerial Education. Prange says, "Aaron is a faithful Lutheran pastor, and the MLS Governing Board would like him to consider using his pastoral gifts to lead the school into its second century as a WELS prep school."

Frey says he was stunned into silence when he received the call. As a 1989 graduate of MLS, he says, "I thank God regularly for my years at MLS."

What are Frey's thoughts as he deliberates on this call? "To be honest, I feel torn into two pieces," he says. "There will be a lot of studying, a lot of prayers, a lot of phone calls. It will be a very difficult choice, but the Lord will prove faithful, both to my family and to the souls in these two beautiful places."