Pastoral Call differences in LCMS & ELCA

[John Dornheim]

We use the "extended a call" language too.  In the ELCA, do congregations generally call from within their own district synods, or do they call from the wider church?  Can a sem/university prof who is ordained be called to a parish?
Are calls ever extended to a pastor in the ELCIC, other Lutheran bodies or other full communion partners such as TEC?
Thanks.

In the case of a married couple where both are ordained, have both spouses ever been jointly called?

When I served in the Allegheny Synod, I was friends with a clergy couple who had been called to the same congregation. I do not believe that they were unique.

John Dornheim

[Charles_Austin]

There are numerous situations throughout the ELCA where pastoral spouses, both ordained, hold a call to the same congregation.

[edoughty]

There are numerous situations throughout the ELCA where pastoral spouses, both ordained, hold a call to the same congregation.

In the congregation to which my brother and his wife belong, for a time the pastoral leadership was a clergy couple.  It was said that one of them tended to afflict the comfortable, the other tended to comfort the afflicted; so it worked.

Erik Doughty
Minneapolis, MN