Dr. Douglas L. Rutt
Director-International Ministries
Lutheran Hour Ministries

Dr. Douglas L. Rutt is the director of International Ministries for Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM), a position he has held since July 2010. In this position he oversees the International Ministries division in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the staff of more than 30 ministry centers worldwide. He is also responsible for setting the division's vision and planning; evaluating programming and training; stimulating healthy growth of local support in each country where LHM has an office; maintaining productive working relationships with local board and partner church leadership; and maximizing the number of responses and congregation referrals around the world by directing, coaching, and supervising area counselors to prepare and empower the ministry centers to proclaim the Gospel message appropriately to their local populations.

Until accepting the position with Lutheran Hour Ministries, Dr. Rutt served as Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions and Dean for Distance Learning for Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary for two years (1995-97) before returning in June 2000.

He has previously served as a missionary to Guatemala, Central America, where he was involved in church planting and theological education, and as a parish Pastor at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. James, Minnesota and St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Truman, Minnesota. He was also the Area Secretary for Latin America/Caribbean with LCMS World Mission.

Dr. Rutt has written several articles on mission history and practice and is currently the editor of the Communicator, the regular newsletter of the Lutheran Society for Missiology. He is called upon regularly to consult and speak on mission issues throughout the United States and Latin America. Currently he is the Chairman of the Board for Lutheran Bible Translators and Chairman of the Seminary Relations Committee of the International Lutheran Council.

He is a graduate of Bethany Lutheran College (A.A), Minnesota State University (B.S.), and Concordia Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.). Dr. Rutt's wife, Deborah, is Vice President for Advancement of LCMS National Housing Support Corporation, and is the founding president of A&D Global Business Relations. He and Mrs. Rutt have five children and six grandsons.

Lutheran Hour Ministries is a Christian outreach ministry supporting churches worldwide in its mission of Bringing Christ to the Nations—and the Nations to the Church. LHM produces Christian radio and TV programming for broadcast, as well as Internet and print communications, dramas, music, and outreach materials, to reach the unchurched in more than 30 countries. LHM’s flagship program, The Lutheran Hour^®, is the world’s longest-running Christian outreach radio program. It airs weekly on more than 1,350 stations.

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Chad Fix
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