TCNвЂ™s transformation process вЂ“ which is based on Biblical principles and was developed through worldwide research on effective mission movements and pilot projects вЂ“ has successfully changed hundreds of churches from the inside out. In January 2009, Terry became the Executive Director of Transforming Churches Network (TCN), which helps churches become more effective in reaching their communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He then served for 13 years as Mission Executive of the Mid-South District of the Lutheran Church вЂ“ Missouri Synod (LCMS). Pless, edited by Jacob Corzine and Bryan Wolfmueller.Terry Tieman began his career in ministry as a pastor in Michigan and Arkansas. In 2013, his former students recognized his 60th birthday with a festschrift, Theology is Eminently Practical: Essays in Honor of John T. He served two terms as president of the English-language section of the International Wilhelm Loehe Society. He is currently chairman of the SynodвЂ™s Commission on Doctrinal Review and he represents the Synod in official dialogues with the North American Lutheran Church.

Over the years he has served on several LCMS boards, committees and task forces.

He was on the Agenda Committee for the Lutheran Service Book and he served as one of the primary drafters for the SynodвЂ™s revision of Martin LutherвЂ™s Catechism with Explanation (2017). Most recently, he contributed fourteen entries to the new Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions, edited by Timothy Wengert (Baker Academic, 2017), and four essays in The Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark Lamport (Rown & Littefield 2017). Several of these books have been translated into German, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Portuguese and Chinese. Professor Pless is the author or editor of twelve books, as well as many articles and chapters in theological journals and books. He is a member of the board of editorial advisers for Lutheran Quarterly. He was a founding editor of Logia: A Lutheran Journal of Theology in 1992 and continued as a book review editor for that journal until 2017. He is also the Luther Academy Fellow for Madagascar. He frequently lectures at seminaries and pastoral conferences in Madagascar, the Philippines, India, Japan, Sweden, Norway and Indonesia.

In addition to his work at Fort Wayne, Professor Pless has served as a visiting professor of practical theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. He was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) by Concordia University вЂ“ Chicago in 2018. He served as campus pastor at University Lutheran Chapel in Minneapolis from 1983-2000 when he was called to the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne where he still serves as assistant professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions and the director of Field Education. From 1979-1983 he was on the pastoral staff at the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University. He entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod by colloquy in 1983. He is a graduate of Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, Texas (B.A in Theology and Philosophy) and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio (Master of Divinity). Pless was born in Hickory, North Carolina, to John A.

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