March 17, 2025: Bishop’s Convocation

2025 Convocation Registration Form
2025 Bishop’s Convocation
Bridging Faith & Technology: AI in Ministry
March 17, 2025
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Upper Arlington)

10 AM – 3 PM

 

This event is open to Rostered Ministers (including Retired and On Leave from Call), Interns, Synod Authorized Ministers (SAMs), Seminarians, Church Staff, and Lay Congregation Members.

Click here to register!

 


Our Presenters:

GSW Headshot Feb 2025Geoff Wilhelm has worked in the IT industry for nearly 30 years, leading technology-enabled business transformations, with the last decade focused on AI product and strategy development. He believes that responsible AI use can create real benefits for humanity and has the potential to level the playing field in developing regions of the world.

Currently, he serves as the Practice Director of Digital Transformation at Impower.ai. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Industrial Psychology from The Ohio State University. A lifelong Lutheran, he is delighted about the opportunity helping church leaders explore and embrace cutting-edge technology for personal benefit and ministry impact.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, their 13-year-old daughter, and two bernedoodles.

 

 

Headshot 2025Rev. Dr. Laurie Jungling was elected to serve as the bishop of the Montana Synod in 2019. Before her election, she served as an intentional interim pastor in four congregations across the synod. From 2008-2016, she was professor of religion and ethics at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, S.D., and served as a pastor of a 3-point congregation out of Buffalo (S.D.) Lutheran Parish as her first call.

Bishop Jungling earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Montana State University in Bozeman in 1989, a Master of Divinity degree in 1996 and a Master of Theology degree in 2001 from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Bishop Jungling earned a doctoral degree from Graduate Theological Union at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University in Berkeley, Calif., in 2007.