About the DOXOLOGY Collegium
Recognizing the ongoing need to expand our teaching faculty and develop future leadership for our program, in 2013 the DOXOLOGY Board of Directors authorized the formation of a Collegium of DOXOLOGY graduates to serve the program in an advisory capacity through research, theological/pastoral reflection, and counsel. The seven initial Fellows in the Collegium were formally inducted at the Grand Reunion in San Antonio, TX on August 2, 2014. The eighth Fellow, Rev. Brady Finnern, was inducted at the 2017 Grand Reunion. The ninth Fellow, Rev. Dr. Harold Senkbeil, was installed at the Collegium Retreat in January 2022. The tenth and eleventh Fellows, Rev. Dustin Beck and Rev. Jason Schockman, were installed at the 2024 Grand Reunion. Each of the Fellows is invited to prepare a major research paper in applied pastoral care for publication in the SEELSORGER Journal. (Access the current library of their work via the link below) The Collegium convenes each year for mutual learning and collegial conversation regarding the faithful practice of the cure of souls in the 21st Century.
Current Fellows
The Rev. Mark David Barz is the second son of Marvin and Marilyn Barz. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 21, 1955. Raised as the son of a Lutheran pastor, he enjoyed life in a family of three brothers and three sisters. Mark was educated at Concordia College, Ann Arbor and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (M.Div., 1982). His first Call into the ministry was at Bethlehem Ev. Lutheran Church in Saginaw, Michigan, then he accepted a Call to Crown of Life Ev. Lutheran Church, San Antonio, Texas where he served from 1987 to 2025. Since August 2025 he serves as Campus Chaplain at Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Mark is married to Connie Marie [nee Lehenbauer] and they have been blessed with four children, three great sons-in-law, a favorite daughter-in-law and a fifteen precious grandchildren. He enrolled in DOXOLOGY in June 2011 and has served as chaplain/pastor in residence for training cycles since.
Mark has served District and Synod as a member and chair of the Texas District Continuing Education Task Force (1988-2001); part of the local planning team for River of Light (1995); Synod Convention Delegate (1995, 2010); Community Life Builder for Called To Be (1998) and Higher Ground (2001); Doctrinal Reviewer for Concordia Publishing House (2002-2009); PALS Facilitator (2005-2015); volunteer for Live Love(d) (2013) and an occasional writer for The Lutheran Witness, LCMS Youth Ministry Resources, Lutherans For Life, and Concordia Pulpit Resources. He was elected a Vice President of the Texas District in June 2012 and served until 2021. Mark was the varsity soccer coach at Lutheran High School– San Antonio from 1995 to 2009.
His personal interests are, above all, his family and friends. He also enjoys athletics (especially golf, soccer, and bicycling), reading (especially World War II history), music (from Bach to bluegrass), and collecting antiques (depression glass, wooden coat hangers, and soda bottles are three of his favorites).
The Rev. Dustin Beck has served the saints at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda, Texas since 2019. He is a graduate of Concordia University in Austin (BA, studying Psychology, Biblical Languages, Pre-Seminary Studies, 2007) and of Concordia Seminary (M.Div., 2011).
In his first call to Trinity Lutheran Church (2011-2019), he assisted in pastoral care and operating a relief workers’ volunteer camp in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Faith Lutheran High School in Central Texas, teaching underclassmen religion as the school enters its eighth year; in 2022-2023, he served on a part-time basis at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Bastrop, Texas, a church planted by four local congregations; and he currently serves as the Texas District LWML Sr. Pastoral Counselor.
Pastor Beck married Chelsea in 2009. She is a teacher at Faith Lutheran High School and formerly served as the Executive Director of the Wendish Heritage Museum in Serbin, Texas. The Becks have been blessed with three sons. In his free time, he enjoys running, hunting and fishing, camping, disc golf, playing guitar, was recently tricked into playing golf, and is a leader with his sons’ Trail Life USA Scouting group.
The Rev. Brady L. Finnern was born and raised in Wadena, Minnesota. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, graduating in 2002 with a degree in Exercise Science. He graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri in 2006. Brady’s first call was to St. John Lutheran Church, North Prairie, Wisconsin and he served at Messiah Lutheran Church, Sartell, Minnesota from 2010 until 2022 when he was elected as District President for the Minnesota North District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. He has been a circuit visitor in the Minnesota North District, LWML zone counselor, and Vice President of the District. He serves on the Lutheran Church Extension Fund Board of Directors as the LCMS President’s Representative.
Brady and his wife, Amy, have been married since 2003 and are blessed with four children.
The Rev. David C. Fleming has served as pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1993. He remains an Associate Pastor at Our Savior LCMS. Previously he served in Warrenville, Illinois a Chicago suburb. He is a 1986 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary. He co-wrote God’s Love at Christmas, the 2010 CPH Advent-Christmas resource.
He and his wife Jo Marie nee Wunderlich have three grown children who are married to delightful spouses and have been gifted with grandchildren. He has served on the Concordia University, Wisconsin/Ann Arbor Board of Regents since 2016. Since going through DOXOLOGY’s Classic Program in 2012, he was Chaplain/Pastor in Residence for DOXOLOGY at several events. In 2017 he was called as DOXOLOGY’s Associate Executive Director for Spiritual Care in 2017. In 2020 he was installed as Executive Director for Spiritual Care.
The Rev. Timothy J. Pauls was ordained in 1993 at Valley of Peace Lutheran Church in Hailey, Idaho; and accepted a call in 1998 to his current parish, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Boise. He has served in various capacities as school administrator, camp board director, and member of the editorial staff of Higher Things magazine. One who enjoys writing, he is the author of Going Out, Getting Dumped and Playing Mini-Golf on the First Date; You Ask about…Life; You Ask about…Relationships; and You Ask about…Faith. He is also a contributor to Lutheranism 101 and Formation: Essays for Future Pastors, Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Hymns; co-editor of Take Courage: Essays in Honor of Harold Senkbeil; as well as several synod Bible studies and assorted articles in Higher Things, Logia, Teachers Interaction and other publications. Timothy holds a B.A. in Pre-Theology from Concordia College, Portland (1989) and an M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis (1993). He and his wife Teresa have two sons, Nathan and Noah, daughters-in-law Rebekah and Cambria, and three grandchildren, Penelope, Eden, and Hector.
The Rev. Jason A Schockman has served the people of God in three congregations of the South Wisconsin District. He is a graduate of Concordia University River Forest (BA Theology, 2001) and of Concordia Seminary (M.Div., 2007), his D.Min in Pastoral Care and Leadership is still in progress through Concordia Theological Seminary.
In his first call to St. Paul’s Janesville, Wisconsin (2007-2010), he assisted in pastoral care and focused on Worship and Evangelism, reestablishing an adult choir, and beginning a partnership with a local public elementary school to provide meals and school supplies for students in need. He then served Prince of Peace in West Salem, Wisconsin (2010-2021). In that time, He served as Circuit Visitor and Vacancy Pastor at Faith Lutheran Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
He currently serves as Associate Pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, School, and ECC in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, coordinating community outreach and discipleship.
Pastor Schockman married Colette in 2000. She is a Lutheran Educator and currently serves as the resource room teacher at St. Paul’s. The Schockmans have been blessed with three children (two daughters, one son). In his free time, he enjoys (in alphabetical order); board games, building golf clubs, dad jokes, home improvement projects, golf (yes, you can enjoy it even if you’re not good at it), grilling, singing, and watching movies (usually with theological lenses firmly in place).
The Rev. Dr. Harold Senkbeil served in parish ministry for 31 years in various small town/rural, campus, suburban, central city and mission planting settings before moving to academia.
He was Associate Professor in the Pastoral Ministry and Missions Department of Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, IN from 2002 – 2008. In July, 2008, he accepted the call to serve DOXOLOGY, a Recognized Service Organization of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, as Executive Director for Spiritual Care. Senkbeil served as an elected member of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations of the LCMS (1998-2002) and an elected member of the Board of Regents of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (2010-2018). In 2001 that institution awarded him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa. He is the author of a number of books, including Sanctification: Christ in Action (NPH, 1989) and Dying to Live: the power of forgiveness (CPH, 1994), plus contributions to many other books and professional theological and pastoral journals. His friends and colleagues celebrated the 45th anniversary of his ordination into the office of the holy ministry with a festschrift entitled Take Courage (New Reformation Publications, 2016). His book on pastoral work, The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor’s Heart, was published by Lexham Press in 2019, together with a companion volume,Pastoral Leadership for the care of souls, co-authored with DOX Collegium Fellow Dr. Lucas Woodford. In 2020 Lexham published his Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley, and The Lord’s Prayer for All God’s Children in 2022 (a FatCat Book).
He and his late wife, Jane, are the parents of three children and four grandchildren, all of whom live near Waukesha, Wisconsin. He became DOXOLOGY’s Executive Director Emeritus in 2020.
The Rev. C. Bryan Wolfmueller is pastor of St. Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, Texas. He is the author of Take They Our Life: Martin Luther’s Theology of Martyrdom (2019), A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World (CPH, 2019), Has American Christianity Failed? (CPH, 2016) and Final Victory: Contemplating the Death and Funeral of a Christian (CPH, 2010). He is host of What-Not, The Podcast, the co-host of Table Talk Radio podcast, posts videos on YouTube at wolfmueller1, and has a number of other theological projects that all end up on his blog, www.wolfmueller.co. Bryan and his wife Keri live with their four children in Round Rock, Texas.
The Rev. Dr. Lucas V. Woodford, MDiv, STM, DMin is President of the Minnesota South District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and the Associate Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Farmington, Minnesota.
Pastor Woodford is the author of Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? (Wipf & Stock, 2012). He is co-author with Harold Senkbeil of Pastoral Leadership: for the Care of Souls (2nd ed Lexham Press, 2021) and their book on contextual mission, Culture of the Word (Lexham Press, 2022). He has written numerous articles published in The Lutheran Witness, Logia, and Seelsorger.
Woodford is a member of the Board of Regents of Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota. He has served as an adjunct instructor for Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Institute of Lutheran Theology in Brookings, South Dakota.
Dr. Woodford is a Fellow in the Collegium of DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel, charged with research, writing and speaking regarding the care of souls in the contemporary context. He is a frequently invited presenter on matters related to soul care, missiology, marriage, sex and gender issues, and critical race theory. He is a husband to Becca and father to their seven children (five girls and two boys).