Bruce Wurdeman
Executive Director
Lutheran Hour Ministries

Bruce Wurdeman serves as the executive director of Lutheran Hour Ministries, a position he has held since August 2009. In this position, Wurdeman functions as the chief administrative and executive staff member of the organization; shapes and implements the ministry's organizational policies; oversees the organization's headquarters and staff; reports to the Board of Governors for the International Lutheran Laymen's League (Int'l LLL); and serves as the staff liaison to The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC), partner churches, and other organizations and groups.

Prior to being named executive director, Wurdeman held the position of LHM's director of United States Ministries for 18 months, where he oversaw the production of The Lutheran Hour® and Woman to Woman® radio programs, seasonal television specials, and print materials. He also managed ministry fulfillment and referral services and, under his direction, the ministry launched the LHM Men's NetWork in January 2009, a program geared to help congregations reconnect with men and build local men's ministries. In only its first six months of operation, more than 2,000 churches from the LCMS and other denominations signed up to participate in the Men's NetWork.

Wurdeman previously worked at Lutheran Hour Ministries from 1994 through 2002 in the Volunteer Opportunities department as an assistant director and manager, positions that allowed him to recruit and train more than 100,000 volunteers throughout North America.

Before returning to Lutheran Hour Ministries in 2008, he served as a mission and ministry facilitator for the Texas District of the LCMS, where he was a resource person for 100 congregations in West and South Texas. Prior to his first stint at Lutheran Hour Ministries, Wurdeman filled a variety of roles throughout Lutheran circles, including principal and director of adult education at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Eureka, Missouri, director of campus ministry for the North Dakota District of the LCMS, director of youth ministry at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, and a math/science teacher and youth director at Zion Lutheran Church in Bethalto, Illinois.

Wurdeman has a bachelor's degree in Education and School Administration from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois, and a master's degree in Exegetical Theology (Old Testament) from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. He is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Ellisville, Missouri. He and his wife, Marijane, have three grown children and one grandchild.

Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) is a Christian outreach ministry supporting churches worldwide in its mission of Bringing Christ to the Nations—and the Nations to the Church. It is also a volunteer movement more than 100,000 people strong. 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 around the globe. LHM's flagship program, The Lutheran Hour, is the world's longest-running Christian outreach radio program. It airs weekly on more than 900 stations.

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Chad Fix
(800) 944-3450, ext. 4193