Rev. Ted Hartman receives CNH Servus Christi award

Theodore (Ted) Hartman was born January 28, 1946, in Fargo, North Dakota. He attended Valparaiso University, Valparaiso IN, receiving his BA in 1968; and he received his MDiv from Concordia Seminary, Springfield, IL, in 1975.

His first call was to First Lutheran in Temple City, CA, 1975-1985. The rest of his ministry was in the CNH District, serving at St. John’s, Bakersfield, CA, 1985-1995; Our Savior, Livermore, CA, 1995 – 2005; and Mission Counselor for the CNH District, 2005 - 2018. As an emeritus pastor, he has done vacancy preaching at congregations throughout the District.

He has served the District in the following capacities: Leadership Development – GEM Module; Circuit Counselor; Regional Vice President.

Most importantly, he married Martha (Marty) Selle in 1967. She and Ted have been in leadership roles with Lutheran Marriage Encounter since 1981. They are blessed with four daughters: Christine, Katy, Andrea, and Leah, and 11 grandchildren.

The CNH Servus Christi award was established in 2023 by CNH District President Mike Lange.

The CNH Servus Christi award is given each year at the Fall Pastors' Conference to at least one deserving candidate who is affirmed by his peers and the president of the CNH District as an exemplary model of servant

leadership.

Qualifications

The candidate is an emeritus pastor who exemplifies Christian servanthood in three areas.

- Faithful and sacrificial service as a pastoral leader and shepherd in his congregation(s)

- Exemplifies a heart to lead others to follow Christ in his mission

- Steadfast and loving attention to his family and by extension to his community in which

he resides, (has resided).

- Intentional and sacrificial service to the greater LCMS and/or Christian church at large.

Philippians 2:3-8.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

Colossians 3:23-24

23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Mark 10:42-45

And Jesus called them tohim and said to them, “You know that those who are

considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be

your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man camenot to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”