Luther Classical College (LCC) has invited the Concordia University System (CUS) to send an informal visitation team to meet with regents, administrators, professors, and students during its historic first fall semester. The invitation is part of LCC’s ongoing effort to explore potential pathways toward formalizing the college’s relation to the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Among other options, LCC also has explored Recognized Service Organization (RSO) status with the LCMS.

CUS is currently comprised of five LCMS universities on six campuses. Amendments to the LCMS Bylaws adopted by the 2023 Convention provide possible pathways for an outside institution to become consolidated as a college within an existing CUS member or to become a new institution of CUS. As LCC considers all of its options, the college has invited an informal visitation team from CUS to observe chapel worship and classroom instruction with a distinctive curriculum in classical Lutheran education in the fall of 2025.

LCC was founded in 2020 by a board of regents under the sponsorship of Mount Hope Lutheran Church of Casper, Wyoming. Mount Hope belongs to the Wyoming District of the LCMS. LCC’s regents are selected from members in good standing of LCMS congregations. The District President of the Wyoming District, with the assistance of members of the Board of Directors of the Wyoming District, will conduct an annual visitation at LCC to ensure doctrinal integrity and to guide and encourage the LCC president in exercising spiritual oversight over the affairs of the college. LCC receives financial support from over 200 LCMS congregations nationwide, plus over 1,300 individual donors.