The Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr., president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind, signs a working agreement with the Rev. Yonas Yigezu, director of Mission and Theology for the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, at the EECMY headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Behind them, from left, are the Rev. Dr. Tilahun Mendedo, president of Concordia College Alabama, Selma, Ala.; the Rev. Dr. Joel Lehenbauer, executive director of the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations; EECMY President Rev. Dr. Wakseyoum Idosa; the Rev. Dr. Albert C. Collver, director of Church Relations and Regional Operations for the LCMS and the Rev. Dr. Berhanu Ofgaa, general secretary of the EECMY. LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford