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Summer Practicum.Currently LTS students are involved in their summer practicum. This mostly includes practical work in congregations throughout Siberia. This practicum does not have the "official" character that the internship year, which takes place after three years of study, and which is part of the regular seminary curriculum, has. Still, because of the close integration of church and seminary, such practice is deemed to be crucial for the students' formation. To study theology is not only to study about the church, but first and foremost to live the life of the church where the church needs you. LTS offered this summer practicum to the students as an option. Virtually everybody was eager to do something in the church in the summertime. Such practicum will normally go on for two months, after which the students will have two weeks of vacation before the beginning of the new academic year. Seminarians were assigned to different places, all of which are congregations or missions of West Siberian Christian Mission. There are no super-high expectations from these men, who are still first-year students. It is very important to realize that they will not be allowed to do independent church work in the congregations. They will be placed under the authority of pastors and deacons who are ministers of God in the appropriate congregations. Of course, on the mission field, such as in Chita, slightly different standards will have to be applied, but even there every major step will be correlated with the ecclesiastical leadership in Novosibirsk. All in all, three students were sent to the Republic of Khakassia, two each to Novosibirsk and Chita, and one each to Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, and Irkutsk. We ask the Lord's blessing upon our students, hoping that He will use them and that they will apply correctly what they have learned during the past year at the seminary.
News: Professor Kurt Marquart Gives Lectures in Ekaterinburg. [June 2000] News: Completion of 1999-2000 Academic Year. [June 2000] News: Summer Practicum. [June 2000] News: Seminary Movie. [June 2000] News: LTS Theological Journal. [May 2000] News: Trip to Ulaanbaatar. [May 2000] News: A Missionary and Catechetical Trip to Khakassia, Buryatia, and Irkutsk. [May 2000] News: Student’s Daughter Baptized at the Chapel’s Baptismal Font. [May 2000] News: Students Conduct Fieldwork during Holy Week. [April 2000] News: LTS holds April seminar in new seminary building. [April 2000] News: Dr. Scaer teaches full course in Novosibirsk in one week. [March 2000] News: LTS student participates in international Christian Pedagogical conference. [March 2000] News: Three New Students Accepted at the Seminary in Novosibirsk [February 2000] |
