Prospective Students

Lutheran Theological Seminary in Novosibirsk will enroll a new group of students in the fall of 2001. Formation of this class has already started. During the 2000 summer seminars, seminary Rector Rev. Alexei Streltsov compiled a list of prospective students. As of now, there are 14 students on the list. Candidates live in various parts of Russia, as well as in some other countries of the former Soviet Union. Different nationalities will be represented also. The seminary hopes to assist the mission work of the Christian Church by training students from traditionally Muslim or Buddhist areas. (Of course, we are talking about confirmed members of the Lutheran Church).

For the first time the new seminary class will include graduates of the LTS pre-seminary program, the Biblical School in Khakasia. Ideally, such candidates will constitute a majority of prospective students in the future, although now only a few have finished this course of study.

As before, most students will come from Siberia. Most of them will be from the congregations and missions of the West Siberian Christian Mission, but there may also be some from Siberian congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria, as there were some talks about this with ELCI Bishop Aarre Kuukauppi when he visited our seminary in the beginning of October 2001. As always, LTS students are expected to serve in the congregations from which they come, or wherever their church body may send them.

The recruitment process continues. The number of candidates may grow or diminish as the new academic year approaches. The recruitment results we have at this time allow us to hope that a new array of theological students will soon learn to interpret the Bible in the light of the Lutheran Confessions and to care for souls burdened by sin.

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: New congregation comes into being due to the practical work of the students of the Biblical School in Khakassia. [March 2000]

News: Three New Students Accepted at the Seminary in Novosibirsk [February 2000]