Upcoming RUSH event

This Friday, CLS hosts the annual RUSH event, from 7pm to 10pm ...it's an event intended for youth, and everyone 12 years and older is invited to join us! This year's theme is on Prayer, and as usual we will have lots of fun, fellowship (meet people and make new friends), games, worship, and a competition for the legendary Road-kill Cup!

Seminarians Take Wing

A weekend of practical experience in Western Canadian churches is offered each year to second-year seminarians and sponsored by the CLS Guild. Since it began, Take Wing has landed in 48 Lutheran Church–Canada congregations, from Thunder Bay, Ont., to Vancouver Island and offers students practical experience, assistance for pastors and congregations, and a look at how ministers are made.

On the weekend of February 5th to 7th, five seminarians will visit congregations in Drumheller, Winkler (Manitoba), Calgary, Vancouver,Campbell River, and Victoria.

The seminary's director of development, Daniel Deyell says, “The student returns better prepared for the ministry. His experience boosts confidence for future ministry. Congregants experience firsthand the formation of their pastors. Pastors in the host congregations are helped in their duties for one Sunday and get to mentor ministers-in-the-making. The seminary gets flesh-and-blood exposure in churches...Take Wing is a worthwhile pursuit for everyone involved.”

Congregations participating in the program are expected to make students feel welcome, greeting them at the airport Friday night and dropping them off Sunday. They are also expected to help students with local transportation and room and board for two nights and the chance to serve.

Guild sponsorship includes cost of travel and a modest stipend for the students.

Congregations are also encouraged to contact the seminary to invite students for future Take Wing experiences.

For more information contact Daniel Deyell at the seminary at 780-474-1468 extension 230.

The Blessings of Endowments

A number of renewed and new endowments were recently added to CLS's revenues, especially for student financial aid and operations. Even though last year’s financial markets adversely impacted the Seminary’s finances, we have seen some recovery. And now, the capital base of endowments is bolstered by six new  funds set up as memorials to church workers and their family members. A number of other endowments received cash additions to increase their earning power, too.
Among those endowments changed, earnings from the Dr. Eugene and Mrs. Sandra Lechelt Endowment now support faculty needs, the Gabert Family Endowment now also supports student financial aid and the Hermann & Helene Neudecker Endowment has been broadened in scope. Recently added funds include the Samuel Gabert Endowment, Fifth Faculty Endowment, David & Ione Gitzel Endowment, Rev. Dr. Elroy Treit Endowment, Chris & Esther Gabert Endowment, and Jack & Linda Mackellar Endowment.

For more information, check the seminary’s Endowment Funds page

Live online course for Laity

This winter, CLS offers an online non-credit extension course using a video conference distance delivery format for the first time.
What does this mean? Pres. Manfred Zeuch will be offering a Quest course over four Tuesdays in January and February covering the topic of Christian Ethics for Daily Life. We will bring participants to the class from across the country through the use of video conferencing technology. If you have access to a computer with a browser and high speed internet, you can take part in this course! As a participant, you will log in to the website to see and hear the live lecture each Tuesday, and you will be able to ask questions by typing into an online chat (much like Messenger or Skype). More technical information can be found here. This first trial for online extension courses has a nominal registration fee of $25 per person.
Time & Date: 7:30pm - 9:30 January 26, February 2, 9, 16.
To register for the classes contact Sandra Esperanza at development@concordiasem.ab.ca or 780-474-1468, ext. 229

Seminarians to travel to Thailand and Cambodia

If you heard about a seminary course on parish immersion you would likely visualize seminary students working with a local pastor and congregation; but a different look at parish life is in store for 2nd year seminarians. For the first time, CLS is taking a group of five seminary students to Southeast Asia to see how parishes operate in a very different environment. From December 31st to January 21st, Dr. Edward Kettner, who is travelling to Thailand and Cambodia to teach seminary courses, will accompany the students, Stephen Bartlett, Michael Montague, James Prophet, Darren Dressler and Timothy Schneider as they encounter a new culture. The trip is funded from the seminary’s Missionary Study Centre grant provided by the Marvin M. Schwan Foundation.
Although this is the first time the seminary has taught the parish immersion course overseas, several years ago two students accompanied Dr. Norman Threinen to Ukraine.
“This approach reflects the practical focus of our curriculum,” explained Dr. Kettner, who also serves as academic dean. “From my own experience, I know this experience will play an important role in the pastoral formation of these students.”
“It’s important that LCC’s seminary students have the opportunity to experience a mission field,” noted Dr. Kettner. “Some of them may discover a new area of ministry to which the Lord may be calling them.”
Please pray for a valuable learning and growing experience for these students and professor, and for their safe return as they travel overseas.

German Christmas Service / Deutscher Weihnachtsgottesdienst

CLS presents a German Advent and Christmas service with traditional hymn and carol singing in the German language on Sunday, December 20th, 2009, from 4:00 – 5:30 P.M. in the seminary chapel.

The service will include German readings from the Scriptures, German Christmas Carols, and a message preached in German by seminary president, Dr. Manfred Zeuch.  Whether or not you speak and understand the German language, all are invited to attend and join this celebration of our Lord’s birth.

For more information check the web site at www.learngrowserve.ca or call the Seminary at 780-474-1468. For details, contact Daniel Deyell or Sandra Esperanza (development@concordiasem.ab.ca)

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CLS laedt ein zum deutschen Advents- und Weihnachtsgottesdient am Sonntag den 20. Dezember in der Kapelle des Concordia Lutheran Seminary, von 16 Uhr bis hoechstens 17 Uhr 30. 
 
Der Gottesdienst wird sein in deutscher Sprache, mit Lesungen and alt bekannten Weihnachtsliedern, gespielt und gesungen. Die Weihnachtsansprache wird halten Seminar Praeses Dr. Manfred Zeuch. Kommen Sie auch und feiern Sie mit uns des Herrn und Heilandes Geburt! 
 
Weitere Informationen erreichen Sie durch www.learngrowserve.ca oder rufen Sie bitte hier an: 780-474-1468. Bester Kontakt ist Daniel Deyell oder Sandra Esperanza (development@concordiasem.ab.ca)

Upcoming Event: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

On Tues. Dec. 8, from 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. at Grace Lutheran Church, 9907-114 Street, Edmonton, CLS presents The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. 
The Festival conveys God’s revelation from the telling of the fall into sin to the account of our Lord’s birth, a message of hope, love and grace through Scripture Readings and Carol Singing. The main theme is the development of the loving purposes of God, as seen through the windows and words of the Bible. Those who attend will join the congregation in singing popular carols from around the world. While the music changes, in Cambridge the lessons and prayers have remained virtually unchanged and it has been presented since 1918 when it originated in Cambridge.
For more information check the web site at www.learngrowserve.ca or call the Seminary at 780-474-1468. For details, contact Daniel Deyell or Sandra Esperanza (development@concordiasem.ab.ca)
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