New students at the Seminary

This year we have another row of firsts at the Seminary:
1. The first students to arrive from Ethiopia: Mr. Ashanafi and Mr. Daniel F. Esto
2. The first student to arrive from Zambia: Mr. Benjamin Kaumba.
3. The first students from FELSiSA: Christian Straeuli and my son Christoph Weber.
4. The first lady from Temba: Nogukhanya Shabalala
5. Although Mr. Eboro Madara is also from Nigeria, we have now the first student from there starting from the beginners course and not just topping up his studies. This is Mr. Simon Ishaya from Nigeria.
6. A Zulu student from Mpumalanga diocese of the Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is Thulani Hadebe.
7. We are expecting further students to start their studies with us from Liberia and Uganda. The Liberians are to arrive next week.

Here some of the beginners are seen together with Rev. Joe Burnham in the Symbolics class: Introduction to the Augsburg Confession.