Tuesday, the 2nd February 2010, LTS started the academic program for the tenth time in Arcadia, Pretoria. A decade in South Africa's capital has brought a lot of changes to the LCSA's way of training its future pastors. Perhaps the most obvious is that we now have students from Botswana, Liberia, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria and even Zambia enrolled at this institution and that has moved the entire program to a higher level, because these students play a significant role in teaching themselves.
However a number of foreign and local teachers accompany this process of learning and education. On Tuesday two new-comers were installed at the Seminary by the rector assisted by our honorable Bishop David Tswaedi DD and our colleague Rev. Nathan Musawenkosi Mntambo. The additions to the Seminary staff are Rev. Glenn Fluegge from LCMS World Missions [previously working in Togo, W.Africa] and Rev. Joe Burnham from the LCMS Rocky Mountain District. While the latter is expected to serve for a couple of months only, the prior is keen to stay for a few years - if not longer.
While Rev. Mntambo lead the liturgy, Bishop Tswaedi preached on the day's prescribed text from Philippians 1, 27-30:
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. 29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, 30 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. (ESV)
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