The Mission

Just this past summer, the Board of Regents for Concordia Theological Seminary approved a new mission statement for the seminary. "Concordia Theological Seminary exists to form servants in Jesus Christ who teach the faithful, reach the lost, and care for all." You may have seen it somewhere (look for it). Our new curriculum highlights it, our faculty excels in it, and our students are loving it. Three different kinds of classrooms help with the formation process.

Of course, there are the lectures. Those are the best known classrooms. Our faculty engage in striking discussions and impart some of the most important foundations for ministry. The professors feed off of each other. The new curriculum offers many more opportunities for our professors to team teach. Students make out on that deal.

Then there is Kramer Chapel. The worship life of our community is amazing. Through the gathering of Christ's body daily in the confines of Kramer's large A-frame, the preaching of God's Word and the sacraments shape and build our students. The liturgy stirs up their hearts and fills their lips with God's song.

Learning while resting, it doesn't get any better than that. At Concordia Theological Seminary the community enjoys each other. We gather for meals, for relaxation, and for good Lutheran beverages. All the while, we do it together. Our faculty eat at our lunch tables, and play table tennis in the student commons. Over peas and carrots our faculty strike up conversations begun in class. They know their students and take care of them. Do they need to work some teaching out a little more? Do they need to play some table tennis? What about taking care of family?

In a round about way...through three classroom situations, it all gets done. Three...what a great number.