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DP Rev. Peter Lange Elected First Vice-President of the LCMS

LTS Admin — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:38:05 +0000

The LCMS is capably represented on the Board of Directors of the LTS by Kansas District President Rev. Peter K. Lange. On Sunday, 21 July 2019, Rev. Lange was elected first vice-president of the LCMS at the 67th Regular Convention of the LCMS in Tampa, Florida. He will serve in this capacity in the stead of Rev. Dr. Herbert C. Mueller Jr., who is retiring after having served three terms. As first vice-president, Rev. Lange will relocate to St. Louis and serve under and together with Synod President Rev. Matthew Harrison and his team.

We pray the Lord’s rich blessings upon Rev. Lange and look forward to working closely with him in his new capacity.

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LTS BOD holds Strategy Meeting

LTS Admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:57:43 +0000

While a delegation from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (FELSISA) and LTS students worked together to renovate and refurbish the LTS guest rooms, the Board of Directors convened a strategy meeting with the LTS permanent faculty to discuss the way forward for the seminary. Now that a workable disciplinary code has been adopted, the seminary’s finances are audited and full transparency has been achieved, the LTS has set its sights on full academic accreditation by the relevant national regulatory bodies. After recent meetings with its global partners, confessional Lutheran churches active in Africa and around the world, the LTS is carefully considering its role in terms of Lutheran education in Africa. In order to concentrate on its core tasks, the LTS will need to define in the coming year what the admissions requirements for prospective students will be, what the curriculum will look like, which regions and churches it will cater to, and how the LTS will be structured.

Pictured above from left to right: Mr. Bogart Shole (LCSA), Dr. Karl Böhmer (FELSISA/MLC), Dr. Manfred Johannes (FELSISA), Dr. Gunther Rencken (Chairman, MLC), Mr. Hugo Meyer (FELSISA), Mr. Mophalane Ntshoe (LCSA), Rector Dr. C. Walter Winterle (MLC), Rev. Mbongeni Nkambule (LCSA)

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KS District President Rev. Peter Lange Appointed as LCMS Representative to LTS BOD

LTS Admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:43:00 +0000

Headshot portrait of Rev. Peter K. Lange, Kansas District president Photograph by Harold Rau/Rau Imaging, Inc.

At the direction of LCMS President Matthew Harrison, Rev. Peter Lange, District President of the Kansas District of the LCMS, has been asked to represent the LCMS in the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Lutheran Seminary in Tshwane (LTS). At recent meetings in the USA, the LTS in the persons of Rector C. Walter Winterle and Bishop Modise Maragelo of the LCSA had requested an LCMS representative to be appointed to the LTS BOD. The envisioned purpose of this appointment was to facilitate greater transparency and closer cooperation with the LCMS and other partner churches of the ILC in Africa.

The LTS is very grateful that President Lange has accepted the appointment and looks forward to working together closely with him and by extension with the LCMS leadership as a whole. President Lange’s daughter Kristin is the former director of the Old Latin School in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg in Germany, a joint project of the LCMS, the SELK (our partner church in Germany), and CPH (Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, MO, USA). Kristin is married to Vicar Christian Straeuli of the FELSISA. They currently reside in Wittenberg, South Africa, where Christian is serving his vicarage at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Wittenberg, one of the oldest congregations of the FELSISA.

President Lange himself has a great interest in the Lutheran Church of South Africa and is looking forward to making a positive contribution to the LTS. His appointment is a very welcome development and comes at a time when the LTS looks to work more closely together with the ILC churches in Africa, so as to adopt a more cohesive and geostrategically sound approach to serving the church in Africa. President Lange will also be instrumental in this regard in liaising with the LCMS Office of International Mission and its representatives in West and East Africa respectively. May the Lord of the Church bless this cooperation and the work accomplished together in His kingdom.

During the recent BOD meeting held on Wednesday, 7. November, Rev. Lange and BOD members and guests introduced themselves to each other via FaceTime.

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Members and BOD meet with LCMS guests at LTS

LTS Admin — Wed, 23 May 2018 14:40:58 +0000

On May 22, 2018, a joint meeting was held between members of the Board of Directors and the Members’ Meeting (Board of trustees or shareholders), along with guests Rev. Shauen Trump, LCMS Area Director for East Africa and his colleague Mr. John Wolf and members of the LTS faculty. The purpose of the meeting was to take stock of the current situation and prayerfully to set the course for the future in dialogue with our coworkers in the field. We at LTS heartily welcome good cooperation with our ILC partners in Africa and look forward to following the call of our Lord together in confessional solidarity. May the Lord of the church and of the harvest continue to strengthen and bless our efforts.

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