Thanks to some very generous sponsors and the gracious efforts of the St. Philips Society, we have been able to procure textbooks for most of our classes this semester. Here are some pictures of grateful students in the Catechesis and Church History IV classes with their new books. Thank you to all who contributed! We are most grateful for your help. We are also very glad to have found the Augustine Bookroom right here in Pretoria (Constantia Park), a subsidiary of Good Neighbours Bookshop, and we look forward to a fruitful relationship with them in future as we continue to seek avenues to procure textbooks for our classes. Since almost all of our textbooks come from the USA, it is always a challenge to get them to South Africa at a good price. Having willing book carriers (read: Staff members and visiting instructors flying over) certainly helps a lot! If we could find ways of shipping our books here at a reasonable price, that would help even more (and save our book carriers the hassles of traveling with great big cases and boxes of books). Any suggestions?

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After a refreshing break following the June exams, almost all LTS students have returned from winter recess, ready for a new quarter. Thanks be to God for safe travels. Classes have commenced, and we are off to a good start. This quarter, depending on their level of studies, the students are taking some of the following classes:

• Ministry to the Sick and Dying – with Rev. Nathan Mntambo
• Church Polity and Administration – with Rev. Mbongeni John Nkambule
• Law and Gospel – with Rev. Mbongeni John Nkambule
• Symbolics: Pneumatology (Sanctification and the Means of Grace) – with Rev. Tobias Ahlers
• World Religions and Cults – with Rev. Dr. Karl Böhmer
• Ethics of Sex and Marriage – with Rev. Mbongeni John Nkambule
• Catechesis – with Rector Dr. C. Walter Winterle
• Woman of the Church – with Rector Dr. C. Walter Winterle
• Church History IV (from the Reformation to the Present)  – with Rev. Dr. Karl Böhmer
• Greek 220 – with Ds. Robert van Niekerk
• Hebrew 220 – with Ds. Anthony Pearson
• Academic Skills – with Tutor Thandeka Maseko
• OT Isagogics – with Rev. Mbongeni John Nkambule
• Hebrew Lectio Continua – with Ds. Anthony Pearson
• Greek Lectio Continua – with Ds. Robert van Niekerk

The following intensives are also scheduled:

30. July – 10. August Intensive 3 2018 with Prof. Dr. John Pless (Luther’s Catechisms – the Lord’s Prayer) and Rev. Dr. Tom Aadland (Gospel of John)
31. August – 7. September Intensive 4 with Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Werner Klän (Theology of Concord) and Rev. Dr. Daniel Schmidt (Stewardship and Finances in the Church)
32. – 21. September Deaconess Intensive with Dcs. Grace Rao (Deaconess Spirituality)

That is a full load! Please pray for our students as they diligently apply themselves to their studies, that these endeavors may come to fruition and help them in their quest to become  church workers.

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