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Start of 2025 Academic Year

LTS Admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:20:07 +0000

On Monday February 3rd, LTS started the 2025 academic year with an orientation day. The year’s first classes were held yesterday, and today a service of Confession and Absolution was celebrated, where registrar Rev. Hanfato preached. While we still are awaiting the arrival of a couple of international students, most students are back in class. May God bless the start of the new academic year!

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Rev Hanfato new LTS registrar

LTS Admin — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:12:42 +0000

Rev. Mintesinot Birru Hanfato has at the last LTS board meeting on 24 October 2023 been appointed as registrar of LTS. Rev. Hanfato has been serving at LTS since 2014. He has a masters degree in New Testament studies from the Mekane Yesus seminary in Ethiopia, and is busy with his PhD in Old Testament Studies at UNISA. The position of registrar had to filled after the tragic passing of Rev. John Nkambule earlier this year. The LTS registrar is responsible for student admissions and many aspects of the academic programme of our seminary. God bless Rev. Hanfato in his new position.

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Last Intensive Course of 2023

LTS Admin — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:49:40 +0000

We are privileged to have both Prof. Dr Werner Klän (SELK, Germany) and Dr Dieter Reinstorf (FELSISA) teaching intensive courses at LTS from October 2-13. Prof Klän is teaching “Theology of the Lutheran Confessions”. Klän has been a regular instructor at LTS since 2008, but because of the pandemic, it is his first visit in four years. It is wonderful to have him back. Dr Reinstorf, former Bishop of the FELSISA, is teaching at LTS for the first time in many years. He had taught at the seminary in Enhlanhleni previously, that was before the seminary moved to Pretoria at the end of the year 2000. Reinstorf is teaching on Luke’s Gospel. We wish instructors and students a blessed time!

On the photo, back, from left to right: Rector Hiestermann, Rev. Hanfato, Dr Reinstorf. Front: Dr Werner Klän, student Vuyi Nkambule, who led Matins, and lecturer Tobias Schütze.

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