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Computer Donation

LTS Admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:34:29 +0000

Four new computers have been donated to the LTS library by the Diasporawerk of the SELK. The donation was facilitated by Prof. Dr. Werner Klän, who is the chairperson of the Diasporawerk. He currently is teaching Lutheran Confessions II (Smalcald Articles and Formula of Concord) at LTS, and realized the need for new computers, as the current ones are old and very slow. The old computers will still be used though. They have been moved to the student dorms, so that students can do their assignments even when the library is closed. In the library, the computers are used for Computer Literacy classes, for research and general use by the students! On the photo are Prof. Klän, librarian Margarette van Zyl, and some of the students in the Computer Literacy class. We are very grateful for this very useful donation!

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SELK Tour Group Visits LTS

LTS Admin — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:21:27 +0000

On Wednesday, 8. October 2019, the LTS welcomed a group of visitors to the campus, all of whom are members of the SELK, our German sister church. The visitors toured the revamped LTS campus and met with staff and students during their visit. The group was led by Pastors Christian Tiedemann and Axel Wittenberg. Both of these men have long-standing connections to the confessional Lutheran church in South Africa. Pastor Tiedemann grew up in South Africa as the son of German missionary Kurt-Günter Tiedemann and served first as missionary in Dirkiesdorp and then as pastor of Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Wartburg, South Africa from 2008 to 2014. Pastor Wittenberg served as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Arcadia (which meets for divine services in the LTS chapel every Sunday) from 2009 to 2012. Both now live and serve as pastors of the SELK in Germany.

The visitors are on a trip to see the sights of South Africa and to visit places where the Lutheran Church is at work.

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Trilateral Apartheid Commission meets at LTS

LTS Admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:11:11 +0000

On Friday, 7 September, the members of the Trilateral Apartheid Commission met on the campus of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tshwane. The Commission consists of delegates from three sister churches and their joint mission society: The Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA), the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (SELK), the Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa (FELSISA), and the Mission of Lutheran Churches (MLC, known in Germany as Lutherische Kirchenmission or LKM). The Commission is chaired by Prof. em. Dr. Werner Klän (SELK), while the managing director is Bishop em. David Tswaedi, DD (LCSA).

The Commission finalized the content of a reader documenting the available recorded history of the churches in question and the mission. At the same time, it is clear that the documentation is sorely incomplete due to the lack of oral history reflecting statements by eyewitnesses. The process of recording the oral history by means of interviews is turning out to be more difficult and protracted than expected.

The Commission agreed that this project needs to be completed as soon as possible, and so the chairman was requested to direct a written request to the participating churches highlighting the urgency of and need for ongoing cooperation, even after the publication of the reader.

All members are convinced that the events of the past continue to define in some ways and to burden the relationships between the sister churches. This makes it all the more imperative to continue with such multilateral dialogues, in order to promote reciprocal understanding in the congregations.

(Translated from SELK News)

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