Abendmahl stärkt für das neue Semester
Six weeks off school means six weeks without a communion service at the start of the week. The study community at St. Chrischona Theological Seminary (tsc) found the return to this tradition on February 3, 2020, all the more valuable. The spring semester began with communion.
Meditation on the 2020 motto
In Holy Communion, Christians remember the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And in Holy Communion, community is reborn. Bread is broken mutually, and God’s blessing is bestowed upon us. It is an encouragement to faith.
Deputy Rector Claudius Buser emphasized the need for this in his devotion to the 2020 motto: «I believe; help my unbelief!»Mark 9:24). Many Christians can relate to the longing for faith and the reality of doubt. It is also a reason to study theology so that Christians can better understand faith and share more of what they have received from God.
Pleasant reunion
It was refreshing for the 144-member TSC student community to reunite after a period of being dispersed. While the graduating class wrote their bachelor’s theses in the library, less busy students enjoyed their ski holidays. Others completed internships or continued their education. For example, in a workshop with Matthias Jungermann of «Radieschenfieber.» He showed theology and education students how to make hand puppets and use them to tell stories.Annual coursereturned to the Chrischona campus in mid-January. The annual course participants‘ schedule included various seminars, for example, on «Money and the Spirit,» prophetic prayer, and the history of revival movements.
For 38 it is the last semester
Immediately after the opening service, the students streamed into the classrooms for the first class of the semester. Claudius Buser encouraged them to get to work with renewed motivation. «Get to work!» he called out.
For the 28 students of the graduating class of 2020 and the 10-year course participants, the final semester at the tsc has begun. Some of them have already found jobs for their time after graduation, others are still looking. It will be exciting to see where the second graduating class of theTheology and music studentsAfter the first three were broadcast in 2019, the next eight will follow in 2020.
Claudius Buser gives a devotional on the motto for 2020.
Making hand puppets is a lot of fun – and educational.