Introduction

Hello! My name is Christopher Maronde. I am a second year seminary student (soon to be vicar) at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At the end of February, I traveled with sixteen other students and one professor to Tshwane Lutheran Theological Seminary, located in Pretoria, South Africa. Returning from this trip, we all sought to support the work of the seminary in some way. One of those means has been congregational presentations. Another is this blog.



I will not take credit for coming up with the idea of a blog- that idea came from one of the supporters of the seminary, Rev. Wolfmueller of the Rocky Mountain District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It has probably been close to two months since he gave me the suggestion, and now finally it is ready to launch. The plan for this blog is to be a place where information can be shared about the seminary by people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. We hope to have visiting professors, resident professors, the students, various supporters here in the U.S., and the sixteen American students who traveled to South Africa in February and March write about the seminary. I am the 'administrator' of this site, so to speak, but all of these groups will have access to write.



Just for your information, there are primarily two groups involved with the seminary (someone correct me if I am wrong): The Rocky Mountain District and Southern Illinois District of the LC-MS. The links to their websites are (or soon will be) on the side of this page. That's it for now- take a look at the other sites and check here for updates as we seek to inform many about a seminary that is preparing pastors for all of Africa.