Hello all!
My name is Seth Nelson and I am a Junior (First-year) Master of Divinity student at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, IA. Today, January 31st is the first day of the spring semester at Wartburg Seminary and it is starting out with some exciting news at the seminary- we have a new president! The Rev. Dr. Stan Olson has joined the Wartburg community from the ELCA churchwide office where he served since 2005 as the Executive Director of Vocation and Education. Those of us in the Wartburg Seminary community are looking forward to joining together under his leadership and looking forward to where our life together will lead next.
The seminary community is also excited to welcome back its many students who have been away for different January-Term classes in far away places like Haiti and Guyana. We also sent several students to Holden Village in the Cascade mountain range of eastern Washington. They are joining back on campus students who did studies on domestic violence issues and others who studied in Milwaukee, South Carolina and Pennsylvania, as well as other places across the country. Everyone is excited to be back on campus and sharing about their travels and their studies. If anyone is in the area, we will have an official time of sharing this Thursday, February 3rd. Students will post displays throughout the daytime and we will have worship and sharing beginning at 6 pm to officially reconvene as a community.
I would also like to add a little bit about this blog. This blog is sponsored by the Wartburg Seminary admission office and is designed to help readers stay abreast of different things happening in the community. I hope to update the blog fairly regularly as well as have others post about different aspects of seminary life or to let you know about different admission events going on. Admission representatives Karla Wildberger and Chris Deforest may contribute from time to time about where they will be traveling for Wartburg so make sure to check to see if Wartburg will be coming to you!
That is all for now. Look forward to more posts soon!
Seth Nelson
MDiv Junior
Wartburg Seminary
