The Trinity Academy for Congregational
Leadership
The Cleveland Program
Concentration in African American Church
History
First Call Theological Education
Lectureships
Promise for Life Holocaust Education program
Summer Seminary Sampler for high-school
youth
The Arts at Trinity
Theological Education for Leaders
and Laity
The Trinity Academy for
Congregational Leadership is a prescribed regimen of courses
that work together to provide a fuller understanding of the Gospel
and its meaning for Christians in today’s world. Its purpose is
to educate men and women in witness and service for the sake of
God’s mission. Congregational leaders, parochial school teachers,
parents and others will benefit from Academy courses.
The Cleveland Program gives people
living in or near Cleveland an opportunity to take courses that
would apply to Trinity’s degree programs, allowing prospective students
to explore theological education without having to relocate. (If
you are not planning to enter a degree program, you are still welcome
to take classes.)
Concentration in African American
Church History is now an option that can be chosen in any of
Trinity's first degree programs. In addition to Trinity's traditional
course offerings with an emphasis on African American heritage and
experience, new classes, including a required course, have been
added to the curriculum.
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First
Call Theological Education
Theological education is a process of lifelong learning, which addresses
ministry in our changing ministry contexts. This requires faithful
leaders with abundant gifts and special qualities. Foundations have
been laid in seminary education. To a large extent, however, ministry
skills are finally realized only in the practice of ministry in
the setting of a specific congregation and its larger social, economic,
and cultural context. Newly called leaders learn to do ministry
and develop a "habit of the heart" for lifelong learning during
early years of service.
The 1995 ELCA Churchwide Assembly took action to require all pastors
and rostered lay leaders, during the first three years under call,
to participate in structured programs of theological education.
These programs are to be designed and supervised by the synods,
following churchwide standards. Trinity Lutheran Seminary is a resource
to the synods to provide First Call Theological Education.
Lectureships
Several programs each year bring outstanding scholars and church
leaders to seminary classes or the entire seminary community.
The Hein-Fry Lectureship was established as a memorial to
Carl Christian Hein, last president of the Evangelical Lutheran
Joint Synod of Ohio and first president of the American Lutheran
Church, and Franklin Clark Fry, last president of the United
Lutheran Church in America and first president of the Lutheran Church
in America. C. C. Hein graduated from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological
Seminary in 1888.
The Kantonen Lectureship was established in honor of the
late T. A. Kantonen, who retired in 1968 after thirty-five
years of distinguished service as Professor of Systematic Theology
at Hamma School of Theology. Gifts from the Fellowship of Hamma
Alumni initiated the fund, which has been augmented by the estate
of the late Emma R. Jockel. Through this lectureship outstanding
persons from other churches are invited to lecture on ecumenical
themes.
The Nelson W. Trout Lectures on Preaching, established in
1991, honor a former faculty member and a 1952 graduate of the Evangelical
Lutheran Theological Seminary, who was the first African American
to be elected bishop of a Lutheran synod in the United States. The
lectures are delivered at the seminary biennially and in a congregational
setting in the intervening years.
Promise
for Life Holocaust Education Program
The bronze Promise for Life sculpture, designed by Columbus
artist and Holocaust survivor Alfred Tibor, serves as the focal
point for a continuing series of educational events sponsored by
the seminary, the Columbus Jewish Historical Society, and other
community organizations. The sculpture is a memorial to those who
died in the Holocaust and to all who died because of the sin committed
by one people against another. Promise for Life calls everyone,
first, to remember suffering and injustice, and then to protect
and preserve life, justice, freedom and peace for all.
Summer
Seminary Sampler
This innovative three-week residential program for high school youth
provides a comprehensive sampling of seminary life and ministry
for up to 15 participants.
Students begin and end each day with devotions. Three days a week
they attend classes taught by seminary professors. Here they learn
and discuss such topics as faith and how it develops, contemporary
Christian music, and ethical issues. Attending classes with the
high schoolers are three seminary students who serve as student
counselors throughout the program.
Students also shadow mentors from a wide variety of active ministries
such as hospice, mission development, service agencies, and parish
ministry. Further, they participate in varied service projects,
from working on Habitat for Humanity homes to taking the elderly
from Lutheran Village for walks.
The
Arts at Trinity
Annual offerings of music and drama at Trinity provide opportunities
for enrichment.
Music. "Tuesdays at Trinity," Trinity’s summer music series,
offers three Tuesday evening concerts during the month of June.
Choral Evensong occurs in the fall and spring. Trinity Seminary
Choir, organ, instruments, and LBW Evening Prayer combine sometimes
in a larger choral work, sometimes in hymn arrangements. Summer
Music Courses take place during the month of June.
Performing Arts. One major theater production per year is
performed in the Gloria Dei Worship Center. Occasional shorter pieces
are also offered.
Theological
Education for Leaders and Laity
Three unique programs are offered to meet the different needs and
interests in our community.
The Enrichment Program allows interested persons to take
regularly-scheduled Trinity courses and summer intensive courses
on a noncredit basis.
The Certificate Program leads to a certificate that concentrates
in Christian education, church leadership, or Bible and theology.
A certificate may be earned by taking courses in the Lay School
of Theology and auditing classes in the regular or summer programs.
Degree Credit Option allows for certificate course work to
satisfy some of the credit requirements for one of Trinity’s degree
programs.
The Center for Educational Ministry in the Parish (CEMP) and the
Office of Continuing Education of Trinity Lutheran Seminary work
together to provide these programs.
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