Rev. Tim A Kolb - King of Kings - Wasilla, Alaska - 4/21/2011 - Resigned from WELS.
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Greek studies challenge seminary students in Ukraine
by Oleg Schewtschenko
Pastor Roger Kovaciny and seminary students
For more than six-and-a-half weeks Pastor Roger Kovaciny taught biblical Greek at Concordia Seminary in Odessa. The students were challenged by the totally new language, hard and intensive work, and the short period of time to learn it. Pastor Kovaciny is from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and has lived more than 15 years in Ukraine serving as a professor and president of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church’s seminary in Ternopol.
This is first time our seminary has taught Greek to the students. Thanks to this class, students could see the New Testament in the new light. They enjoyed reading John´s writings, learning the Greek grammar and they worked on their own translation of the Gospel of St. John.
We hope this will be a great gift to the church and the pastors making them able to look up some difficult passages in the original Greek Bible and giving them new tools to work with the original language for the benefit of themselves and of their congregations.
New teacher arrives
The cold February session began with the arrival of a new instructor, Pastor Albert Schmidt from Edmonton, an old friend of our seminary. He has instructed most, if not all of the ordained pastors in the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine. The first time he came to teach was in August 1998.
Pastor Schmidt is teaching two classes: Christ in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) andPastoral Theology. Our students are enjoying very much his pastoral experience. “I just really love to listen to the stories from his ministry” one of the students shared with me about the stories he heard that day.
“There is so much we can learn from his teaching and examples,” commented another student.
Please continuing to pray for the students and their teachers that God would give them unity and a good working atmosphere.
Rev. Oleg Schewtschenko is pastor of LCC’s partner Lutheran congregation in Odessa, Ukraine, and also assists the seminary program with translating and other arrangements. Support for the educational program comes from Concordia Lutheran Mission Society and Lutheran Church–Canada.
7 comments:
Ok, once again...
This is NOT satire...a WELS pastor actually become Russian Orthodox, and that is an actual, UNTOUCHED photograph of the actual man?
Some of the stuff you post I would swear really belongs on the pages of The Onion.
But, at least I have the satisfaction of noting that if WELSian clergy are leaving to join other sects, that means the preps, MLC and Mequon will NEVER close since there actually will be a need to fill the continually emptying pulpits.
And of course...BA-ZING-OO !!!!!
Grumps
That is not a Photoshop, but it is a different man. I picked the most ornately dressed Russian Orthodox bishop I could find.
My wife told me, long ago, that Jaroslav Pelikan was on TV. Pelikan was LCMS in the beginning. We later knew him at the LCA church in New Haven. I went over to the TV to see Pelikan, and it was some Orthodox bishops talking. Mrs. I thought that was pretty funny. The joke was on her later, because Pelikan joined the Russian Orthodox Church before he died and gave his $500,000 theology prize to the RO seminary.
Let's face it. Did anyone ever suspect a WELS pastor would join the Russian Orthodox? Babtist. Yes. Generic Protestant. Yes. Pentecostal, swallowing the Holy Ghost feathers and all. Definitely. But not Russian Orthodox.
WELS is a satire generating station. I only hold a mirror up to the humor they produce.
If joining the RCC is called "swimming the Tiber" would joining the Russian Orthodox be called "swimming the Bosphorus"? Just askin'.....
Excellent deduction, Sherlock. That phrase is so common for semi-poping that I refuse to use it.
I never write "swimming the Tiber" either.
Many Lutheran clergy are debating the alternatives! They can keep their wives in the Roman Catholic Church, and they consider that the real thing. So does Rome, calling the Eastern Orthodox "defective."
I don't know where you got your info about Pastor Kolb, but I think you're wrong. On his Facebook page (all of his information is open), he still lists himself as "Confessional Lutheran." He lists himself as a tour guide at Eklutna Village which is an old Russian Orthodox settlement, but I don't think he's turned Russian Orthodox.
My source is in the WELS Witness Protection Service and lives in a secured, undisclosed location. He can answer when his sub approaches the surface and they can send out a micro-burst secure transmission. Until then...
I searched Facebook and came up with no page for Rev Tim Kolb. So perhaps he took that down.
I did see from the Web that Rev. Tim Kolb was pastor at Bethany Lutheran in Saginaw, Michigan, from 2005-2010, but then accepted a call to Wasilla, Alaska in 2010.
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