“Make Known His Deeds!”
“Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!” Psalm 105:1
Together with you, for 175 years we have been forming servants to teach the faithful, reach the lost, and care for all.
The funds raised will champion the Lord’s work at the Seminary in three chief ways: supporting vital day-to-day operations, providing 100% tuition assistance to relieve students and their young families from incurring debt, and maintaining and repairing the historic buildings of our campus so they will stand solidly to serve many generations to come.
By God’s grace we exceeded our goal of $75 million dollars! God has blessed us abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that we need, we will abound in every good work.
It is your faithful support that is shaping the leaders of tomorrow.
Thank you for building up and blessing your Seminary. It is you who enable us to “Make Known His Deeds!”
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The Challenge
Requests from 25 LCMS congregations for residentially-trained pastoral candidates went unmet in 2016. By 2017 that number grew to 60. By 2018 that number went back to 30. Therefore, we must graduate additional talented and qualified pastors.
Why is CTSFW the Key?
CTSFW is vital to the future of the Lutheran Church, both in the U.S. and around the world. Our faithfulness to the Lutheran Confessions does encourage other Lutheran Christians abroad to remain faithful. The newer state-of-the-art library serves all residential students in ways that distance learning cannot match. Our faculty members are sought out to teach around the world in support of the Gospel.
What is Needed to Meet the Challenge?
- $25,000,000 in current annual giving for support of current operations.
- $10,000,000 in new endowments will provide $500,000 in annual current operations support.
- $10,000,000 in current giving for Student Tuition Aid
- $20,000,000 in new endowments will provide $1,000,000 in annual student tuition aid.
- $10,000,000 in Facilities repair and replacements over the next 25 years.
CTSFW Stories
Terrified over the Prospect of Prison
The summer between my junior and senior high school years, I caddied at a country club in an east side suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The course was closed Mondays. And on one of those Mondays, two of my friends and I broke into the golf shop and stole some clubs. We were...
“Promise Me That You’ll See Him Through”
Sometime in 2017, a plumber/member of our Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and School family in Riverton, UT, came to my office and asked what it was like to be called into the pastoral ministry. We visited for some time and explored his background having been born and...
Intersecting Stories
Recently Director of Alumni and Church Relations Tim Puls visited the members of Grace Lutheran Church in Ventura, CA, to formally announce the establishment of the Yaspelkis Endowment, thanks to gifts from Andrew and Thea Nielsen. Andrew thanked the congregation by...
A Light Went On
It was at a climatic point in my life. I had gone through a divorce and had many questions, such as, “Where do I go from here?” A Lutheran pastor named Richard Mohr, fresh from the Seminary, was walking through my brother’s neighborhood. My brother and I had never...
“Special Times with My Pastor”
Reverend Robert Beinke has been my Pastor at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Norwalk, CT for over twenty-five years and there is no one I admire and trust more. His love for the Lord and his congregation is evident to all through his words and actions. Pastor Beinke is a...
“That’s When I Knew”
When I was a first year seminarian in the fall of 1978, Professor Scaer was preaching in chapel on the text of Matthew 13:44 and following. He preached so directly on how God's love and the justification of the sinner are so connected that even a sinner such as I...
“The Pastor Who Brought Me Back from the Grave”
No, I wasn’t literally dead, but people sure treated me like I was. In 2008, the life that I had planned lay in ruins. The marriage that I had fought tooth and nail for over a decade lay smoldering at my feet, destroyed by jealousies, insecurities, and a guy who I...
“Allison’s Farewell”
""My final service after 27 years at my congregation in Waterville, Maine was on August 30, 2020. I received this poem from a 14-year-old girl I had confirmed in June. 'Allison’s Farewell Poem Thank you for the sermons I can’t rememberThank you for the lines that...
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