2019 Dialogue Education Conference Held

October 11-14, 2019, the Pastoral Studies Institute of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary hosted a Dialogue Education Conference. Dr. Kenneth Cherney, Jr. of WLS trained eighteen participants working in five continents in "Dialogue and the Adult Learner." ...

From persecuted to proclaiming

A note from Professor Sorum: After dinner with Rev. Bounkeo Lor and the five elected leaders of the Hmong Fellowship Church, I enjoyed a long conversation with Pastor Vang. He is one of these five ...

An interview with Bounkeo Lor

Prof. E. Allen Sorum accompanied Rev. Bounkeo Lor to Hanoi, Vietnam to conduct a training session from June 10-22, 2019. Prof. Sorum taught the Book of Isaiah and Pastoral Counseling and Family Ministry for Missionaries. ...

Story of Kua

Pastor Vue is one of the pastors with the Hmong Fellowship Church who is training under Rev. Bounkeo Lor and Professor E. Allen Sorum. Currently he has some family members who are suffering persecution in ...

PSI Report on Santa Clara

Rev. Joon Ho Chung was received into WELS as a pastor through the colloquy process. The Pastoral Studies Institute of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary helped to prepare Rev. Chung for his successful colloquy into the Arizona/California ...

Hmong Outreach in Vietnam

 The fields are white for the harvest in Vietnam, and through the gospel, the Holy Spirit is bringing many to faith.   Jonathan Bare as told to himby Wasa Lau Translated by Bounkeo Lor   Pastor Wasa Lau is one of 60 Hmong Fellowship Church (HFC) leaders ...

Final GRATSI class: Acts 1-9

Final GRATSI class: Acts 1-9   Ongoing education is important for pastors in every country and church body. In WELS, the Grow in Grace team of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary serves pastors with opportunities and encouragement ...

PSI Visits Bulgaria

  One of the most challenging responsibilities of our WELS Missions administration is to work with a national church body, almost always one that WELS Missions started, to figure out issues like national workers’ support ...

Celebration of ministry retreats

From April 18–20, Grow in Grace, the institute for pastoral growth at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, hosted over 200 people for the seventh annual Celebration of Ministry retreats. Held at the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Tex., ...