psi update

Nixon Gregorio Vivar Gomez will graduate this May from the Pastoral Studies Institute. Nixon qualifies for the status of “non-traditional” student for the pastoral ministry on multiple levels. Most obviously, as an immigrant from Ecuador ...

PSI Family Grows

Just over a week ago, PSI Team member, Pastor Jon Bare, and his wife Kim welcomed a new addition into their family.  Elina Esther was born on Sunday, February 26th.  The Bare family is doing ...

meet adrian gunn

Mr. Adrian Gunn and his wife, Maureen, are members of Siloah Lutheran Church of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Gunn family includes Matthew and Arianna, both students at UW-Milwaukee and their youngest, Gabrielle, who attends Siloah Lutheran ...

Team visits Vietnam

  In November, Pastor Jon Bare, International Recruitment Director, and Prof. E. Allen Sorum, Pastoral Studies Institute Director, traveled to Vietnam. There they met with and taught 60 leaders of the Hmong Christian Fellowship (HFC), ...

psi update

“If God needs me to be a pastor, then I don’t care–wherever it is needed to make the church–I will go.”  This the commitment of Simon, a South Sudanese PSI student in Renton, WA.  Simon ...

PSI update

  The PSI Team is complete. Pastor Jon Bare accepted the call to serve as the International Recruitment Director this spring. He joins World Seminary Professor Brad Wordell and myself (PSI Director). This team’s assignment ...

Sudanese conference held

In February 2016, the seminary hosted a Sudanese Conference. Four Sudanese men and their Anglo ministry partners spent two days discussing the doctrine of church fellowship, preaching, and strategic planning for North American congregations and ...