Caring for Seminarians and their Families
The CTSFW Seminary Guild is a group of women from Fort Wayne area congregations who work together to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of CTSFW’s students. The combined efforts of Seminary Guild members make a great impact on the future servants of Jesus Christ who will teach the faithful, reach the lost, and care for all.
The Guild’s mission is to serve God by communicating needs and encouraging support of the Seminary and its students. The Guild meets monthly at CTSFW during the academic year to conduct business and hear from guest speakers. Recent Guild projects include providing water bottle filling stations around campus, purchasing new microwaves for the dining hall, and facilitating distribution of frozen food to families by purchasing an upright freezer for the Food Co-op.
How We Serve
The Legacy Project provides every new pastoral and diaconal student with a copy of the Pastoral Care Companion when they receive their fieldwork assignment. The book contains prayers, readings, hymns, and liturgy that guide those caring for individuals in times of celebration and times of distress and is useful for both pastors and deaconesses as they serve the church.
The Seminary Guild hosts receptions after the Vicarage and Deaconess Internship Assignment Service, the Candidate Call Service, and commencement. The Guild also gives gifts to the wives of graduates and to deaconess graduates at the end of each academic year and donates funds to various student groups on campus.
Students who live on campus receive a skillet cookie and a birthday greeting from the Seminary Guild at the beginning of their birthday month.
The Seminary Guild provides snacks at the post-chapel coffee hour during finals week each quarter.
The Seminary Guild welcomes new babies of students with a t-shirt and booties.
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