# The Seminary Guild

- Link: https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/events/the-seminary-guild/
- Published: 2025-09-09T13:16:43-04:00
- Author: Stephen Bornheimer

#  The Seminary Guild

 1.  [ Home ](https://www.ctsfw.edu/)
 2.  [ About ](https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/)
 3.  [ Events ](https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/events/)
 4.   The Seminary Guild

## 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.

#### Links and Resources

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 * [2026-2027 Sem Guild Events Insert.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z9-Hqaz85VjELJwNjlTt9JjkoqcqTQJJ/view?usp=drivesdk)
 * [View](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z9-Hqaz85VjELJwNjlTt9JjkoqcqTQJJ/view?usp=drivesdk)
   [Download](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1Z9-Hqaz85VjELJwNjlTt9JjkoqcqTQJJ&export=download)
 * [2025-2026 Sem Guild Brochure.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3cZAciaXKoM2bzCJkqPCs0HTbiWzXW1/view?usp=drivesdk)
 * [View](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3cZAciaXKoM2bzCJkqPCs0HTbiWzXW1/view?usp=drivesdk)
   [Download](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1W3cZAciaXKoM2bzCJkqPCs0HTbiWzXW1&export=download)

#### Contact Us

![Mrs. Cindy Powell](https://www.ctsfw.edu/facstaff-photos/Powell_Cindy.jpg)

## 󠀁[Mrs. Cindy Powell](https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/directory/p/powell-cindy/)󠁿

 * Seminary Guild President

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  [(260) 615-3398](https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/events/the-seminary-guild/2606153398)
[SemGuild@ctsfw.edu](https://www.ctsfw.edu/about/events/the-seminary-guild/SemGuild@ctsfw.edu)

#### Sign Up

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