Dean of Students, Director of MDiv & MA Programs
Office 325
Phone: 773-256-0756
Email: tbaeder@lstc.edu
Current Students
LSTC is a community that is in constant re-formation and continual transformation. We are a community that is ever tasting the rich diversity of God's multiplex creation while being 'on the move," called to listen to each other's stories and to seek nourishment and growth in the rich and fertile loam of God's love and forgiveness.
Over the past few weeks Community Life has been working at putting together the Retreats and Workshops that will begin the new academic year: The Returning Students Retreat, Transition to LSTC and Orientation. These three opportunities are designed to help us transition (or transition back) to LSTC and to help us create and live in community.
The Returning Students Retreat is an opportunity for our "Returning Students" (duh!) to reconnect with each other, to reconnect with the seminary community, to get back into the flow of academia. Students have an opportunity to "share" how they have been formed through their recent experiences in their journey (CPE, Internship, etc.) and to do a "lighthearted" theatrical review of their experiences of the past year.
Transition to LSTC is our "welcome" to all of our new students. We begin with a Eucharistic service, a welcome and an opportunity to get to know each other. We spend time looking at the shape of theological education here at LSTC and our curriculum, get to know faculty and staff, and learn a little bit about the unique shape of our community - both Hyde Park and the diverse LSTC community.
Orientation is the opportunity to meet in a small group and individually with your advisor; to reconnect with your classmates, to have input into the committees and structures of LSTC and to form community as we celebrate the Eucharist. Thursday provides opportunities for hearing more about centers and emphases; getting detailed information about changes in the insurance plan and updates on spiritual formation and the GIF program.
What a fascinating series of opportunities! God bless our life together.
Terrence Baeder
Dean of Students, Director of MDiv & MA Programs
Office 325
Phone: 773-256-0756
Email: tbaeder@lstc.edu