The latest news from LTS!
“Joy and satisfaction, along with many memories,” Bishop Allan Grundahl reflected after a gathering of some 80 people on Saturday, September 10th to recognize the old Luther Seminary building at 212 Wiggins Avenue.
LTS is pleased to announce appointments for the “Our Classroom Is Western Canada: We Meet There In Mission” project. The Rev. Dr. Kayko Driedger Hesslein will serve as main facilitator and has been named as Associate Academic Dean for the duration of the project. Helping to coordinate and provide overall support is Mavis Hamilton, who has joined us as Executive Assistant to the President. Working with them in early stages is Denise Pawliuk, Project Assistant, an LTS student and diaconal candidate.
“Our Classroom Is Western Canada” is an effort to foster and support courses offered across Western Canada – serving people preparing for leadership in lay, deacon, and pastor roles, combined with a reorganization of LTS so that faculty and administration can serve from various places in the territory of the four Western synods of the ELCIC. The portion funded by grants to LTS from the Lilly Endowment run through August 2024. This project is an LTS venture, preparing us for a changing world, that will also open opportunities for study with our partner denominations in the STU and will feed our efforts to develop shared educational possibilities.
Building Common Life in the Saskatoon Theological Union
The LTS Conclusio --our awards service and school year end-- will be held this Friday, May 6th from 1 – 2.30 (Saskatoon time), and will be available live on Zoom.
We invite you to join us as we celebrate this year’s graduating students.
Early this autumn, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon will be receiving a visit from an evaluation committee of the ATS (Association of Theological Schools), which grants accreditation to North American graduate schools of theology.
In preparation for this evaluation visit, which will take place from September 27-30, we are formally inviting comments from church members in the four western synods and others with direct experience of LTS concerning the seminary’s qualifications for accreditation.
We invite you to submit a brief written statement (max. 500 words) to President Harrison commenting on the seminary’s qualifications for accreditation, focusing on LTS’s fulfillment of its mission (see “Our Mission,” below).
Our Mission: Lutheran Theological Seminary, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, nurtures and challenges all people for Christ-centered leadership and witness for God’s mission in the world.
Please email President William Harrison at