Students are back on campus getting ready for the 179th academic year at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (CTSFW), which officially opens this Sunday, September 8, with a special service at 3 p.m. (EDT) in Kramer Chapel. The service, which will be livestreamed, will include the installation of the Rev. Dr. Jon S. Bruss as CTSFW’s seventeenth president.
Dr. Jon S. Bruss and first-year students worship in Kramer Chapel at the beginning of the orientation program for the new academic year.
Participants in this Sunday’s service include the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), who will serve as preacher, and the Rev. Dr. D. Richard Stuckwisch, president of the LCMS Indiana District, who will preside over the installation. Bruss will deliver a brief address after he is installed.
A community reception celebrating the opening of the new academic year and the presidential installation will follow the service.
Founded in 1846, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, forms servants of Jesus Christ in a vibrant, Christ-centered theological community that engages and resources the church and the world, domestically and internationally, with distinctively Lutheran teaching, practice, and worship. To learn more, visit ctsfw.edu.
