At Western Theological Seminary, we are committed to both academic excellence and your spiritual formation.
God is and has been forming you, and our calling is to participate in God’s work in your life.
We recognize that knowledge of God and knowledge of self are interconnected. That is why our curricular and co-curricular offerings invite students to come to know themselves more fully as they grow in their understanding of the triune God of grace.
As faculty and staff, we’re eager to walk alongside students as they grow intellectually, seek vocational clarity, explore how to live fully-integrated lives before God for the sake of the world, and as they are transformed more and more into Christlikeness by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.
Learning to Lead in Worship
Coming together in knowledge, faith, and community.
Worship is an important part of spiritual formation and an important part of community life at WTS.
Four times a week, students and faculty gather for a time of worship and sharing. Students plan and lead chapel services as part of their training for future ministry calls. Learn more about worship at WTS by clicking below.
The Abbey
The Abbey provides a place for students to integrate what they are learning in the classroom into their own lives of faith as they engage in intentional reflection, spiritual practices, and vocational discernment together.
Students are prayerfully placed into smaller groups, facilitated by faculty members, that meet regularly (either in person or by Zoom) throughout students’ first three years.
Students in the Abbey also come together for on-site retreats at Western each fall and spring semester.
These formative components of the curriculum are designed to build community, foster prayer, and encourage the cultivation of rhythms that can sustain a life of ministry and service.
Internships
Beginning in year 2 of your seminary journey, you will engage and explore your call in a supervised ministry setting with a mentor walking alongside you. Western is committed to providing you with just the right place and space to nurture and discern your call to ministry.
Ministry settings may Consist of:
- Congregations
- Hospitals
- Faith-based agencies
- Parachurch Ministries
- Campus Ministry
- Care Facilities and nursing homes
Academics
Western believes that every class is formative in the lives of students. Our faculty members understand the classroom as a place of vibrant intellectual engagement that simultaneously shapes students in their lives before God. We pray that as students journey through the curriculum at WTS, they are invited to love God more fully with their hearts, minds, souls, and strength and to grow in their practice of loving their neighbors as themselves.
