China Lutheran Seminary

The 9-year-long expansion project is featured with more than 3000 days of seeking, praying, discussing, correcting and more prayers. It would be much easier if we just stayed where we were. But no pain, no gain. China Lutheran Seminary has outgrown its current capacity and has to be expanded to accommodate more needs and services. As a mid-to-large size seminary, CLS is faced everyday with increasing needs: more classrooms and facilities, better equipment and instructional resources, more housing units and a bigger library…. These are all needed to upgrade its educational quality.

The Center of Theological Education and Evangelical Resources is being proposed to accommodate all the needs. To make the best use of space, old unfit buildings will have to be torn down before the new and taller Center can be built. To share the space and minimize the expenses, local churches and missionary organizations are invited to jointly sponsor the project and utilize the building. The Center is going to set a model for resource integration and church collaboration in Taiwan’s Christian community.

The total cost for the Center is NT$ 150,000,000, a financial burden way beyond our fund-raising capacity. The ‘difficulty’ pushed us to kneel before our Lord, to seek his provision. Praying from the top of the campus, we saw the lanes of the first highway in Taiwan, an unprecedented public project that was initiated under the common belief: ‘no action today, endless regret tomorrow’. Around the highway is the Science-based Industrial Park, another society-booming project that was initiated by a visionary policy. It is the same belief that pushed us to face the challenge – to rebuild the only Christian seminary in the Taoyuan-Hsinchu-Miaoli area, to feed the 400 and plus local churches and to renovate the only Lutheran seminary among the 145 Lutheran churches to pass on the Lutheran mission. In its 40-year history, the Seminary has produced well-equipped workers for over 600 churches. It has influenced the Taiwan society and should continue exercising and expanding its influences. As called servants of God in CLS, we cordially invite you to be part of the project, to support, in prayers and financial assistance, this grand project that is meant to benefit not just the Seminary but all the churches and evangelical organizations.

Acknowledgement: We’d like to thank the whole 11 contributors.

May God remember you and bless you!