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The WSC family believes that community and fellowship is an integral and necessary part of seminary. This community brings to heart what is being studied in the classrooms as our students, spouses, families, faculty and staff care, grow, and pray with and for one another as we live Life Together.
One of the sweetest privileges we professors have is interacting with students, and with the new housing project around the corner that is only bound to increase. I enjoy talking with students after class, especially on topics sparked by the Hebrew and Greek texts we are translating. I enjoy discussing the content of chapel talks afterwards. None of us are talking heads on sticks; we share our lives with students, and they with us. Supporting one another in our weekly prayer groups has been stimulating to my faith. We have seen the Lord answer our prayers in many (and occasionally strange) ways. The sympathetic tear in a brother’s eye when you share a heart-pang is remarkably comforting. A spontaneous confession of sin may be a step toward a breakthrough.
“Meeting students over a meal or in my study has provided even closer opportunities to get to know one another as we talk about struggles, aspirations and future plans.” -Dr. Charles Telfer
The hard realities of life don’t cease when a person comes to seminary, and it is no small help that we have one another for counsel and prayer as we face all kinds of perplexities and set-backs. The Lord is faithful to meet our needs, hear our cries and provide whatever it is that we, our congregations and our loved ones need. Meeting students over a meal or in my study has provided even closer opportunities to get to know one another as we talk about struggles, aspirations and future plans. I feel very privileged when students confide in me. And though my own wisdom resources are very limited, PTL we end our discussion in prayer to the One who can make even the darkest pathway light in His good time.
Charles Telfer is Associate Professor of Biblical Languages at Westminster Seminary California.
