Category Archives: Blog

Note: The following is an excerpt from a letter written by Dr. Brad Bitner on the 2024 Cambodia vision trip. You can find the complete update from the trip in the upcoming edition of UPDATE Magazine. Our WSC team was delighted to serve the Cambodian churches. On our first Lord’s Day in Phnom Penh, seminarian…

This summer, WSCal students spread across the globe to put their academic training to practical use. 

The last few weeks have been full of God’s faithfulness to his church and to Westminster Seminary California as alumni have been ordained and installed in churches around the country! Our prayers go with them and their new congregations as they take up the call for which they came here to be equipped: to serve…

As part of our Global Church Initiative, a team of students will participate in a week-long vision trip to Japan during their 2023 Spring Break. The trip is a partnership between Westminster Seminary California (WSC) and Mission to the World (MTW)—the missions arm of the Presbyterian Church in America. As a vision trip, it will…

Westminster Seminary California alumni have been ordained and installed in churches around the country this month.

​Dozens of Westminster Seminary students are interning around the country this summer as part of their practical equipping for their future work. Read their hightlights!

“Through ordinary means and an average Joe, God is faithful!”

“The Church is a treasure, filled with God’s real people, who have real problems, real sorrows, and who really need good pastors who will give them Christ every week, in Word and Sacraments.”

“One of the highlights of my time at Westside Reformed has been teaching through a portion of the Heidelberg catechism. It has been a blessing to be able to devote time to study the catechism and teach the wonderful, comforting, scriptural truths which are contained in it to the saints here in Cincinnati, OH.”

My education at WSC has given me the tools needed to accurately exegete a passage of Scripture and craft a sermon that is edifying to the people of God.

Internships are just a small taste of full time ministry, true, but they also aren’t play time. You are dealing with real people, real souls, real sin, and real suffering. They need you to point them to Christ just as you need them. 

I had many opportunities to teach God’s Word each week. Although studying is never easy, my WSC education has definitely equipped me to handle the Word reverently and responsibly. The reverence comes from WSC faculty constantly driving home to us that Scripture is God’s living Word to us, humbling hearers by the law and making them alive by the gospel. 

I am truly grateful for my WSC education. It has prepared me for my internship especially when it came to preaching and teaching. Westminster’s rigorous academic curriculum has shown me how to faithfully interpret and preach the scriptures. 

Norman Paran interned at Skyview Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Centennial, CO this summer.

Wallie Brobst interned at Mammoth Lakes, CA at Grace Community Church.

WSC recently launched a short 3-week blog series highlighting the summer internship experiences of three WSC students.

M.Div. student Nick Davis interned at Rincon Mountain Presbyterian Church in Tucson, AZ this past summer.