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Your Turn / Re: Sem. Prof. Who Impacted Your Ministry?
« on: Yesterday at 09:26:52 PM »Pastor Bohler highlights an important part of the seminarian's experience and that is
the vicarage supervisor. At one time these vicarage supervisors were chosen with great
care and discernment by the seminaries. Most of them were great mentors to their
vicars. It seems Pastor Bohler hit the jackpot on his vicarage.
Unfortunately, that is not always the case today. Fewer parishes want a vicar and some
get one simply because they signed up for one. It is still important that a parish pastor
be a good mentor for his vicar and has something to offer him from his experience in the
parish. There are still some congregations who want some cheap help for a year and
do not see the vicarage assignment as a learning process.
Yes, I was very blessed to be assigned the vicarage I had. I was like the 19th vicar Pastor Anderson had (Rolf Preus was the first) and by the time I came, he had his teaching and methods down quite well. But he DID say that his first vicar was the best, and it was downhill after that. 19th is pretty far downhill.
He only said that his first vicar was the best because I was more Norwegian than he was.
