Look Inside – Rising to the Occasion

Some innovative thinking and restructuring of seminaries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) is making it possible for future pastors and diaconal ministers to prepare for ministry in ways few would have thought possible a few years back. “I was just shocked,” says Aneeta Saroop, now pastor at St. Mary of the Incarnation Anglican Church just outside Victoria. “I never thought in a million years that I would be able to finish the degree. The change in the way the seminary offered its program allowed me to complete the degree and go on to be a rostered ordained pastor in the...