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La Paz - LATTE Professor Philip and Kathy Strackbein reside
in La Paz since spring 2011. Prof. Strackbein is teaching theological
courses to seminary student Julio and 10 Bible institute students
on-site. Previously, LATTE Professor Larry Retberg made 9 teaching trip since
2007.
- Bible Institute Students: 10
- Seminary Students and Student Pastors*: Julio
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Dourados - Evangelist Gilberto actively assists the pastor of Estrela de
Belén in serving the congregation's needs with zeal.
Gravataí - Pastor Elcy serves the congregation,
Jesus Salvador.
President Prudente -
Pastor Roberto serves as a missionary, working with a small group.
LATTE Professor Nathan Wagenknecht serves as the WELS Friendly Counselor
for the Brazilian Lutheran Church. He provides theological training for
Evangelist Gilberto and offers continued education courses to Pastor Elcy and
Pastor Roberto.
- Bible Institute Students: Gilberto
- Pastors: Elcy and Roberto
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Medellín - There are two student pastors, Tonny and Henry, who serve the
congregation in Medellín. They also teach a Bible Institute
curriculum to about 12 men in their congregation and elsewhere.
Bogotá - Fernando, Fabio, and Eliseo serve as student pastors in Bogotá.
Occasional
teaching trips are made to Colombia, but most of the teaching is done online
with students in Medellín, Quibdo, and Santa Marta.- Bible Institute Students: Adolfo, Raúl, Rubén, Eugenia, and Ross
- Seminary Students: Eliseo and Fabio
- Seminary Students and Student Pastors*: Elkin, Fernando, Henry, and Tonny
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Santiago - Previously, LATTE Professor Philip and Kathy
Strackbein resided in Santiago, teaching seminary students Alex and Juan. Alex
pastors Cordero de Dios, in a small
town outside Santiago called Moca and Juan leads the congregation, Soldados de
Cristo, in the downtown area of Santiago. LATTE plans to continue the students'
theological training through online education. These pastors also teaching Bible Institute courses to Juan M, Nelson, and Eduardo.
- Seminary Students & Student Pastors*: Alex and Juan T
- Pastors: Rona (Haitian)
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León - LATTE Professor Larry and Marlene Schlomer along
with LATTE Professor Nathan and Julie Wagenknecht reside in León, México to
serve the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Church's seminary and use this home
base as a central location for teaching trips to other seminaries in Latin
America when requested. Previously, the Mexican Seminary was located in
Torreón. Due to security precautions, the seminary was relocated to León in
April, 2010.
Puebla - Seminary student Gonzalo receives theological
training by a LATTE Professor over the internet with Skype. Gonzalo leads
the congregation, Cristo Glorificado, part-time in Puebla while maintaining a
full-time job.
Torreón -Seminary student Gerardo resides in Torréon to obtain
hands-on experience with a mission congregation in Zaragoza del Sur and receive
theological training from Pastor Esequiel who serves a neighboring congregation
in Torreón.
- Seminary Students: Gerardo and Gonzalo
- Pastors: Alejandro, Carlos C, Carlos R, Eduardo, Esequiel, Israel, Jorge, and Juan
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Humacao - Seminary student Eligio is near completion of his
seminary courses. In 2010-11, he studies online via Skype with a LATTE
professor.
At the WELS Synod Convention in July, 2011, the Confessional Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Puerto Rico was formally recognized as an independent sister church in full fellowship with WELS.
Contact with this church will continue through the Commission on
Inter-Church Relations (CICR).
- Seminary Students: Eligio
- Pastors: Manuel and Sergio
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Ministerial
training continues to be done among the leaders and members in the various
congregations throughout the Caribbean by LATTE. Student Pastor Carlos C is teaching Bible Institute courses to Duhamel and Miguel.
- Seminary Students & Student Pastors*: Carlos C , Carlos P, Eric, and Ernesto
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LATTE Professors offer online education to their students over the
Internet. The Professors are in the process of developing theological online
courses for students to study in areas where LATTE isn't on-site and be
able to participate in online discussions with classmates throughout Latin
America. Much preparation is needed for each course, so in the meantime,
some classes are taught to the students via Skype. Several online courses
are already available and have been taught to Latin American students including
a few in the USA. In 2010-2011, fifteen students participated in an
online course and a few studied over the Internet through Skype.
- Online Courses (2011):
- Arely - Bolivia
- Julio - Bolivia
- Katia - Bolivia
- Andrés - Chile
- Adolfo - Colombia
- Elkin - Colombia
- Eugenia - Colombia
- Henry - Colombia
- Raul - Colombia
- Rosa - Colombia
- Rubén - Colombia
- Tonny - Colombia
- Elry - Guatemala
- Ernie - USA
- Gonzalo - USA
- Online Classes via Skype (2011):
- Andrés - Chile
- Eligio - Puerto Rico
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= Men studying for the ministry and called to serve a congregation at the
same time.
