The Graduation of the Theological Seminary Class 2021 will take place
on Monday, June 21, 2021, at 6 p.m.
Congratulations to the 3rd year Theology and Mission curriculum students and graduates of the basic theology course in the 1st year.
On June 9 and 10, 2021, ten students of the Class 2021 of the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary successfully defended their diploma papers. Diploma theses are either research papers or ministry projects of the student's choice.
The event took place in parallel on-site and online, with faculty, committee, and guests.
Here is the list of classes available to sit in on:
Wednesday 2. June 9.00-12.45 New Spiritualities in 21st century Estonia: a wide variety of spiritual teachings and practices are extremely popular in Estonia. We will explain what these are all about and how Christians should react.
– Allan Kroll (lectures in Estonian with simultaneous translation into English and Russian)
Wednesday 2. June 14.15-18.00 Systematic Theology I
– Simon Graf (lectures in English with simultaneous translation into Estonian and Russian)
Saturday 5. June starting at 11.00 Comparative Religions: learn more about Islam and Chinese traditional religions.
– Douglas Childress (lectures in English with simultaneous translation into Estonian and Russian)
On April 14 and 15, 2021, the preliminary defense of the final theses took place at the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary.
“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it happen to me
according to your word.” Then the angel left her.… Luke 1:38 (BSB)
Mary is left with unbelievable message to contemplate. She is willing to follow the Lord. Angel has left and she has to act in faith according to the message she has receive.
(Foto: Oleksandr Horodylovskyi)
The current COVID related scenario for the BMTS is
B – Clusters of infections have been detected; the spread of coronavirus increases but is kept under control.
2+2 rule; occupancy of public space up to 50%, using masks is required.
BMTS prefers to use contact learning. In case a student needs online learning, he or she must inform the Academic Dean no later than Tuesday morning before the beginning of the study session.
In case scenarios D or C are implemented, all BMTS lectures will go online.
In case scenarios B or A are implemented, BMTS lectures will go online only in case students express such a wish to the Academic Dean.
Below is a summary of the COVID related education scenarios established by the Ministry of Education as it applies to colleges and universities, together with the resulting plan agreed upon by the BMTS.
On August 28, 2020, Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary celebrated the graduation of the class 2020.
At the ceremony, 14 students from different countries and congregations received a diploma of applied higher education in the Mission and Theology curriculum. Three students graduated cum laude diploma, and three students received special awards.
BMTS is happy to announce that our alumnus Allan Kroll will begin teaching for us this autumn!
Allan graduated from our Seminary in 2006, having written his Diploma Paper on the Effata Revival and defended his Master’s thesis at UI in 2020 on the topic, “Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Manifestations from the Apostolic Fathers until Augustine.” (VAIMUANDED JA VAIMUILMINGUD APOSTLIKEST ISADEST AUGUSTINUSENI.)
Allan is a pastor at Valguse Tee congregation, a prison chaplain and a well known preacher on radio and in congregations across Estonia. Allan also leads the Valguse Tee Bible school program which had 223 participants from 63 congregations and 7 different denominations in their 2019/2020 group.
We are honoured and excited to welcome Allan back to the Seminary!
If you want to study deeper with Allan and the rest of our faculty, you can find a Seminary application here.
Life before and after the virus is worth describing. As recently as on March 8 we had Dr. Phil Meadows preaching in Tallinn Methodist Church. He preached on John 20:19-22. After the death of Jesus, when the disciples were sitting behind the locked doors, fearful of what could happen if they proclaimed the Gospel in the name of Jesus, Jesus himself came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
Seminary study sessions are taking place through a combination of online and independent study. Students have the possibility to complete this semester’s courses before summer on a modified and flexible schedule.
On March 5-8, 2020 the third MTSE student conference on the topic of Church Planting and Discipleship was held at Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary.
MTSE was created 21 years ago as a Methodist educational network. It currently includes 15 seminaries. MTSE helps leaders of schools to collaborate in training, student exchange and simply make friends. Since 2017 MTSE has periodically held student conferences.
