February 21, 2012 / by Rachel Mumme / Make A Comment / Filed under News
The Rev’d Jonathan Mumme and his wife, Deaconess Rachel Mumme, were installed into their respective positions at Westfield House on January 14th, 2012. Jonathan is teaching systematics and church history at Westfield House, serving as assistant pastor at Resurrection Lutheran Church, and is a missionary of the LCMS in Cambridge. Rachel is focusing her efforts on communications and development for the Friends of Westfield House, as well as student recruitment for Westfield House. Rev. Brent Smith, Regional Director for LCMS World Mission in Eurasia, carried out the installations into the LCMS missionary roles with personal words of encouragement for the Mummes. Chairman Jon Ehlers installed Mumme into his roles as tutor and pastor. Bishop Em. Jobst Schöne of the SELK in Germany preached for the occasion, using the text from 1 Corinthians 2:1-10. He ended the sermon with these words of comfort, “You are Christ’s – what a privilege, what a foundation to start your work: not with persuasive words of human wisdom, rather in much weakness, fear, and trembling, but at the same time in demonstration of the Spirit which is in you and with power. You are Christ’s – therefore don’t be afraid. Amen.”
Present at the service were a number of guests, from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany, and from the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The Rev’d Keith Boheim, Executive Director of The Marvin M. Schwan Charitable Foundation, was also kind enough to make the long trip for the installations. The Schwan Foundation has been very generous to the Friends of Westfield House; it was an honor to have Pastor Boheim in Cambridge for this event.
After the service the congregation members arranged for a lovely reception, welcoming Jonathan and Rachel into their new positions and congregational home. It was a wonderful celebration and joy to see people gathered from so many different parts of the world.
January 13, 2012 / by Westfield House of Theological Studies / Make A Comment / Filed under News
The new academic term begins with the installation of a new faculty member at Westfield House. On Saturday, 14th of January at 2.00 pm in the Chapel of St. Titus Westfield House will celebrate the installation of Jonathan Mumme as international tutor and Rachel Mumme as project coordinator. The Revd. Drs. theol. Jonathan Mumme grew up on a farm in Minnesota and attended Concordia University, River Forest (now C. U. Chicago), where he graduated with a major in theological languages and a minor in English (2000). His course of seminary studies included time spent at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Westfield House, Oberursel Berlin. In addition to his studies, he served as a fieldworker at Zion Lutheran Church (Mascoutah, Illinois), as curate under the Revd. Dr. Gottfried Martens at the St. Marien Gemeinde (Berlin/Zehlendorf, Germany), as curate under the Revd. Karl Bollhagen at Trinity Lutheran Church (Hampton, Iowa), and twice as research assistant to the Revd. Dr. Norman Nagel (professor of systematic theology at Concordia Seminary and former preceptor of Westfield House). During his year in Iowa he became engaged to Deaconess Rachel Kennell of Milwaukee; they were married in2005. Upon completion of his M. Div. in...
January 13, 2012 / by Westfield House of Theological Studies / Make A Comment / Filed under News
The new academic term begins with the installation of a new faculty member at Westfield House. On Saturday, 14th of January at 2.00 pm in the Chapel of St. Titus Westfield House will celebrate the installation of Jonathan Mumme as international tutor and Rachel Mumme as project coordinator. The Revd. Drs. theol. Jonathan Mumme grew up on a farm in Minnesota and attended Concordia University, River Forest (now C. U. Chicago), where he graduated with a major in theological languages and a minor in English (2000). His course of seminary studies included time spent at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Westfield House, Oberursel Berlin. In addition to his studies, he served as a fieldworker at Zion Lutheran Church (Mascoutah, Illinois), as curate under the Revd. Dr. Gottfried Martens at the St. Marien Gemeinde (Berlin/Zehlendorf, Germany), as curate under the Revd. Karl Bollhagen at Trinity Lutheran Church (Hampton, Iowa), and twice as research assistant to the Revd. Dr. Norman Nagel (professor of systematic theology at Concordia Seminary and former preceptor of Westfield House). During his year in Iowa he became engaged to Deaconess Rachel Kennell of Milwaukee; they were married in2005. Upon completion of his M. Div. in...
December 21, 2011 / by administrator / Make A Comment / Filed under Blog, News
You can now make a donation to The Friends of Westfield House through PayPal! Just select the donation button on the front page and follow the instructions. If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can create one and make a donation right away via credit or debit card. PayPal is used by lots of other organizations, so having a PayPal account is certainly handy.
October 4, 2011 / by Westfield House of Theological Studies / Make A Comment / Filed under News
The Westfield House community of staff, students and residents this term includes representatives of 14 nations, although our student from India is still awaiting confirmation of his visa. This is the greatest diversity for some years, and forms a rich environment for developing appreciation of cultural diversity. Most of the new student intake has arrived this week.
