The Exploration Event

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Who: People who are wondering about where God might be calling them and who would like to explore this question with others
What: The Exploration Event
When: April 2-3, 2013
Where: Trinity Lutheran and Bexley Hall Seminaries

Lodging provided for out of town guests
Meals provided
Some need-based travel assistance available.

Trinity Lutheran and Bexley Hall Seminary would like to invite you to our campus to explore your faith, your passion, your purpose, your calling. Discover surprising places where God is working in our world today. Meet seminary students, professors, and staff. Sample a seminary class. Learn about how to find scholarships, interact with local churches and other ministries, and study abroad. Tour our campus, Bexley, and the greater Columbus area. Find out what it’s like to venture into the world of seminary and beyond.

For questions, contact the Admissions Office
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Schedule

Tuesday, April 2nd

3:00 p.m. Registration/Tours
4:00 p.m. Mixer
5:30 p.m. Eucharist
6:30 p.m. Dinner
8:30 p.m. End Evening

Wednesday, April 3rd

7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer (optional)
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m. Explore Semiary Class
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Community Eucharist
11:15 a.m. Financial Aid & Registrar
12:15 p.m. Lunch with Students
1:30 p.m. Presentation
2:30 p.m. Explore Bexley
3:45 p.m. Sending Service

The Value of a Visit

by Shari Ayers, Director for Vocation and Enrollment

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As I write this, the admissions office, along with the larger seminary community, is preparing for the events of Orientation Week. Already the moving vans have begun to arrive, delivering both new and returning students and their families to this place.

One of the items on the orientation schedule about which I am really excited is a game night on the first evening of the event. It is always good for us to find time to play together as we are being formed into a new community, but I am also looking forward to something we are calling “savoring the flavors.” Designed to serve as an introduction to the Bexley neighborhood, the flavor savoring part of the evening describes the snacks we will be providing from eateries within a walking distance of the seminary. If it has been awhile since you were in Bexley, you may be surprised by the local fare. Currently we are planning to offer a few staples (like Farmers Market pizza and the Graeter’s flavor of the month) along with some of our quirkiest new favorites: deep-fried pickles from The Rusty Bucket and sweet corn and black raspberry ice cream from Jeni’s. I have not yet decided what we should get from the new kosher sushi restaurant across the street.

The point of this “taste and see” event, other than getting to know one another better over a deep-fried pickle or two, is to help make this place real and distinctive. The goal is to invite those who are new to this community to begin to sample and savor the flavors of their new (albeit
temporary) home.

This “taste and see” purpose is also why we encourage prospective students whenever possible to come and visit us. We want those who are discerning a call to ministry and a desire for theological education to come and worship with us, learn with us, eat with us, and walk with us. We want them to meet professors, hear the stories of students, and wander through the neighborhoods. We want them to pray in quiet spaces and stand in seminary housing imagining their own belongings in these rooms. We want them to begin to sense whether or not this is a place where they can see themselves being both supported and challenged in their formation. We want to know, and we want them to know, if they can wrestle with us, risk with us, grow with us.

Perhaps that all seems like a lot to hang on a few local flavors of ice cream, but “local” flavor is exactly the point. The admissions office plans both corporate Visit Trinity events and individual visits throughout the year. If you or someone you know is contemplating seminary, please make a campus visit a priority. Come and savor the local flavor of this community —- you will be so glad you did!

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