AMBS Window
AMBS Window invites readers to call people to leadership ministries and provides ways for readers to become involved with AMBS through financial support, prayer support and student recruiting.
Twenty-six students graduated in May and AMBS Window reports on their ministry and future plans.
Elkhart, Ind., has been the context for AMBS for 50 years. This issue looks at how the city has contributed to preparing students for ministry and how AMBS, in turn, helps out the neighborhoods where we live and study.
Students use a variety of ways courses are delivered: extension sites, online, weekend intensives. AMBS continues to find ways to make seminary studies more accessible across North America.
Read about the 2007 graduates and some of the ways God is using AMBS to shape people for ministry.
At AMBS, professors and students delve into the Bible in many different ways. Steve Schweitzer, Old Testament professor, looks at what's important for us to see in the Old Testament laws.
How students pay for seminary study is not only their concern; the church can help so the burden of this cost is not borne only by those who are prepare to serve the church.
Read about the 2006 graduates and some of the ways God is using AMBS to shape people for ministry.
Both the seminary and the church benefit as AMBS faculty travel to speak in churches and conference and retreat settings. See what we are learning and find out about new ways you can call on faculty to be involved in your congregation.
A commitment to care for creation is at the heart of planning for a new library and campus center at AMBS.
Graduates are featured in this issue, along with a new mission statement for AMBS and the 2005 recipients of the Alumni Ministry and Service Award.
Worship resources are available to everyone in the church. Read more about how technology can influence our worship and about how AMBS makes continuing education, print materials and courses available to al who are interested.
Mission and peace are often viewed as separate efforts, yet AMBS requires a course called Mission and Peace of all students who graduate. Find out how Alan Kreider, and Art McPhee, who teach the course, emphasize how the Gospel (Good News) includes God's call to peacemaking.
Read about the 37 2004 graduates. Willard Swartley, retiring after 26 years of teaching at AMBS, reflects on his life of discipleship and scholarship.
Read a more extensive transcript of the interview with Willard Swartley, professor emeritus of New Testament.
June Alliman Yoder, professor of communication and preaching, suggests how we can do a better job of listening to a sermon. Several students and graduates reflect on what they learned about preaching at AMBS.
Leaders for the church in a new generation are growing up in our congregations today. Can we help them hear God's call?
Find out more about !Explore: A theological program for high school youth.
Read about the 33 graduates and their plans for ministry.
AMBS is preparing a new generation of leaders for the church. Find out what surprises and blessings several of them have found in their early experiences of ministry.
Find out about AMBS's nontraditional programs--the programs that serve anyone interested in developing skills and knowledge for tasks in the congregation, in addition to several programs specifically for pastors and church leaders. The Church Leadership Center encompasses the programs that do not specifically lead to a seminary degree.
Read more about each of the 2002 AMBS graduates and their plans for the future.
In the spring issue of AMBS WIndow, two AMBS professors--Mary H. Schertz and Marlene Kropf--list the ten Scripture passages that are most important to them in their teaching. They both admitted this exercise was difficult, but invited others to do the same.
Let us know if there's a Scripture passage on your list that is not on either Mary's or Marlene's lists. You may send it to the AMBS Window editor, Mary E. Klassen.