Read an article about two new visiting professors who will be teaching at Asia Lutheran Seminary in Hong Kong.

A professor at Asia Lutheran Seminary speaks about the opportunities for seminary education via distance learning.  Listen to the podcast.

Vashti is a new Christian.  Hebrew-speaking Israelis came to her part of mainland China to be agricultural advisors.  Their language intrigued her.  Vashti heard there would be an intensive ten-day, four-hour-a-day beginning Hebrew class taught by Professor John C. Lawrenz of the WELS seminary in Hong Kong.  She enrolled.  At the end of ten days [...]

WELS has been sharing the Gospel in Hong Kong since the 1960s.  Asia Lutheran Seminary opened in 2005 as one part of the 2003 “Now Is the Time” commitment of WELS to the wider Chinese-speaking world.  ALS works alongside SALEM, the WELS daughter church in Hong Kong, and also on behalf of the WELS mission [...]

Since 2005 Dr. John C. Lawrenz has served as president of Asia Lutheran Seminary in Hong Kong where he also teaches Old Testament and Christian doctrine.  He previously served as professor of Old Testament and Christian Education at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (2000-04), administrator of WELS ministerial education (1997-2000), vice-president for student life and Hebrew professor [...]