Dr. Steven L. Witte was formally added to the Asia Lutheran Seminary faculty in an installation service on November 1.  Earlier this year Dr. Witte accepted a call to serve as professor and vice-president at ALS.  Steven and his wife Mary arrived in Hong Kong in early October.  Dr. Witte had served the past eight [...]

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 [...]