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administering the sessions. The theological training began with brother Louis
Synnestvedt’s visit to Kenya, followed by His Excellency Bishop Brian W.
Keith, Rev. Dr. Andrew M. T. Dibb and Rev. Grant H. Odhner. Brother George
Omosu Magero was elected the student leader of the Theological School.
Today, August 24, 2013, we have successfully marked four men who
have finally completed their training courses, in spite of the many challenges
they have undergone. We are very thankful to the General Church of the
New Jerusalem, which has been very supportive of us, to the dedicated
instructors who visited to offer courses, and to Mr. Abuga, who has hosted and
administered all of the training sessions.
Also we take this golden opportunity to appreciate, congratulate and
thank all our four students for their mutual participation. We look forward to
the ongoing theological training of men who are moved to serve in the New
Church ministry.
Thank you all for attending our graduation ceremony.
response to the valedictory for the first graduating
class from the keugata theological school, kenya
The Rev. Samson Mogusu Abuga
T
oday is a great day for our Church in this region. Four of our students have
finally made us and the whole Church proud. Today they are graduating
from their theological training.
The Writings say:
[T]his Second Coming of the Lord is effected by means of a man, to
whom He has manifested Himself in person, and whom He has filled with
His spirit, to teach the doctrines of the New Church through the Word from
Him. Since the Lord cannot manifest Himself in person, as shown just above,
and nevertheless has foretold that He was to come and establish a new church,
which is the New Jerusalem, it follows that He will do this by means of a man,
who is able not only to receive these doctrines in his understanding but also
to publish them by the press. That the Lord manifested Himself before me,
His servant, and sent me to this office, that He afterward opened the eyes of
my spirit and thus introduced me into the spiritual world and granted me to
see the heaven and the hells, and to talk with angels and spirits, and this now
continuously for several years, I affirm in truth; as also that from the first day
of that call I have not received anything whatever pertaining to the doctrines
of that church from any angel, but from the Lord alone while I was reading the
Word. (True Christian Religion 779)
The Lord revealed Himself from the Writings of His servant Emanuel
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