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CEMTA Celebrates 50 Years of God's Faithfulness

SAN LORENZO, Paraguay — “What you have heard from me before many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2). This Bible verse permeated the August 10 -12 celebration of God's faithfulness during the 50 years of existence of CEMTA (Centro Evangélico Mennonita de Teología Asunción, the Mennonite seminary in Paraguay).

Featured at the 50th anniversary celebration were an August 11-12 symposium on “Theological Education in and for the 21st Century,” a choral seminar, worship and thanksgiving.

Symposium speakers started with Anabaptist theological principles, continued with an analysis of post-modernity and the Paraguay context, and concluded with proposals for theological education at CEMTA. Forty-eight former students, pastors and 72 students of CEMTA and IBA (Instituto Bíblico Asunción), university-level schools of theology, attended.

At the same time, Paul Dueck of Canada directed a choral seminar. Twenty-one former students participated as well as current students of the CEMTA University of Music. A choir, formed during the seminar, offered thanksgiving songs during a Friday evening musical program. The CEMTA choirs also sang hymns highlighting God’s faithfulness. With remarkable energy and musicality students offered God honor and glory, bringing to mind Psalm 103:2, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not any of his benefits.”

Anniversary activities closed with a thanksgiving service on August 12. The program included historical reflections, a biblical message, songs by the choirs, words of appreciation, testimonies, and greetings.

Finally, new facilities (library and auditorium) were officially inaugurated and a commemorative plaque was uncovered.

Participants in the festivities came from different parts of Paraguay and from abroad. They left challenged by the commission from 2 Timothy 2:2.

— From a report by Renate Penner