 We held our first open house at KTS this past week and it was a success. Our purpose in having the open house was to invite prospective students to come and see the seminary and meet students and faculty. We rolled out the “red carpet.”
 They were met in the lobby with a table of cookies , coffee and tea. Mike Manna director of YMI along with the Church Planting Program had our coffee machines available for people to get a great cup of espresso or regular coffee. We had our residential students register prospective students and serve as guides to take our guests to visit classes and see the seminary. Our students did a wonderful job.
 Guests were then invited to chapel where they joined our residential and modular students for worship, testimony of one of our students and a message from our vice president Konstantin Goncharov. After chapel we had an informal time where prospective students were able to meet program directors and learn about each of the academic departments.
 Following that a more formal time included greetings from our president Anatoly Prokopchuk, the academic dean, Sergei Terachinka and each director also spoke. After this program students were free to look at the displays of the different programs set up in the chapel and meet with the registrar to begin the application process. The official Open House ended with lunch in the dining hall.
 Then the prospective students left and we went back to the work of the seminary… for us that would be “Training and equipping young men to plant reproducible churches in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.” I was so proud of one of my church planters… Sergei from a city several hours south of Kiev. He drove up with a car full of young men and women who are looking at the seminary. Seeing Sergei take ownership of this program increases my pride in my students and makes it all worthwhile to me.
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