An Early Field Training (EFT) program during their junior and middler year gives students a modest amount of practical experience under the guidance of pastors in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
After completing the middler year, all students are obligated to a full year of training as vicars in a congregation. This training is a part of the seminary curriculum and is administered under the supervision of the local pastor in collaboration with the seminary.
Students receive their vicar assignments through the Assignment Committee of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod after they have been recommended for a vicarship by the faculty.
In their senior year students may be engaged by congregations as part-time assistants through consultation with the seminary’s director of student field services.
The pastors of congregations to whom vicars have been assigned are expected to complete the seminary’s vicarship report form and to return it to the seminary at the conclusion of the vicarship year. Reports are also requested of pastors who supervise part-time assistants.
