by Mike Balcomb
A UTS education prepares you for many things, many of them delightfully unexpected. For example, when I arrived in 1992, the ILS seminars in Russia were running on a full head of steam. At one memorable morning service Jin Hun Nim, who was a year ahead of me, gave a forceful account of his experience in the Ukraine and challenged all the students present to volunteer that summer.
Many of us took up the challenge, and in my photo album I have a great picture of five consecutive UTS student body presidents together in a Moscow subway station. And that's another great aspect of seminary study: the friends you make there are truly your friends for a lifetime.