United Campus Ministry Connections – July 2018

 

Summer Snapshots Julianna, in pink shorts, attended the PC(USA) General Assembly in St. Louis as co-leader of the Presbytery of Arkansas youth delegation.   Hartley is working at First School at First United Presbyterian, Fayetteville, a job which resulted from her Leadership Initiative Intern position.   Craig and his dad, Allan, as Craig completed Airman Leadership School.    United Campus Ministry Connections – July 2018 Meet Alex Alex is our summer intern for New Student Orientation. Alex is preparing marketing information for new students, engaging through Instagram and other social media outlets and helping us welcome students during orientation. Do you know a Student coming to the U of A? We are excited to welcome as many students coming to the U of A this Fall as possible. This includes: incoming freshmen transfer students returning students looking for new connections If your congregation or youth group has any students who will be coming to the U of A this Fall we ask you to contact our summer student connection intern with their contact information. UCM would like to invite them to the first Monday lunch of the semester on Aug. 20, Dinner & Discussion on Aug. 23, and give them information about other ways which they can stay involved in their faith while in college. Thanks and have a great summer! Do you know a young woman participating in sorority recruitment? Let us know names of any women involved in Panhellenic recruitment this August. We have survival kits that we love to send to encourage them through the recruitment process. For potential new members, let us know their name and home address by July 23, so that we can send the kits out on July 26. If they are an active member, let us know their name and chapter by July 23, to be distributed the week of August 6th. Email Susan the names and info   Pictured: Sorority Recruitment Survival Kit for PNMs. Bike-a-thon Grand Total We are SO grateful for all the support shown and connections made during the second annual bike-a-thon this year. Our total amount received exceeded our expectations.  Our goal for each fundraiser this year was to double what we raised the year before. We had one student this year who made it his goal to match last year’s amount raised, so we quickly knew we were off to a great start. The 2017 total was $1000, which was a great total for this first time event. Our goal, then, for 2018 was $2000 and that goal was far exceeded. Our 2018 event total was….. $5159!!!! Thank you to all who contributed! Letter from Susan Rose, Campus Minister Dear Friends, Our student ministry this last year reached over 100 individual students coming through our doors, attending Monday Lunch, Scone Tuesdays, Thursday Dinner & Discussion or just hanging out and studying.  We graduated 17 students this Spring, 3 of whom are attending seminary this Fall.  We raised over $5,000 for our second annual Bike-a-thon fundraiser.  A Synod grant this Spring allowed UCM to partner with a church to place a student as a summer intern, expanding their “hands-on” experience in congregational ministry.  And we just received the news that the Lilly Endowment awarded UCM a Sustainability Grant for our Leadership Initiative program.  This is our second Lilly grant, extending our first grant awarded through the Campus Ministry Theological Exploration of Vocation Initiative (CMTEV.org) from the Lilly Endowment. When I started as the Campus Minister of UCM almost 10 years ago, people were asking, “Do students even want to participate in campus ministry?”  I think we can answer that question definitively now: YES!  We are truly living out UCM’s mission statement “to engage, equip and empower leaders for the church and the world.” So, it is with sadness that I share with you that this fall semester will be my last as the Campus Minister of UCM.  I love our students and this ministry, and I am so proud of what we have accomplished together.  My husband and I will be relocating to Florida in January 2019 to be closer to family. Campus ministry serves a unique time and place in a college student’s life and faith formation.  We don’t plan to slow down in the least during this transition.  We are busy welcoming the incoming Class of 2022, designing studies for Dinner & Discussion, and planning for the fall Leadership Initiative Interns.  I hope that you will continue to enthusiastically support the mission and ministry of United Campus Ministry! Blessings, Susan Now is the time to consider turning your support into a monthly sustaining gift to UCM. Click the banner to set-up your online gift today. Parking for Fall Football You can reserve a spot for all six home games for $120.  There are a limited number of spots. Email Susan to reserve your spot today.

 

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