Faith Lift
The United Church supports campus ministries at 26 universities and colleges across Canada. Read how University of Alberta chaplain Denise David-Taylor describes the impact of the church’s mission and service on campus.
Although Brittney had been at university for two years, she was not able to make friends. She came to Faith Lift Campus Ministry at the suggestion of an acquaintance. She was welcomed by another student who had dropped by for tea with the chaplain. The scholars talked about university life and discovered shared interests. Brittney began to attend Thursday dinner and discussion and found a small community where she felt at home.
It’s easy to get lost and feel anonymous on campus. Many students experience anxiety and even depression dealing with academic demands away from home and community. Faith Lift Campus Ministry, together with other multi-faith ministries at the U of A, provides face-to-face contact with resourceful people who welcome those who are strangers and help them to discover their inner resources.
Our world needs more resourceful people to engage it with hope and compassion. By getting to know people from other religions and denominations as friends and by volunteering and exploring their questions about faith and life without judgement, students find hope and learn compassion through campus ministry.
Campus ministry is really people who care about people. It is where strangers can pause, take a deep breath, and learn to engage the world.
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Faithful, inclusive, just, compassionate, serving, tolerant.
These are some of the words that United Church people use to describe The United Church of Canada. Together they illustrate our United Church values, and a United Vision. They are the powerful values that we support with the Mission and Service Fund. Through M&S-funded work, the world sees in us the hands and face of Jesus in places where we cannot go as individuals or even as a congregation.
It’s a United Fund for a United Vision.
When you give to a United Church special emergency appeal such as the 2004 tsunami appeal or the 2010 Haitian earthquake appeal, 100 percent of the funds goes to helping people who are facing emergencies. Nothing is held back for administration. Together we make a difference. Join the partnership.
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Revised:
May 16, 2013
