DISCIPLESHIP AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Vital to the AU community is intentional Christian discipleship and spiritual growth — each a process whose end is to experience Christ as the living center of one’s life. This life of faithfulness involves communion (with Christ), community (with each other) and ministry (to the world). These areas of relationship are fostered through:

• cultivating the spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, Scripture reading and worship
• modeling peace, love, justice and reconciliation in a local and global context
• pursuing a thoughtful and informed faith
• committing to a lifestyle of service
• participating in university chapels
• engaging in a local community of believers

Where to turn
Stuart Erny is director of Campus Ministries. Call extension 4206 if you need an appointment or a listening ear. Campus Pastor Kimberly Majeski is also available to students. Morrison House, on the corner of University Boulevard and College Drive, houses the Spiritual Life Office and Counseling Services. The offices can be reached by calling extension 4203 or from off-campus at (765) 641-4203. The Prayer Room in the Morrison House basement is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to midnight for prayer and meditation

Church Attendance
Participation in a local faith community is important for spiritual development. Students are encouraged to identify the local church of their choice and attend services regularly.

Miller Chapel
Students are encouraged to find opportunities to use Miller Chapel in the School of Theology for prayer, meditation and reflection. Miller Chapel is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

Spiritual Emphasis Week & Impact Your World Week
Spiritual Emphasis Week is conducted midway through Semester I and focuses on our relationship to Christ and on growing in that relationship. Impact Your World Week is conducted early in Semester II and focuses on Christ’s call to us to serve in the world. Key leaders from around the world are invited to campus to lead these special weeks.

Campus Ministries Opportunities:

Acting on AIDS
Join students on our campus and other from across the nation to speak out about and actively respond to AIDS, the greatest humanitarian crisis the world has ever known. (Sally Berger, Student Coordinator)

Advocacy and Awareness (A+A)
Be more aware of the world you live in and work to be an agent of change. A+A exists to sound a call for justice and compassion in a world of injustice and suffering. (Brittany Kier, Student Coordinator)

Anam Cara
"Soul friend" in the Celtic Christian tradition, this ministry links faculty/staff, upperclassmen, underclassmen in one-on-one mentoring relationships intended to foster deep connections and spiritual growth. (Christina McEntarfer, Student Coordinator)

Christian Center Rescue Mission
Encounter Christ as you serve among the homeless in Anderson. (Jon Nelson, Student Coordinator)

Generation to Generation
Help end the isolation and loneliness that the elderly often feel by visiting residents of Anderson nursing homes with other AU students. (Caldwell Manners, Student Coordinator)

Neighbors
Neighbors, a part of Work Projects, is a ministry that reaches out to neighborhoods that surround AU's campus. Students go door-to-door, spreading Christ's love by building relationships through service, prayer, and conversation. To learn more go to www.auneighbors.org or view an article written by Matt Ingalls featured in Relevant Magazine (Matt Ingalls, Student Coordinator)

Prayer Ministry
The prayer ministry offers a chance to experience the reality and power of prayer with other students through workshops and prayer groups. The prayer ministry also oversees The Prayer Room, located in the Morrison House basement, which is open to all. (Christy Oden, Student Coordinator)

Prison Ministry
Share a few hours with juvenile inmates at local detention centers, building relationships with them and helping them to find freedom in their lives. (Sarah Peard and Mike Gentry, Student Coordinators)

Reading Circles
Student and faculty/staff-led book discussions that meet once a week to explore topics that can range from globalism to the reality of grace in our daily lives. Join one to transform how you see and experience God, yourself and the world around you. (Ashley Galvin, Student Coordinator)

SOUL/Bound4Freedom
SOUL, formerly a ministry focusing on teen moms, is partnering with Bound4Freedom, a journal making business devoted to the empowerment of women, to reach out to women in need. They hope to foster community, liberation, and empowerment by building relationships in the context of B4F's journal-making. (Dana Nahas, Student Coordinator)

Study Buddies
Be a friend and academic tutor to children at local shelters and after school programs. (Alexandria Green, Student Coordinator)

Vision Revision
Vision Revision brings to campus artists, workshops, concerts, art shows and a week of chapels that will encourage the imagination and the arts as avenues through which to see life, faith and God from new perspectives. (Ally Long, Student Coordinator)

Wilson Boys & Girls Club
Kids hold the power to shape our future. Invest yourself in the lives of Anderson children through this local outreach. (Tiara Nash, Student Coordinator)

Work Projects
Spend part of your weekend building a house for a needy family, helping clean at an inner-city mission, or renovating a church in need of repair. (Sean Hudson, Student Coordinator)

Other opportunities

• AUCME Worship Teams and Missions Fellowship - Fred Shively, ext. 4500
• AU-East Africa - Stuart Erny, ext. 4206
  
• Campus Life, Youth for Christ - Gary George, 643-8017
• CARE (Book Buddies) - Deanna Edwards, 643-2984
• College Mentors for Kids - Jennifer Norman
  
• Doulos - Fred Shively, ext. 4500
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes - Scott Wilson, ext. 4485
• Gospel Choir - Cultural Resource Center , ext. 4193
• Ministry to Children with Autism - Prof. Kathleen Dugan, ext. 4326
• Operation Love - Joy Plummer, 644-2121
• Park Place CHOG After School Fun - Rachel Chapman, 642-0216 ext. 154
  
• Prayer Cabins/Retreat - New Life Christian Church, Judy Doty, 643-3014
• Special Olympics - Prof. Paul Gray, ext. 4489
• Summer Camp Ministries - Admissions, ext. 4088
• Untold Story (hip-hop dance team) - Cultural Resource Center, ext. 4193
• VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance for low-income families) - Carol Whetsel, ext. 4358
• Young Life, Casey Jo Snyder