Religious Life Newsletter: Volume 7, Fall 2004, Issue 1
Items of Interest
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sundays:
9am-Catholic Service
11am-Chapel Service
11:30am-Catholic Service
3:00 pm-Gospel Choir, Isaacs Auditorium
6pm-Catholic Service
6:45pm-Catholic Campus Ministries
8pm-Hillel
Mondays:
9:15pm-Habitat for Humanity
9:15pm-Acts 29
10pm-LSM
Tuesdays:
10pm-Tuesday Night Watch
Wednesdays:
8pm-Handbell Choir
Thursdays:
5:30pm-Chapel Council
9pm-InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Fridays:
Saturdays:
First Year Faith Friends
Thank you to all students who have helped make the First Year Faith Friends program a success! We had a great turnout this year with almost 50 students as partners in the program and many of these partners have agreed to continue to meet with each other past the length of the program. Thanks again for your time and commitment!
Submitted by Becky Rowe
Susquehanna Prayer Group
Want to do something for the wellbeing of the Susquehanna Community? There will be a new opportunity for prayer on campus this semester through the Susquehanna Prayer Group. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to join the group to pray for individual members of the SU community. Participants are encouraged to pray in their own tradition and in their own time daily. They will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement before joining the group and everyone in the group will be sent a list of people to pray for weekly via email. Meetings will be rare so there is little time commitment, but great spiritual rewards! If you are interested in learning more about the SU prayer group, please contact Becky Rowe, Deacon of Spiritual Nurture, at rowe@susqu.edu. Hope to hear from you!
Submitted by Becky Rowe
SU's Gospel Choir
Every Friday evening at 6, you'll hear the sounds of laughter and singing coming from Greta Ray Lounge in Weber Chapel. This rambunctiousness is the student-run Gospel Choir. The Choir welcomes all and focuses on praising God as well as having fun. We're looking for pianists and other musicians in addition to singers. Come join us!
Submitted by Erin Markel
Gospel Choir Web site
Habitat House
Working in partnership with Snyder-Union Habitat for Humanity, SU's Habitat chapter is sponsoring its first house raising, made possible in part through a grant from Thrivent Financial.for Lutherans. The house is being built for a local family that includes a husband with disabilities, wife and four children, ages 5-14.
The chapter's first work party will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11. Coined "Home-Building for Homecoming," since Susquehanna's Homecoming Weekend will encompass the date, the work party will result in the floor being constructed over the home's foundation. Subsequent Saturday work parties will be opened to other members of Susquehanna University and the local Lutheran community, who pledged their support as part of the Thrivent grant proposal.
Union-Snyder Habitat will hold a ground-breaking ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the building site, located along Minton Drive in Wedgewood Gardens, just south of Selinsgrove along Route 35.
For more information, contact Drew Hubbell, assistant professor of English, who serves as the faculty advisor to Susquehanna's Habitat chapter at x4203 or hubbell@susqu.edu. To volunteer, send an e-mail to habitat@susqu.edu.
Prof. Bohmbach and Dr. Martin Bible Studies
Prof. Bohmbach and I have decided to start up our home bible study again, beginning on Monday, September 13. The time will again be 8 – 9 PM. Dr. Bohmbach and I were wondering about a topical foray into the ethics of the bible, possibly around the themes of Christian ethical responsibility to the environment and Christian ethical responsibility in relation to global consumerism. Dates for the semester: 9/13, 9/27, 10/11, 10/25, 11/8, 11/22, 12/6. It would be nice to get some RSVP's before the first meeting. Hope to see you this coming Monday at 609 Orange Street!
Submitted by Dr. Thomas Martin
