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Join
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Sunday
Morning Eucharist: 10:00 am at UniChu
Sunday
Night Compline: 9:00 pm at MemChu
Tuesday
Bread and Belonging: 5:30 - 7:30 in the
CIRCLE
Tuesday
Taize Prayer: Every Tuesday of Lent, 10:00 in MemChu
Wednesday
Choir Practice: 7 pm during
the school year at UniChu
Thursday
Midday Eucharist: 12:10 pm in the side chapel of MemChu
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| Who
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ELCM
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A
Student Group
We are undergraduate and graduate students, staff,
and faculty from all around the world. We have a wide variety
of backgrounds and majors, but we have one thing in common: a
need to take time from our busy lives of studying and working,
a need for fellowship and engagement, and a need to keep our perspectives
healthy.
Engaging
the world
While issues have changed since our founding in the 60s, ELCM
is still a community committed to social justice and hospitality
to strangers. (Click here
to see the results of our Oreo Cookie Federal Budget!) As a community
"at work in the world," we are committed to justice,
respect for conscience, and equality for all people, especially
those who are most at risk in society.
Part
of University Church
University Church, or UniChu as it is affectionately known, is
our home base, providing a center for our activities and an important
link to the community. You've probably walked or ridden your bike
right by us on
the Southeast side of campus. We're at 1611
Stanford Avenue. |
UniChu
A
Church Home
University
Church, a
progressive, ecumenical, congregation across Stanford Ave. from
campus in the College Terrace neighborhood,
is the church-home for ELCM.
Our theology is progressive, our worship is organic, our welcome
is radical, and Christ's table is open to all.
If you are in search of a congregational community, join us here
at 1611
Stanford Ave
for worship, fellowship, study, reflection on God's call, and
engagement with the world.
Our
History
This
church's origin is in the Lutheranism of the turbulent 1960's,
when the nation, the universities, and the churches were polarizing
around issues like the Vietnam War, Women's Liberation, Sexual
Freedom, and political and individual freedom from inherited values.
During the time of the Death Squads in El Salvador, the church
social halls became a place of sanctuary for people fleeing Central
American wars. It was a new voice in Lutheran Christianity for
many students & townspeople. Today, in the midst of war and
a global struggle for liberation, Uni Chu finds itself bringing
new perspectives to old questions.
Read more about UniChu |
A
Faith Community
We are a united ministry of the Episcopal and Lutheran churches, but
this community is made up of people from many (or no) denominations.
We use scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to inspire a living
faith. We are barrier-free, welcoming all people from the community
- faculty, staff, students, family, friends, neighbors, and alumni.
If you want to be here, God welcomes you.
A Group of Friends
We are a welcoming group that often serves as a family away from home.
Fellowship,
food, laughter, and community play an important role in our gatherings,
bringing us closer to each other and bringing us closer to God.
This
is more than a Sunday gathering.
This
is a loving, supportive, extended family into which you are heartily
welcome.
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Us For...
Worship
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Sunday
morning worship, with Eucharist every week, is at 10 AM at
UniChu, 1611 Stanford Ave. Dress is casual, singing is festive,
theology
is progressive, worship is organic, our welcome is radical,
and Christ's table is open to all.
Join us!
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Sunday
Night Compline: 9:00 pm at MemChu. Relax in the candle-lit
ambiance of Memorial Church and allow this reflective 30-minute
musical service of hymns, chant and psalms to ease you into
the week ahead. All are welcome. Sundays, 9:00 - 9:30 pm,
during the academic year. Fall quarter: through November 16.
Free and open to all.
- Tuesday
Bread and Belonging: 6 - 8 in the CIRCLE. Primarily for Students,
our
gathering always consists of dinner (almost always home-cooked),
conversation, and prayer. We have Bible study, discuss current
events, play games, watch movies, etc.
- Tuesday
Taize Prayer: 1st and 3rd Thursday, 9:00 in Memorial Church.
Taize worship originated at the Taize Community in France in
1940 as an ecumenical Christian monastic community of both Catholics
and Protestants. Taize worship is composed of simple songs or
chants, usually in English or Latin. It may also include readings
from scripture and prayer around the cross.
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Wednesday
Choir Practice: 7pm at UniChu. Love
to sing, but too little time? The University Church Choir
may be right for you. The choir rehearses during the school
year on Wednesdays at 7 pm in the UniChu sanctuary, and sings
twice a month at our 10:00 Sunday morning worship. The choir
schedule follows the Stanford calendar and the choir director
is very accommodating to student activities, homework loads,
etc. So come sing when you can! We would love to have you!
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Thursday
Eucharist is a quiet, contemplative service celebrated during
the school year at 12:10 in the side chapel of Memorial Church,
right in the center of Campus. If your day provides for a
break around noon, stop in for about 20 minutes of quiet,
conversation, and eucharist.
Bread
and Belonging
College students (and college-aged folk) are welcome to this weekly
gathering for dinner and conversation, every Tuesday evening of
the school year from 6:00-8:00 in the CIRCLE
Common Room. Our gathering always consists of dinner
(almost always home-cooked), conversation, and prayer. We have
Bible study, discuss current events, play games, watch movies,
etc. Bring
a friend . . . All are welcome!
Service
Projects, Recreational Events, Forums, and More
There is a lot going on in addition to our regularly scheduled
programming. Be
sure to check the calendar regularly, and email
the Pastors with specific questions or suggestions!
Stanford
Associated Religions The
Office for Religious Life has as its mission "To
guide, nurture and enhance spiritual, religious and ethical
life within the Stanford University community." As
a member of Stanford Associated Religions, ELCM is committed
and devoted to ensuring
lively, thoughtful and supportive contexts for Stanford students,
faculty and staff who wish to pursue spiritual interests. We
recognize that a spiritual/religious journey can be an important,
balancing complement to the numerous challlenges one faces in
the pursuit of academic and career goals.
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Ministry
Partners
Amigos
de Palo Alto
Amigos
de Palo Alto is a Spanish Immersion preschool housed at, but not
affiliated with, University Church. Amigos offers parents a safe,
loving, and trustworthy environment where they may leave their
children, both for childcare and to begin learning from bi-lingual
instructors how to speak and learn Spanish the same way their
native language was learned — naturally! The two preschool
sessions are offered: Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 8:30
AM to 11:45 AM and Tuesday and Thursdays from 8:30 AM to 11:45
AM.
The
After School Program known as Amigos Fun Club is designed for
children in Kindergarten, First and Second grades. The program
offers story time, arts and crafts, games and homework help if
needed. Children will have a chance to socialize in Spanish, regardless
if Spanish is the language spoken at home or acquired through
our immersion program.
South
Bay Sanctuary Covenant
SBSC is an ecumenical group of churches, religious groups and
concerned individuals from Redwood City to Los Gatos. SBSC began
in 1983 by assisting Central American refugees living among us
and later expanded its concern to include some of the crucial
problems facing people in El Salvador that were forcing them to
flee to the U.S. In general, SBSC has advocated for better local
and federal policies in order to improve conditions for refugees
here and in Central American countries.
This
October 26, 2008, SBSC will celebrate its 25th anniversary at
5 PM at First Presbyterian Church. It will include a Salvadoran
pupusa dinner. Also, SBSC will have its 20th delegation to El
Salvador, February 5 - 15, 2009. There is some scholarship help
available, especially for young people. All are welcome!
Alcoholics
Anonymous
AA
is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength,
and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem
and help others recover from alcoholism. The only requirement
for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues
or fees for AA membership; it is self-supporting through participant
contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, political
organization or institution. The primary purpose is to stay sober
and to help others do the same. For a schedule of AA group meetings
at UniChu, please contact the AA hotline at 408.374.8511.
The
Friends Program
The Friends Program is a therapeutic
group program designed to address the developing needs of young
children with Asperger’s Syndrome and their families. The
goals of the program are twofold. The first is to address the
areas in which these children have the most difficulty: social
communication, social interactions, and joint symbolic play with
peers; the second is to help the children cope with the daily
challenges of school, such as making transitions from the playground
or a group activity.
The parents group provides the
parents with guided observations of their children in the therapeutic
group in addition to participating in a parents-only group facilitated
by a therapist. The group aims to enhance the parent’s understanding
of the child, provide guidance and support for the daily issues
the parents are encountering, and provide an empathic setting
for parents as they struggle with the impact that their child’s
diagnosis has on various aspects of their
lives.
The Friends Program is housed
at, but not affiliated with, University Church. See thefriendsprogram.com
for more information.
Music
Lessons:
Talented
Musicians have their music studios on our proerty as a service
to the community. For Joy Li Piano Studio, contact 650-269-4119.
For the Violin Studio, contact
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