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There are plenty of opportunities with our community. Weekly worship is offered Thursdays on campus at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, as well as Sunday services in the morning and evening at Grace Lutheran Church on South Garner Street.
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Don’t know what you believe? Struggling with relationships? Need a listening ear? If you are feeling distressed or troubled, if you can’t quite sort things out, if you just want to talk, you are welcome to contact our Campus Minister, Alicia Anderson. Part of why our staff is here is so that we can provide emotional, spiritual, and other support to students when they most need it!
Alicia is available by email at ara2@psu.edu or by text or phone at (814) 360-0601.
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starting out
Brady is an avid golfer and a very reliable person. He likes to be someone that friends andfamily can depend on. When he began college this fall, he knew he would have less time to golfas he focused on his biology/pre-med work. Though Brady doesn’t think his courses are actuallydesigned to “weed out” students, by the end of the first
pointing
John the Baptist seems an unlikely focus of the gospel as we are getting ready for Christmas in just a couple weeks. No sign of a manger or baby. Just a wild-sounding strange character, yelling at people in the wilderness. How is this going to lead to Christmas? The weeks of Advent finds us preparing for God to break into
weekly prayer: 12/9
O God, You are here, all around me. You bring healing and hope. You bring justice and new beginnings. You bring transformation. Somedays, I struggle to follow you. It is hard to find the strength or compassion or patience to live out your love. I have so much to do. So many burdens. So few resources. Fill me with hope
Finals Week Foods at Pasquerilla
The Center for Spiritual and Ethical Development will serve snacks and meals during Finals. Stop by the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center lobby for some fuel for your studying. There will be grab and go snacks all week with coffee and tea on tap all day PLUS meals Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. They will serve Domino’s pizza for dinner Monday, December 15
Matthew 3:1-12
1 In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’ ”4 Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather
as Advent begins
I love the tradition of the Advent wreath. Every year, I put four deep blue candles into my wreath and my family sings “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” as we light one candle this first week. In the words of the song, we call God to come close. We sing the story of God’s care and connection to God’s people.