VOL. 1 NO. 2
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FALL 2023
THE HOLLER
Your Lutheran Campus Ministry at West Virginia University
THE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION YOUR LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY AT WVU: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
If you walk through the Lutheran Campus Ministry Chapel, you will see many signs of God’s work through The Rev. Dr. Jerry K. Robbins, who served our community as pastor for 35 years, alongside his equally amazing wife, Alice. In fact, the witness of Lutheran Campus Ministry on the campus of West Virginia University owes much to Pastor Jerry and Alice’s gifts + dedication to generations of students who walked these hills and halls.
7, 1935 REMEMBERING PASTOR JERRY SEPT. OCT. 30, 2023
When the land where the Lutheran Campus Ministry now sits was transferred from St. Paul Lutheran Church to the Lutheran Campus Foundation at West Virginia University, Pastor Jerry was there, serving first as a seminary intern as the LCM@WVU was being established as a stand-alone center-based campus ministry, and then as pastor, overseeing the construction of our Chapel. His dedication to important faith conversations, outreach to students at different walks of life, and his ways of celebrating our Lutheran tradition and embracing the new movements of the Holy Spirit was always focused on God’s love of our students.
Pastor Jerry outside the Chapel he loved and served from 1964 -2001.
Chaplain Courtney recently discovered a box of letters that Jerry had kept during his time serving at the LCM@WVU — letters and cards from students that Jerry saved about your latest vocational changes: births, weddings, job changes, and moves. His care for the students who passed through our campus is reflected in how much you all have cared for him as well (some of which you can read on page 2).
As we grieve his death, we give thanks to God for the ministry Pastor Jerry carried out among us and for Christ’s promise of Resurrection. Well done, good and faithful servant. +