RELIGIOUS GUIDE Spotlight Look for this directory in the paper every Thursday and online at: www.statenews.com/religious All Saints Episcopal Church 800 Abbot Road East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Phone: (517) 351-7160 E-mail: allsaints@allsaints-el.org Website: http://www.allsaints-el.org Worship Times: Sunday Worship: 8 am & 10 am Sunday School: 10 am Sunday Vespers: 5 pm Thursday Prayer & Breakfast: 7:30 am Ascension Lutheran Church 2780 Haslett Rd., E. Lansing Between Hagadorn & Park Lake Rds. (517) 337-9703 Adult Bible Study: 9am Sunday School: 9am Worship Service: 10am
Maundy Thurs, April 13 7:00pm Good Friday 1:00 & 7:00pm Easter Breakfast with egg hunt 9am Easter Service 10:00am ascensioneastlansing.org
Chabad House of MSU 540 Elizabeth St. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 214-0525 chabadmsu.com Prayer services, Friday night services, followed by a traditional Shabbat dinner @ Chabad. Shabbat Day Services 10:00am @ Chabad, followed by a Traditional Shabbat lunch @ 12:15pm. For weekday services & classes call 517-214-0525. Eastminster Presbyterian Church 1315 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI, 48823 (517) 337-0893 www.eastminsterchurch.org Worship Gatherings: Sunday Worship 10:30 am UKirk Presbyterian Campus Ministry Wednesdays at 7pm www.ukirkmsu.org Greater Lansing Church of Christ 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. East Lansing, MI (Meeting at the University Christian Church building) (517) 898-3600 Students welcome! Sunday Worship: 8:45am Sunday Bible class: 10:15am Sunday Evening: Small Group Wednesday: 7pm - bible study Students please feel free to
call for rides http://www.greaterlansingcoc.org Haslett Community Church 1427 Haslett Road Haslett, MI 48840 Phone: (517) 339-8383 Worship Hours: Sunday Worship at 10:00am www.haslettcommunitychurch.org
Hillel Jewish Student Center 360 Charles St., E. Lansing (517) 332-1916 Friday Night Services: 6pm, Dinner: 7pm September - April
stjohnmsu.org Sunday: 8am, 10am, Noon, 5pm, 7pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12:15pm Tuesday & Thursday: 9:15pm
Trinity Church 3355 Dunckel Rd. Lansing, MI 48911 (517) 272-3820 Saturday: 6pm Sunday: 9:15am, 11am trinitywired.com University Baptist Church 4608 South Hagadorn Rd East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-4144 www.ubcel.org 10 AM Worship Service 11:15 Coffee Hour 11:30 Sunday School
River Terrace Church 1509 River Terrace Dr. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-9059 www.riverterrace.org Service times: 9 & 11:15am
University Christian Church 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-5193 universitychristianwired.com Sunday: 11:15 am Sunday Bible Study: 10:15am
St. John Catholic Church and Student Center 327 M.A.C. Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 337-9778
Senior fights for city council seat
The Islamic Society of Greater Lansing 920 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823 Islam 101 May 7, 2:30 p.m Friday Services: 12:15-12:45 & 1:45-2:15 For prayer times visit www.lansingislam.com/
Martin Luther Chapel 444 Abbot Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-0778 martinlutherchapel.org Sunday: 9:30am & 7:00pm Wednesday Worship: 9pm Mini-bus pick-up on campus (Fall/Spring)
Riverview Church MSU Venue MSU Union Ballroom 2nd Floor 49 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-694-3400 Website: rivchurch.com Worship Times: Sundays at 6:30PM during the MSU Fall and Spring semesters
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University United Methodist Church & MSU Wesley 1120 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-7030 universitychurchhome.org msuwesley.org Sunday: 10:30am 9:00am Garden Service in the summer TGIT: 8:00pm Thursdays Sept. - April WELS Lutheran Campus Ministry 704 Abbot Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 580-3744 www.msu.edu/~welsluth 6:30pm Saturday Worship
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Aaron Stephens and his two campaign managers, Undra Brown, left, and Emilee Nazareth, right, pose on Sept. 13, at his house on Kedzie Street. Stephens is running for East Lansing City Council. PHOTO: MATT SCHMUCKER BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
“Political newcomer” seems to be an unfavorable description for Aaron Stephens, though it is appropriate in all technicality. It’s what they label you the first time you run for public office even if your whole life has centered around politicking. Stephens, despite his immersion in all things politics, is still a political science pre-law senior running for a spot on East Lansing City Council. The vantage point most of the voting public has, he’s a kid. Just 21 and fighting for a spot in one the state’s most politically active cities. For unthinking minds and the incumbents sitting in a chummy position, it would seem easy to write him off. The college kids, city residents like to say, don’t know enough. They’re only temporary, they shouldn’t be weighing in on the issues. One city official allegedly told him “he has no shot in hell” at capturing a seat, finishing the comment with a laugh and a smile. But Stephens, determined to pull an upset, got an extra kick out of it. An extra kick he probably didn’t need. His bookshelves are lined with copies of political science books, neatly kept and well worn from what appears to be hours of meticulous attention to the contents. Campaign signs from his time working for 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accent the shelves. He brought Bernie Sanders, a democratic presidential primary candidate, to a packed Breslin Center. He poured hours into securing him — even sending his people to Vermont to coax Sanders to come. He blurs the line between the blindness of youthful hope and cynicism of a well-weathered politician. He’s seamless with words and his relation to strangers who open their doors to him is as fluid as if he’s sat on their porch for years. He won an endorsement from Rep. Sam Singh (D-69th) who, at 24 years old, landed a spot on the East Lansing City Council and stayed there. For 12 years. 4
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Singh served as mayor, too, before joining Michigan’s House of Representatives where he is now the House minority leader. Tom Perez, head of the Democratic National Committee, praised Stephens openly. In the twilight hours before the most important health care legislation vote in recent memory, Stephens spoke at the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to more than a thousand people. And in a three person race for two seats, it might take a twilight push for him to capture one. But perhaps not. No chance in hell? Place your bets. The start Aaron Stephens’ headquarters, the typical college rental house built decades before he was born, finds itself as the site of a potential flashpoint in East Lansing politics. There were beds blocking the windows here not too long ago, shielding the police from seeing the parties thrown in it before Stephens and his campaign arrived. It’s clean now. Beds removed. Light to pierces the walls. It’s the same unabated light that Stephens is after, one that will pierce what he sees as a growing gap between the community and the university. “Let’s put it this way, the city right now and the university have always been at odds,” Stephens told a young couple while campaigning. “And that’s a relationship I’ve never understood, really.” It’s an odd relationship to try to crack. East Lansing does not exist without MSU planting its roots in the area — the city was nearly named Collegeville and its first neighborhoods were plotted by an MSU professor. But yet the city has formed its own independence, operating with nearly 50,000 permanent residents. And somewhere along that line where mutual dependence shrank, development charged ahead and independence became unavoidable, the relationship muddied. It has reached the point of a very public and frank fight over an income tax the city charges it needs to address financial woes. MSU says any income tax would disproportionately affect students and faculty. And Stephens wants to fix it. T H U R S DAY, S E PTE M B E R 2 1 , 2 01 7