The Study Center, Winter 2017

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THIS ISSUE: AN OPEN DOOR ON CHANCELLOR

by Lee Bunn, page 3

HOW YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS

2017–18 Annual Fund Update, page 4

STUDY CENTER STAFF BILL WILDER

Executive Director bill@studycenter.net

RICK CAMPANELLI

On the cover: After student volunteers helped the staff deck our Study Center halls for Christmas, fourth year Krunal (Kru) Patel finds a study rhythm in our Main Meeting Room during fall exam snacks 2016. (Photo by Brittany Fan.) Page 4: Third year and Study Center hospitality intern Sarah Newsome hangs out with Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Women Lane Cowin at our 2016 Homecomings Tailgate. (Photo by Rosa Yoon.) Page 5: Andy Crouch lectures on power and vulnerability; Elzinga Residential Scholar Beatrix Castelly (NURS ‘20) listens as Professor Simon Oliver teaches on creation during his October 2017 lecture; students gather in the Richman Room on a Friday afternoon for the “Why Are There Denominations” small group led by Fitz Green and Jay McCabe. (Photos by Brittany Fan, Nate Park, and Katie Carr.) Page 6: Liv Schoffstall (CLAS ‘17) and hospitality intern Meg Evett (CLAS ‘20) chop vegetables together for an afternoon exam snack last spring; Fourth year and Elzinga Residential Scholar Alyssa Mazanec joins her parents at the 2017 Homecomings Tailgate. (Photos by Brittany Fan and Jeff Dillenbeck.) Page 7 Christ Episcopal Church student ministry leaders Catherine Allen and Dave Zahl gather in the library for Move-In Day Lunches 2017 to introduce themselves to undergrad students.

(Photo by Brittany Fan.)

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Director of Graduate Ministries rick@studycenter.net

LANE COWIN

Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Women lane@studycenter.net

RACHEL GAFFIN

Administrative + Communications Assistant rachel@studycenter.net

FITZ GREEN

Director of Educational Ministries fitz@studycenter.net

JAY MCCABE

Director of Undergraduate Ministries for Men jay@studycenter.net

TRISH OWEN

Librarian trish@studycenter.net

NIKKI PERRIER

SUPPORT THE STUDY CENTER THROUGH PRAYER

Development Manager nikki@studycenter.net

DEBBIE RODRIGUEZ Director of Finance debbie@studycenter.net

LISA ROHRER

EXAM SNACKS: Please pray for students to know the welcome of Christ as they join us in our building. Pray that students might view their work in light of the resurrection—with joy and hope.

Programs + Communications Manager lisa@studycenter.net

CARLY VANNESS

Hospitality + Facilities Coordinator carly@studycenter.net

AMY ZELL

RUSH HOSPITALITY: Please pray for students going through fraternity and sorority recruiment in January, that they would find their identity in Christ, and that our Rush Hospitality event would serve as a loving environment for students.

STUDY CENTER STAFF: Please pray for our staff as we prepare to host events, lead small groups, organize lectures, and serve our undergraduate and graduate students this upcoming spring semester.

Director of Counseling Resources amy@studycenter.net

WHO WE ARE We are a non-profit education and outreach ministry serving the University of Virginia and Charlottesville since 1976. We seek to serve Jesus Christ by fostering the serious consideration in the university environment of a biblical worldview, and by encouraging and facilitating wise discussion of the Truth in light of the challenges of contemporary culture.

CONTACT US FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Please pray that the Lord will supply our material needs, and that the Study Center stewards money faithfully for the sake of sharing the gospel with UVA students.

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Phone: (434) 817-1050 Email: info@studycenter.net Website: www.studycenter.net Instagram: @studycenteruva Facebook: studycenteruva Twitter: @StudyCenterUVA

AN OPEN DOOR ON CHANCELLOR Lee Bunn CLAS ‘80 , Board Member I was introduced to the work of the Study Center my first year at UVA. A non-Christian from a broken home, I had a high school connection with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), which occasionally met on Chancellor Street when Newcomb Hall was not available. I attended an FCA meeting in what is now the Study Center’s Richman Room during a particularly downbeat point in the second semester of my first year. I was lacking a moral compass, enduring “hell week” as a recent fraternity pledge, and dodging a Harvard-educated architecture professor whom I am convinced the Lord had especially equipped to emotionally drive me to my knees. That particular spring night in 1977 when FCA met at the Study Center, my soul was reborn.

My future course on earth and heaven was realigned and redeemed.

After a summer shedding my old carnal skin, so to speak, I returned for my second year, where I built a relationship with Daryl Richman with whom I lifted weights in the basement of Memorial Gym. At that time, Daryl was actively involved with the Study Center’s recentlypurchased Chancellor Street property. There was great emphasis on developing an inter-fraternity and sorority fellowship network within the Greek system, as well as encouraging campus ministries such as FCA to utilize the new Study Center facilities. Daryl had just started a Bible study at my fraternity, too. Not long after I began attending, he informed me that he had other ministries to shepherd and asked me to take charge of the group. He wisely pushed me out of my comfort zone; what I learned in my fraternity’s Bible study, dragging my fraternity brothers upstairs to engage in very memorable and often off-topic Bible study meetings, continues to have an impact as I lead men’s small group studies today.

always be parents and both Pamela and I are eternally grateful to the Lord for His grace and mercy to our family as we walk through life together.

While none of our own children attended UVA or experienced the Study Center as we did, Study Centers are important on college campuses today. My mind and heart immediately consider and Pamela Bunn with their three children, two daughtersa recent visit I made Lee in-law and two grandchildren. with Pamela to attend the Move-In Day Lunches this past August. In a jam-packed building, filled to the brim with new and returning students and their parents, it was very clear to me that if I had attended a Move-In Day Lunch, my first year of college would have been vastly different. The Study Center offers opportunities for students to engage the gospel on whatever level and from whatever point in their journey they are on.

During my first year as a Study Center board member, I have experienced on a deeper level how the Study Center works both organizationally and individually. I am particularly impressed with the many different kinds of relationships each staff member has with the students to whom they minister on a daily basis. They each carry a wonderfully heavy load with great love, grace, and compassion.

Each of us as friends of the Study Center has three avenues from which we can serve this place of hospitality and formation: our time, our talents, and our treasures. I personally am investing all three of those. Financially, we have several baskets of involvement—one being the Annual Fund which Pamela and I have participated in since our graduation in 1980, the second being a more recent monthly gift to help with the Study Center’s operating expenses, and as a board member, I’m currently involved with a third basket—offering my real estate experience as we face challenges with space and facilities. I hope the knowledge I’ve gained in my career will be used over the next several years to help explore, plan, and implement solutions for this vibrant ministry. We have a gifted team considering all possibilities.

I met my wife, Pamela, my second year—in the fall of 1977. We were primarily involved with the Study Center through inter-fraternity and sorority events, as well as through speaking at on-campus Christian orientations for new students, orchestrated by the Study Center.

I remember at one of these events standing in front of a packed house of prospective students who came to hear from the various campus ministries in a large theater-style classroom in the environmental science building. Looking back this seems like a kind of foreshadow- The Study Center offers life and eternity-changing opportunities ing to the growth of the Christian community and the campus minis- for students. When they enter through the open door on Chancellor Street, they find themselves in Christian community. Whether engagtries flourishing at UVA today. ing in learning through their various studies and programs, growing When it was time for our own three children to go off to college, we in faith by engaging with other students, interns, and staff members, encouraged each of them to pursue their gifts and passions with our learning about other campus ministries, volunteering, or signing up guidance. Some parental transparency I’ll offer is that you never for the residential program, the Study Center encourages students to know what you’re in for when you have a family, and each child is grow. Simply put, the door is always open and the kitchen always full uniquely different. We are thankful that all of our children are believ- of food, friends, and fellowship. Let’s work together to keep it that ers and are growing in their respective walks with the Lord. We will way!

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MATTERS Your prayer, service, and financial support helps the Study Center to point UVA students towards the beauty of God’s call in their lives, and to encourage them to live it out in the world. When you give to our ministry, you are enabling us to serve these young hearts and minds through these means:

PEOPLE

PROGRAMS

PLACE

PARTNERSHIP

“FIRST TIME I FELT PEACE” Christy Isler, CLAS ‘21

PEOPLE

“My first two weeks, when the feel-

a caring staff that serves UVA students and the UVA Christian community

ing of being lost and inadequate had just started to overwhelm me, I found myself in Lane Cowin’s office at the Study Center. Her praying for me then was the first time I felt peace since I

ANNUAL FUND JULY 2017–JUNE 2018

“MENTOR AND GUIDE”

Jacob Lee, Darden ‘18

had arrived at UVA, and it meant so

“Through Darden Christian Fellowship, the Lord has created a community of

much to me. God has definitely been

believers with similar experiences and struggles who can support each other

teaching me to recognize that his

and grow together. It has been amazing to see how the Lord has used these re-

grace is not only enough for my weak-

lationships to bring peace and joy in an otherwise stressful environment. The

ness, but that it is made perfect in my

weekly men’s group has been particularly special to me. This is where deeper

weakness. In the midst of my self-cen-

relationships form as we are more vulnerable with each

teredness,

other in studying God’s Word. It has also been very special

is so constant

having Rick Campanelli join us during our men’s group

and faithful to

as a mentor and guide, providing wisdom that has come

draw me back

from spending years walking with the Lord.”

to himself.”

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he

PROGRAMS

“The Study Center movement, which in many ways began at UVA, is one of the most important and hopeful developments in American Christianity in my lifetime. Unlike other important forms of campus ministry and local church presence, the Study Center directly addresses the core mission of the university—the scholarly work of research, teaching, and service. This attention to intellectual life and the Christian contribution to human understanding is incredibly important, along with the formation of students who can bring the full resources of Christian faith—all their heart, soul, mind, and strength—to their studies.

“The conversations I had with students, staff, and members of the wider Charlottesville community convened by the Study Center were among the most stimulating, fruitful, and generative of my entire year—they are still bearing fruit in my own thinking and imagination, and give me great hope for the future of Christian leadership, at UVA and beyond.”

Andy Crouch, Guest Lecturer, Former Editor of Christianity Today

“STRETCHED MY UNDERSTANDING” Kaitlyn Hyun, CLAS ‘21

“The Women and Leadership study has given me a better understanding of the history and cultural components of the Bible. I’ve learned a lot more about God’s promises, women in leadership roles and their impact in sometimes small yet mighty ways, people in general, and most importantly about God himself! God uses weak people in great ways, and this Bible

a variety of opportunities for faith and learning, fellowship and community, and vocational discernment

HOW TO GIVE TO THE STUDY CENTER ANNUAL FUND GOAL: $863,879 • GIVE ONLINE

Visit our website to give to the Study Center online through the UVA Fund.

• SEND A CHECK

Mail a check payable to “Center for Christian Study” to:

Center for Christian Study 128 Chancellor Street Charlottesville, VA 22903

• SET UP A RECURRING GIFT

Make your gift monthly by setting up automated gifts online through the UVA Fund.

• MATCH YOUR GIFT

Several employers match all or part of their employee’s contributions, enabling you to easily double or triple your gift to the Study Center. This is set up through the UVA Fund.

study has really stretched studycenter.net/support-study-center

and his plans in the lives of women.”

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ANNUAL FUND JULY 2017–JUNE 2018

my understanding of God

PLACE a home at the heart of the University that orients students towards study, conversation, and relational care

“MIXING BOWL OF IDEAS”

“OVERWHELMING FRUIT”

Carlos Noyes, ENGR‘14, ENGR–Aerospace ‘18

Cynthia Mazanec, Parent ‘18, ‘21

“The beauty of the Study Center kitchen is that you never

As a parent of two UVA students, I am so thankful for the God-

know who you’re going to meet. It’s an intersection of all

ly relationships that have been formed through the Study Cen-

Christians from around Grounds, from different years, majors, and generations. It’s a huge mixing bowl of people, and therefore a mixing bowl of ideas. You never know what conversation will come next. The result is that you break

ter. It provides a warm and embracing Christian community that is tangible as you enter the front door. As a financial supporter, volunteer, and a member of Moms Hoo Pray, I believe in the mission of the Study Center. I see overwhelming fruit from everyone affiliated with this place—they are serving as

free of any Christian bubble you might be in. It’s one of the

the hands and feet of Jesus, reaching out to our students when

best places to take a break from whatever you’re doing.”

they need it the most during the daily stresses of college life.

MATTERS

18% Support Services

ANNUAL FUND JULY 2017–JUNE 2018

• Administration • Fundraising

82% Program Services • People • Programs • Place • Partnership

These figures were provided by our accounting firm, Hantzmon Wiebel LLP, as part of our annual financial review. The full breakdown of our finances is as follows: 36% undergraduate outreach, 22% educational programs, 12% general and administrative, 11% alumni and parent relations, 8% graduate outreach, 6% fundraising, 5% educational resources.

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“RICH INTELLECTUAL FORMATION” Jed Metge, CLAS ‘13, InterVarsity Grounds Ministry Leader

PARTNERSHIP

“After graduating from UVA in 2013, I moved to

a commitment to serving other Grounds ministries with our people, programs, and place

Raleigh, NC, to be trained as a campus staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at NC State. I immediately noticed the lack of a Study Center.

Within a few months, I realized that I had taken for granted all that the Study Center provides—namely, a space near campus for deep community, and rich

“WARM, WELCOMING, AND FULL OF GRACE”

intellectual formation that happens through Study

Dave Zahl, Christ Episcopal Church—Charlottesville

Center programming and small groups. Students

“We’ve made regular use of the Study Center for the past 14

were less literate in a biblical worldview, and

years. It provides an ideal, central location that is safe, quiet,

campus ministries (including InterVarsity) often

and super welcoming—a safe harbor in the sea of pressure

didn’t have the resources to

and competition. Over the years, we’ve also participated in

thoroughly address all of the

various ‘Thinking Greek’ events, Move-In Day Lunches, and

issues and questions campus

the Grounds Ministry meetings. We love the Study Center.

culture posed to us.”

The atmosphere is studious, yes, but also warm, welcoming, and full of grace.”

The most common way our parents, alumni, and friends give to our Annual Fund is online through the UVA Fund.

To support us in this way, visit www.studycenter.net and click the “give” button at the top of the webpage. The giving form allows you to customize your gift by setting up monthly giving, matching gifts with your company, or giving in honor of a particular person or program.

WILL YOU CONSIDER ....

1

Setting up monthly recurring gifts through the UVA Fund for $10? $25? $100?

2

Supporting a specific program, like our upcoming Exam Snacks or Rush Hospitality events?

3

Giving a one-time gift by check or through the UVA Fund at the end of 2017?

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ANNUAL FUND JULY 2017–JUNE 2018

For giving-related inquiries, please contact our Development Manager, Nikki Perrier: nikki@studycenter.net | (4 34) 817-1050 | www.studycenter.net

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DECEMBER 7–9, 11–14, 2017 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.

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