Campus Ministry Notes

Dear Waldorf Alumni,

I hope you can feel the blessings already present in your life! While the world may feel scary for so many of us now, we always have more than we think. Campus Ministry has continued to thrive during the pandemic and will continue to do so this year! We’re looking forward to a new series of chapels, growth in ministry groups on campus, and getting back to our usual outreach through Community Service and the Spring Break Mission Trip that were suspended during the pandemic.

I am also delighted to join the Waldorf faculty this semester to teach the Introduction to Biblical Literature in Fall 2021. This will be a great opportunity to expand outreach to students and for me to become more directly involved in their intellectual and vocational development.

In closing: I just want to thank the Waldorf community for supporting us through COVID-19 and continuing to support us going into this school year. Only God knows what this year brings; and yet, God has also provided us an abundant community to work together as we navigate this uncertain future.

I pray that everyone reading this feels the support of the community here at Waldorf with them through the uncertainty of the future.

Sincerely,

Eric Adamcik, Campus Ministry Coordinator

Speaking of blessings: Waldorf has been so fortunate to meet in the Recital Hall once again for weekly Wednesday morning Chapel in person! professors like Dr. Paul Bartelt speak, blessing the community with research they are passionate about that challenges all of us to think about things differently.

With that in-person meeting, Chapel has had a greater quality of service with a variety of student groups leading, including Amnesty International and the Black Student Union, allowing students to bless and enrich the Waldorf community with their own passions and perspectives, including our Peer Ministers. We’ve also had This increase in quality and variety is reflected in the quantity of students, as our range of Chapel attendance has increased from 8-15 per service to 18-34, most of which have at least 20 attendees! This is promising, especially considering that we were hovering around 30 from January-March 2020 before the pandemic started.

As Director of Campus Ministry, I am grateful to report a fantastic 2020-2021 School Year, and healthy involvement going into 20212022! I am so proud of this campus, especially those involved in Campus Ministry, for stepping up to lead in this profoundly strange and difficult time to do ministry. I can already see how much that hard work is paying off. Everyone I’ve interacted with knows that getting to meet in person with masks is a privilege and not a right, and for that adjustment and flexible attitude among students and staff, I am infinitely grateful. & Education, with students from Iowa, Texas, California, Turkmenistan, and Nepal. These Peer Ministers reflected the abundant gifts and diversity present in the Waldorf community, and those who are still here will continue to be blessings to the community with a new team we will hire in Fall 2021.

If you know of a student who would be a good fit for Campus Ministry, feel free to reach out to them and ask them to contact me directly.

We were especially grateful to see Peer Minister Anuja KC get to share her story as a graduating senior, having been a Peer Minister since her freshman year! She has seen so much change in Campus Ministry, and yet chose to continue with us to build something new and wonderful. We miss her at Waldorf, and are infinitely grateful she was here, and look forward to seeing her do amazing things to bless this world!

This continuation of strong student involvement allowed us enough resources to have six Peer Ministers on staff in Spring 2021! For those who are uninitiated: Peer Ministry is a wonderful program which allows students to work with Campus Ministry on a semesterly basis, pursuing their passions within ministry while also helping Campus Ministry out with anything we need and serving the larger Waldorf campus. For Spring 2021, we were blessed to hire new Peer Ministers in the areas of Outreach; Arts; and Worship Programming