Campus Ministry KS

Campus Ministry in Kansas

updated 10/08/08

Vision Statement

The Kansas District will provide a ministry at each state/city college/university in Kansas through peer ministry training and computer technology and at least part-time presence of a Kansas campus missionary.

The Kansas District will also support the ministries of its congregations to community and private colleges/universities in their local communities.

Purpose

The Lutheran Campus Ministries at our Kansas colleges and universities provide a "church home away from home" for students from your congregation. It is the purpose of these campus ministries to help students grow in their Christian faith, to prepare them for leadership in the Church and to give them a sense of mission. Our Lutheran congregations in these campus settings invite students to receive Word and Sacrament ministry and also to enjoy Christian fellowship activities.

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Campus Missionaries

Rev. Alan Estby is based at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lawrence and coordinates campus ministry at KU and in Eastern Kansas.

Vicar King Crawford is based at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Manhattan and coordinates campus ministry at KSU.

Rev. Estby

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Campus Missionary East

Rev. Alan Estby

University of Kansas

Kansas State University

Rev. Alan Estby
Immanuel Lutheran Church
2104 Bob Billings Parkway
Lawrence, Kansas 66049-2722
785-843-0620
lsfku@ku.edu

Vicar King Crawford
St. Luke Lutheran Church
330 Sunset Ave.
Manhattan, KS 66502-3757
785-539-2604
kcrawf1014@aol.com

Emporia State University

Fort Hays State University

Shanna Eggers
Campus Box 05
Emporia, Kansas 66801
620-341-5097
seggers@emporia.edu

Rev. Kenton Rohrberg
Messiah Lutheran Church
2000 Main St.
Hays, Kansas 67601-2938
785-625-2057
krohrberg@ruraltel.net

Pittsburg State University

Washburn University

Rev. Ted Cook
Zion Lutheran Church
102 W Jackson
Pittsburg, Kansas 66762-5658
620-231-4267
zionpitt@sbcglobal.net

Rev. Clint Stark
St. John Lutheran Church
901 SW Fillmore St.
Topeka, Kansas 66606-1455
785-354-7132
tcstark@stjohnlcmstopeka.org

Haskell Indian Nations University

Wichita State University

Will & Patricia Main jjjjjjjjjjjjjjHaskell LIGHT House
137 Pawnee Ave.
Lawrence, Kansas 66046-4843
785-841-4809

Susan Crane
Melissa Duncan
University Lutheran Center
3815 E 17th St. N
Wichita, Kansas 67208-2039
316-684-5224
wsulc@sbcglobal.net

lighthouse@haskelllight.org

will_patricia@sbcglobal.net

melissa@ulcwichita.com

www.ulcwichita.com

Click on for a contact listing of all Kansas colleges and universities.

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LCMS Campus Ministry

General information about Campus Missions, LCMS website: http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=1000

LCMS Campus Ministry home page: http://www.lcmscampus.org/

Lutheran Campus Mission Association website: http://www.lcma.info

Lutheran Student Fellowship (LSF) website: http://www.lcmscampus.org/lsf/

International Student Ministry website: www.isminc.org

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Campus-Ministry Group Wants to Link Colleges, Congregations

http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=6078

Note to outreach-minded congregations: If you're near a college or university campus, a huge mission field is right in your own back yard.

That's the message of the Lutheran Campus Mission Association (LCMA), a newly formed LCMS mission society that has signed a "partnership agreement" with LCMS World Mission to promote campus ministry on its behalf.

At present, the Synod includes some 720 "campus ministries" that serve about a quarter of the country's 3,700 colleges and universities, according to Rev. Greg Fairow, LCMA's vice president. But those ministries run the gamut -- from those with full-time campus pastors, to those that consist of a nearby congregation that opens its doors to students but has little, if any, on-campus contact.

"We want to emphasize partnerships," said Fairow, between congregations and campuses, and between similar campuses and similar congregations, so that they can learn from one another. Part of the LCMA's responsibility will be to "put similar ministries in touch with each other," Fairow said.

More and more responsibility for campus ministry is falling on the shoulders of nearby congregations, echoed Rev. Dave Dressel, campus pastor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, and LCMA president. But that outreach need not be costly, he said. It can be something as simple as bringing minivans to campus to drive students to Sunday worship, donating used furniture to students, or providing a free meal on a monthly basis.

Campus-ministry congregations simply need to "meet the needs of students where they are," Dressel said.

Some 75 percent of students who worship in high school "stop when they get to college," noted Fairow, who serves as a campus pastor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. So, campuses are "huge mission fields, even in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod," he said.

At the same time, the college years are one of those "transitional" periods in life when young people -- moving from dependence to independence -- may be "more open" to Christianity.

"They're making decisions about who they are going to be and whether or not their faith is going to impact the rest of their lives," said Dressel.

That's why congregations can't just wait for students to show up on their doorsteps -- rather, they need to go to the students.

Effective campus ministry, Dressel said, "is an active, eager, excited movement to grow people in faith on college and university campuses."

"We are participating fully in the spirit and intent of what Ablaze! is doing," said Fairow. "And we see the work of missions in college and university communities as a key part of that."

For more information about campus ministries, contact Dave Dressel at dresseld@msu.edu or LCMA at campusmission@yahoo.com. -- Posted Oct. 4, 2004

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