On Sept. 14 Campus Conversations will be starting up around campus for Tuesday Chapel.
This year the freshmen are being offered a special conversation in Moody Coliseum in junction with their new core curriculum.
“This Campus Conversation was made to accommodate the new Cornerstone class.” Casey McCollum, director of Leadership Camps, said. “We strongly recommend that all fresman participate in it as well as their Monday, Wednesday, Friday class.
McCollum is spearheading the conversation alongside Director of Student Ministries Jen Rogers.
There are seven conversations scheduled in the freshman series. They will run Sept. 14 and 28, Oct. 5, 19, and 26 and Nov. 2 and 9.
Freshman will be looking over christian author Henri Nouwen’s article, “Moving from Solitude to Community to Ministry.” Each of the three topics discussed in the article will be broken down and discussed individually as well as their relationships to each other.
This type of freshman-only Chapel is one of the first of it’s kind being offered at ACU, and the leaders of Chapel and Cornerstone have high expectations for it.
“Hopefully this Chapel will continue from year to year, and we’ll probably continue to use Nouwen as the curriculum.” McCollum said.
Freshmen are not required to attend the conversation, but instructors strongly hope they do, as it directly pertains to the material discussed in their class.
This Campus Conversation is open only to freshmen. Except for peer leaders in the Cornerstone classes, sophomores and upperclassman will have to attend another Chapel program on Tuesdays. A list of alternative Campus Conversations is available in the Chapel Office, but is not presently online.
“The webpage is not up right now, but by the end of the week students will be able to log onto myACU, click on the spirtual tab and then follow the Campus Conversations link,” said Emily Hood, a student worker in the Chapel Office. “That will take you to the page on the ACU website.”
Freshmen will be told more about the Campus Conversation in their Cornerstone classes. Upperclassmen should continue to check their student emails for more information on chapels they may attend.
