UniLu is a Campus Ministry Congregation of the ELCA.
What does this mean?
Campus Ministry isn't something we do - it's something we are and fits into our Love Each Other and Love Our Neighbor Quadrants. Since many of you come to us looking for Campus Ministry information, here we are:
We were founded as a Lutheran Campus Ministry to the Stanford University community though, given our proximity not only to Stanford University but as well as Palo Alto University, Menlo College, Foothill College, De Anza College, and Cañada College, we see ourselves broadly as a Campus Ministry Congregation for all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in this area. UniLu has Sunday School, nursery care, Adult Forum, and intergenerational worship and service activities. This means, students find surrogate parents, grandparents, siblings, and children, and find a non-evaluative place to be themselves, to learn, to worship, to socialize, and to work for justice with other members of the community. This home-away-from-home-away-from-home is a place for encountering other students, professors, alumni, neighbors, and friends, all in a setting that is not the classroom.
The leadership of the congregation is often in the hands of students. Our Church Council is made up of many university-affiliated folks (three of the last six presidents of the congregation have been students), our Fireside Room is available as a student lounge, students take an active role in worship leadership, and several of our programs have students in leadership roles.
UniLu is one of hundreds of Lutheran Campus Ministry sites across the US affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, giving us a relationship to several Lutheran Campus Ministries in California and across the country.
You also might be interested in our Young Adults section.
We were founded as a Lutheran Campus Ministry to the Stanford University community though, given our proximity not only to Stanford University but as well as Palo Alto University, Menlo College, Foothill College, De Anza College, and Cañada College, we see ourselves broadly as a Campus Ministry Congregation for all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in this area. UniLu has Sunday School, nursery care, Adult Forum, and intergenerational worship and service activities. This means, students find surrogate parents, grandparents, siblings, and children, and find a non-evaluative place to be themselves, to learn, to worship, to socialize, and to work for justice with other members of the community. This home-away-from-home-away-from-home is a place for encountering other students, professors, alumni, neighbors, and friends, all in a setting that is not the classroom.
The leadership of the congregation is often in the hands of students. Our Church Council is made up of many university-affiliated folks (three of the last six presidents of the congregation have been students), our Fireside Room is available as a student lounge, students take an active role in worship leadership, and several of our programs have students in leadership roles.
UniLu is one of hundreds of Lutheran Campus Ministry sites across the US affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, giving us a relationship to several Lutheran Campus Ministries in California and across the country.
You also might be interested in our Young Adults section.