UniLu is a Campus Ministry Congregation of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
What does this mean?
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
What does this mean?
Campus Ministry isn't something we do - it's something we are. (As such, it fits into the Love Each Other and the Love Our Neighbor Quadrants. But, since people come to this website looking for Campus Ministry information, we call it out on its own page here.)
UniLu has a mission and an ethos to be a community for students, faculty, and staff of the various colleges and universities around us. We were founded as a Lutheran Campus Ministry to the Stanford University community but, given our proximity not only to Stanford but to 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 like to know about Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry at Stanford.
UniLu has a mission and an ethos to be a community for students, faculty, and staff of the various colleges and universities around us. We were founded as a Lutheran Campus Ministry to the Stanford University community but, given our proximity not only to Stanford but to 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 like to know about Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry at Stanford.