2025
Take a breath and rest on the Fall Retreat!
While it might be in the 80s on campus this week, our community is excitedly looking forward to one of the best parts of our year together: the Fall Retreat! Don’t miss out on this restorative opportunity to get off campus, explore creation, connect with God, and get to know new friends!
2025
Interested in an LCM Bible Study?
God created us for connection and belonging, and to find these in God certainly, but we’re also made to find connection and belonging amongst each other. Bible Studies offer a chance to connect meaningfully in a smaller group, to get to know good and interesting people, to pray together, and to explore and wrestle with scripture with other students!
2025
Welcome Class of 2029!
Welcome to UMN Twin Cities! I’m sure each and every one of you is experiencing a variety of emotions—excitement, anxiety, first-day jitters, loneliness—the list goes on and on. Or perhaps you don’t know how to describe how you’re feeling and it’s just a general sense of being completely overwhelmed. That was definitely how I felt, and however you’re feeling is completely okay. I hope that after reading this letter, you’ll have confidence in yourself to navigate these emotions, take things one day at a time, believe that things will get easier, and know how to find a supportive community to help you on campus these first couple days, weeks, and months.
2024
Welcome Class of 2028!
Welcome to the University of Minnesota! Just a year ago, I was in your place, both incredibly
excited and nervous to start my freshman year.
I came into my first year with a lot of questions about my faith and the role it played in my life.
During the summer before I started my first semester, I tried to shove those questions into the
back of my mind in favor of the more pressing concerns I had going into the year. As a new out-
of-state student who had taken a gap year, I worried a lot about finding my place on a campus
where I knew no one, and that felt larger than I had imagined it.
2024
Northern Ireland – Spring Break – Reflections
After many hours of travel, 16 LCMers, one staff member, and one pastor arrived at Dublin Airport only to encounter our first challenge of the trip: finding our bus driver. Luckily, after only a few minutes and frantic phone calls we located Nigel, a cheery yet taciturn local who ended up driving us around for the week and teaching us Irish sayings.
2024
Sydnie’s Story of Belonging
I have never been someone who envisions myself as a part of something. I contribute to things. I participate when required. I have friends. I have family. I’ve been on teams. I’ve just never really felt like I was more than a solitary unit. I am simply more comfortable being alone than relying on other people. I can’t remember the time in my life when this started, but I can remember the time when it ended.
2024
Shelby’s Story of Hope
I am a senior studying Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. After undergrad, I am planning on going into environmental law and policy. I have been involved with LCM for 4 years. Almost all my classes are centered on climate change in some way. I learn about the many issues the world is facing and will hopefully help solve one day, but also, it can be draining as I am constantly bombarded with the idea that: 1) there are many different facets to climate change and 2) there is too much to overcome, and we can’t fix it.
It can be easy to fall into the pit of despair of life, with the constant bombardment of information that we have readily accessible — we as humans were not meant to experience this much pain in a single day. We become accustomed to the hard times, to the death, to the destruction of others and the planet. We say it’s just another day in the life and keep on moving. I find this to be exhausting. And it would crush me if I let it.
2023
Exploring God’s Call(s) in Your Life
Vocation is an English word that grows from the Latin root, vocare, which means “to call.” As people of God, we are called by the one who names us beloved, before or beyond anything we do or don’t do. It is that grounding in unconditional grace, mercy, and love that sets us free to live a life of love, delight, and compassion. While the influence of our culture and economy might tell us that we have to find just the right job, or social circle, or partner in order to find that deep well of meaning and purpose, the Christian story is a different one. We rest in the love of God, and are called out of the deep well of God’s unconditional love to share that love with the world. That is our starting point.
2023
Be Community Together
As humans, we are made to be in relationship with one another, and in relationship with God. The Bible tells us that we are “The Body of Christ,” in this world, mysteriously bound together with one another, sharing in both the joy and sorrow that each member feels.
We need people and actual communities that can remind us of our belovedness in the eyes of God. We need people who will honor who we are, and who we are becoming. We need communities that recognize that mistakes happen when people take risks and try new things, and are willing to forgive and continue living together.