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St. Paul
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(Evansdale)

Confessional ♦ Orthodox ♦ Liturgical

και μη συσχηματζεσθε τω αιωνι τουτω,αλλα μεταμορφουσθε τη ανακαινωσει του νοος
εις το δοκιμαζειν υμας τι το θελημα τομ θεου, το αγαθον και ευαρεστον και τελειον.
( translation )

Headline News (5/30/2013)

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Compline for Synod Assembly

Compline will be held Friday, May 31, 10:00 PM, at the Lutheran Campus Chapel, as a special offering in connection with the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod Assembly. The compline is open to all though a special invitation is being given to the members of the synod assembly to join in.

If you are one of our regulars, your help would be appreciated. Many of the synod assembly attendees are not familiar with compline. Your participation and hospitality would assist our guests. A few ushers would also be a good idea. Please let Riegel know if you can help out.

New Student Orientation

In just one week, campus will be swarming with incoming students, relatives, and friends receiving orientation for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Lutheran Campus Ministry will be staffing an information booth at the Student Organization Fair held 2:00-4:00 every orientation day in the Vandalia Lounge in the Mountainlair. If you are visiting campus, come and see us. If you are already a Lutheran Campus Ministry participant, you are invited to help staff the information booth one or more afternoons. Contact Riegel to get scheduled.

Irregular Summer Worship at the Chapel

The Lutheran Campus Chapel held its last regular worship service for the academic year Friday night, May 10: a surprisingly well-attended compline---most years, pretty much everyone is gone by then. Normally, there would be no regularly scheduled service until the new academic year begins (this year: Sunday mass, 18 August 2013, 7:00 PM). While nothing is scheduled regularly for this summer, we have already and will continue to hold irregularly scheduled worship. E.g., compline has been prayed twice already since exams ended and, in addition to the synod assembly compline (supra), will be prayed this Thursday, 9:45 PM.

If you would like to be notified about summer worship at the chapel (and other activities in the educational and social dimensions of the ministry), the most reliable method is subscription to our text messaging service (provided through Twitter). It is not necessary to have a Twitter account. All you have to do is text "FOLLOW LCMWVU" to 40404. You can unsubscribe at any time.

We will post worship updates on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LCMWVU). Worship updates will also be posted on this homepage but less reliably--just being honest.

Staying informed...

If you would like to know about special events like this, follow us on Facebook, subscribe to our text messaging service (text "follow LCMWVU" to 40404), or subscribe to The LutheranMountaineer eNews.

Paintball with Pitt...Next Year

The Lutheran Campus Ministry at WVU wishes to express its gratitude to Pr. Brian Bennett of the Lutheran Campus Ministry of Great Pittsburgh for all his work in arranging the paintball reservation at Three Rivers Paintball Park. Pr. Bennett suggested, a several weeks back, that a joint outing of the WVU and the Pitt/CMU/Carlow students would be a great deal of fun. Sadly, his students left him fly solo...against 14 from WVU. We had a wonderful time running around the woods on April 6. Several paintball first-timers joined in the festivities, and, despite some initial trepidation on the part of some, all had a rollicking good time. The WVU contingent was a mix of current students, alumni, members of St. Paul, and friends. The universal opinion: this must be done again. So, the Lutheran Campus Ministry at WVU hereby challenges the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Pitt etc. to come out from hiding and face us on the field of battle on Saturday, 7 September 2013.

Two Things We Didn't Want To Lose

There is already a lot of stuff on this page. In an effort to clean it up a little, we removed several stories, but there are two we don't want to lose quite yet. Click here to read about our rather unusual Harlem Shake video and about the memorial chalice that was put into service this past Lent.

Annual Letter 2012 On-Line

Want to know what we've been up to. Read out newsletter. You can download your copy by clicking here. If you would like a hard copy, contact us. A separate annual fund raising letter (the "Beseechment for Benevolent Benefaction") is also available; download it by clicking here.

Open House for Synod Assembly

A few years ago, we help a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Chapel renovations. Since then, the nations has experienced a major economic collapse and the ELCA has struggled with controversy. The combination delayed the start of renovations, but we are now making progress. To date, new high efficiency furnaces, air conditioning, and commercial dehumidifier have been installed in the chapel, the driveway has been repaired, and partial installation of an office suite has been completed. At the same time, major structural work has been on-going in the Lutherhaus. Below, you can read about other projects that are scheduled for the summer.

We invite you to stop by and see the work in progress. The Lutheran Campus Chapel and Lutherhaus will be open to touring Saturday, June 1, for two hours following the adjournment of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod Assembly.

Summer Chapel Renovations

The next phase of the Chapel renovations commences this summer. The kitchen and restrooms will be demolished and rebuilt. New features will include showers in each restroom, significantly increased cabinet space, and the addition of some major appliances (dishwasher, double convection oven, and induction stove top). The renovations are scheduled to be completed before the start of the new academic year. The improvements in the kitchen will help reduce visible clutter and provide resources that make large meals (e.g., the Wurst Dinner on Campus) much easier to execute. The conversion of the restrooms into bathrooms will allow us to host visiting groups (e.g., church youth groups and service teams). If you would like to visit and see the work in progress, please contact us.

You can support the renovations of the Chapel (particularly the kitchen and rest rooms) by donating or volunteering your labor. Again, contact us to discuss the possibilities.

Twitter

Do you want to receive our tweets by text message? You don't even need a twitter account. Just send, as a text message, "follow LCMWVU" to 40404. You'll get our tweets, which are few, far between, and always about activities and other chapel news.

Event specific tweets. We've also set up a separate twitter account just to help communicate for specific events. LCMWVU2 is something that participants of specific events can follow to get last minute updates and reminders. That way, followers of the regular twitter feed don't have to be annoyed by event tweets which they are not attending. This should really help with road trips and the like.

HSC Tweets: If you are on the HSC campus, you can get tweets about LCMWVU stuff happening there. text "follow LCMWVUHSC" to 40404.

Twitter user? Feel free to follow us on Twitter. Our account is "LCMWVU".

Luther House Repairs

The Luther House is undergoing a major structural repairs. Walls and ceilings are being demoed and rebuilt, floors jacked back up, windows replaced, and exterior drainage installed. This has been a major undertaking---and we are not quite finished. If you would like to volunteer some time as a painter, drywaller, framer, floorer, or roustabout, please let us know.

A little background: We discovered, in the process of a minor wall repair, that load bearing elements had been damaged in an earlier renovation of the bathrooms (we think in the '40s or '50s). Experienced workers are always a great help in such a situation, but even the inexperienced can help. There is plenty of hauling, holding, lifting, etc., and you might just learn some new skills in the process.

You can help us cover the expense of these major structural repairs by donating on-line (we accept major credit cards). Just click the button at right and follow the somewhat intuitive instructions---PayPal account not required.

Give a Gift to the LCM@WVU ... On-Line!

We accept donations on-line. All you need is a credit card. We're using PayPal, but you don't need a PayPal account to make an on-line donation. Click on the donate button (above) and support the work. Yes, we take four major credit cards!

Social Media & Networking

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Follow Us on Twitter

We resisted for a long time, then, after a demonstration of the ease with which this instrument can be used, we decided to give it a shot. We will not be incessantly tweeting. Our purpose will be to use Twitter for breaking news and announcements. So, you won't be getting updates on what we had for dinner or how great the movie was. It's as easy as texting "FOLLOW LCMWVU" to 40404. See the most recent posts.

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LutheranMountaineer eNews -- Campus Edition: Click to subscribe (or just to learn more) -- primarily for students, faculty, and staff: this list will have the most frequent news about events and last minute changes.

LutheranMountaineer eNewsletter: Click to subscribe (or just to learn more) -- for anyone who loves the campus ministry and wants to know what's going on. This list will publish less frequently and not focus on day-to-day operations.

Lutheran Monastery Reaches Out to Collegians &Seminarians

St. Augustine's House has issued a special invitation to collegians and seminarians to visit.

Spend a day, a week, a month at the only Lutheran monastery in America. The Congregation of the Servants of Christ, living at St. Augustine's House in Oxford, Michigan, invites you for a time (whether long or short) of formation in the life of prayer. Please make arrangements for dates and accommodations at StAugHouse@aol.com or 248-628-5155.

For more information about St. Augustine's House, visit http://www.StAugustinesHouse.org or speak with Chap. Riegel.

Chaplain Serves on Monastic Council

Chap. Riegel was elected by the chapter of the Congregation of the Servants of Christ, the Lutheran Benedictine body in the Western Hemisphere, to serve on the congregation's council. Riegel served on the council prior to the birth of his second daughter thirteen years ago. In fulfillment of his obligations, Riegel will be making a few trips each year to St. Augustine's House, a Lutheran Benedictine priory. There may be room on some of those trips for co-pilot. If you are interested in accompanying Riegel, let him know.

There and Back Again: How Do I Get to the Chapel? How Do I Get Home?

Monday through Saturday, the PRT and several buses serve the campus and surrounding community. One concern, however, is getting home as these services shut down. If you can get to the Chapel for a planned worship service or other activity, we can see that you get home.

WVU Bus

Sunday mass transit is limited to the Sunday Shopping Shuttle (click for map & schedule). This shuttle runs right past the Chapel with a 6:41 p.m. stop at the Mountainlair (only 1½ blocks from the Chapel)...perfect for making 7:00 p.m. mass. Unfortunately, West Run, The District, etc., are not on the route. Let us know that you would like a ride, and we'll try to arrange a carpool in your area--try to give us a little lead time to work on this. Again, if you make it to the Chapel, we'll get you home.

Chapel Parking is used by the Luther House residents, and they need unfettered access. Please don't block the entrance (or park in the upper end of the driveway) or use the chapel as a place to leave your car while you go to the library or class. Remember that, in the evenings, the university lots (#1 across from the chapel and those flanking Stansbury) are not patrolled. Also, street parking is free on Sundays.

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