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Chapel changes coming this fall
Valerie Valle, Online Editor
Issue date: 8/27/07 Section: News
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Faculty and students will notice a change in Chapel within the next few weeks that will leave Moody Coliseum empty at least one day during the week.
Dr. Wayne Barnard, university dean of spiritual formation and assistant to professor of family sciences, said based on feedback through e-mails and Chapel surveys, students want variety, small groups, honest engagement with faculty and relevancy
to their lives today. All feedback taken into consideration has resulted in changes for Chapel this fall.
Chapel on Tuesday will be referred to as Campus Conversations. Campus Conversations is made up of eight different groups facilitated by faculty members who will meet across campus with students to discuss a variety of topics including poverty, financial
responsibility and faiths around the world.
Dr. Royce Money, president of the university, said Christians should discuss these issues in an attempt to apply what we claim to be.
The largest group, consisting of a maximum 1,200 students, will gather in Moody Coliseum to talk about racial healing and reconciliation.
The idea of Campus Conversations is to create an environment where students can discuss issues and current events while helping to form community with one another.
In the coming weeks, students will be able to sign up for the small group of their choice. Students will spend four weeks with their small group before they can choose to sign up for a different one. After the students' four-week period with the small group, they will have two more opportunities. These will also span four weeks.
Students must attend the small group they sign up for, or they will not receive Chapel credit.
Chapel on Thursdays will still consist of small groups which, according to the ACU Chapel Web site will "encourage
spiritual formation among organizations, departments and groups", but now it will be referred to as Connection Groups. However, there will not be a small group that meets in Moody Coliseum on this day as it has been done in previous years.
Chapel on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will still continue to meet in Moody Coliseum. Mondays will still be a time where the ACU community re-connects after a weekend through announcements and a theme speaker. Wednesdays will vary from week to week, with such things as departmental
Chapel or reflective time. Fridays will continue to be Praise Day.
"We're not trying to make Chapel different for difference
sake. We want students to have options and choices," Barnard said.
E-mail Valle at: vmv04a@acu.edu
Dr. Wayne Barnard, university dean of spiritual formation and assistant to professor of family sciences, said based on feedback through e-mails and Chapel surveys, students want variety, small groups, honest engagement with faculty and relevancy
to their lives today. All feedback taken into consideration has resulted in changes for Chapel this fall.
Chapel on Tuesday will be referred to as Campus Conversations. Campus Conversations is made up of eight different groups facilitated by faculty members who will meet across campus with students to discuss a variety of topics including poverty, financial
responsibility and faiths around the world.
Dr. Royce Money, president of the university, said Christians should discuss these issues in an attempt to apply what we claim to be.
The largest group, consisting of a maximum 1,200 students, will gather in Moody Coliseum to talk about racial healing and reconciliation.
The idea of Campus Conversations is to create an environment where students can discuss issues and current events while helping to form community with one another.
In the coming weeks, students will be able to sign up for the small group of their choice. Students will spend four weeks with their small group before they can choose to sign up for a different one. After the students' four-week period with the small group, they will have two more opportunities. These will also span four weeks.
Students must attend the small group they sign up for, or they will not receive Chapel credit.
Chapel on Thursdays will still consist of small groups which, according to the ACU Chapel Web site will "encourage
spiritual formation among organizations, departments and groups", but now it will be referred to as Connection Groups. However, there will not be a small group that meets in Moody Coliseum on this day as it has been done in previous years.
Chapel on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will still continue to meet in Moody Coliseum. Mondays will still be a time where the ACU community re-connects after a weekend through announcements and a theme speaker. Wednesdays will vary from week to week, with such things as departmental
Chapel or reflective time. Fridays will continue to be Praise Day.
"We're not trying to make Chapel different for difference
sake. We want students to have options and choices," Barnard said.
E-mail Valle at: vmv04a@acu.edu
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