Student Staff
Pastoral Assistants (PAs)
Meet the 2008-09 campus ministries staff of pastors, pastoral assistants, and ministry assistants
Pastoral assistants serve the EMU campus community in a variety of roles. Most PAs support and mentor the ministry assistants from a particular residence hall, meeting regularly in ministry support groups (MSGs).
Other responsibilities include planning and leading chapel services and facilitating gatherings that nurture spiritual life on campus by encouraging reflection, conversations, and dialogue along with planning Spiritual Life Week each semester.
PAs are students who exhibit maturity of Christian faith, have experience in peer ministry, might have interest in ministry as a vocation or are discerning a sense of call to ministry. PAs meet regularly with the campus pastors for mentoring.
2008-09 PAs:
- Briana Gascho, Daniel Miller, Darrel Miller, Emily Sims, Grace Schrock-Hurst, Rachael Clemmer, Ruth-Ellen Dandurand and Sabrina Leaman.
- Kara Weaver serves as campus ministries program assistant.
If interested in serving as a PA, return the completed PA application form to campus ministries in the University Commons.
Ministry Assistants (MAs)
Ministry assistants are students who have been called and equipped to serve as a ministry presence on their residence hall floors. They practice and reflect on peer ministries through taking a practicum course in small group ministries, ministry support groups, and retreats. The ministry of MAs includes leading weekly times of Bible study, sharing, and/or service, as well as relationship building, peer support and prayer. MA Updates are posted here.
2008-09 MAs:
- Elmwood: Elisa Troyer, Jon Lamb, Brianna Oelschlager, Leah Risser and Benaiah Wade
- Maplewood: Andrew Derstine, Paul Goliwas, Jessica Sarriot and Sara Beachy
- Norhtlawn: Wilson Roth, Yvonne Stauffer, Briana Eshleman, Courtney Walker, Bonnie Fletcher and Janelle Freed
- Roselawn: Daniel Martin, Taylor Stutzman
If interested in being an MA, return the completed MA application form to campus ministries in the University Commons.
Resource Library
Campus ministries provides a resource library for use by PAs and MAs for Bible studies, discussion groups and other occasions. The books, games, videos and supplies are catagorized and shelved according to subject and can be signed out from the Weaver Wellness Suite in University Commons.
Come visit, puruse the options and check out a few resources. (view available materials)
