Chapel Program

The chapel program encourages students to intertwine their spiritual growth with their academic, intellectual, and emotional growth:

• Creates spaces for students to more deeply explore their own faith traditions as well as to learn from the faith traditions of others.
  
  
• Calls students to stop and ask questions of meaning and value, to step back and look more fully at their lives.
  
  
• Helps students take time out from the busy-ness of their lives to tell stories and get to know each other, building communities of small groups supporting each other.
  
  
• Provides pastoral support and insight. All members of the College community are welcome to arrange an individual conversation about any spiritual or moral concern with the Chaplain.
  
  
• Offers retreat opportunities at key times in college life (decision-making skills for students declaring majors, re-entry retreat for students back from study abroad, mid-term afternoon in the woods, etc.)
  
  
• Offers leadership opportunities for students. Student Chaplains and Chapel Interns help plan and work on various chapel events.
  
  
• Offers opportunities for social activism.
  
  
• Maintains collegial relations with several churches and other religious communities in Kalamazoo.