Grace Partners with
Morningside Campus Ministry -With the help of Campus Chaplain, Pastor Andy Nelson, the students have formed their own student-led ministry called Christ Connections -There are Bible studies put on by Christ Connections leaders and by other students that take place on various days during the week to help students connect with each other and grow in their faith -During Lent, their weekly lunch meetings were discussing chapters that they read ahead of time from, The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis. -They participate in service nights where they can go out in the community and help in a variety of different areas and ways -In March they had a Passover meal together during Holy Week -Once a week there is a night called Vespers where the students are welcomed to come worship, meditate on scripture, talk about what is going on in the world today and how it can impact their spiritual growth and journey while in college and after -Hold worship together once a month -Have nights of fellowship together -In March they held a movie night where they watched Evan Almighty |
Pastor Andy Nelson
Chaplain Office: (712)-274-5148 Facebook Page: @mccampusministry nelsona@morningside.edu UPCOMING COLLEGE MINISTRY DATES
In April Monday, April 9th The students will have an opportunity to pack food backpacks at the Food Bank of Siouxland to help hungry kiddos have food to take home on weekends Worship at St. Dysmas Inside the Walls on April 19th or 20th. On the evening of either Thursday, April 19th or Friday, April 20th (TBD). Pastor Andy will be taking a group to worship with the men of St. Dysmas Lutheran Church inside the walls of Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, SD. The men of this congregation are all inmates of the prison, but each week they welcome visitors to come and worship with them. |
Urban Immersion Mission Trip to Minneapolis
During the students Spring Break Chaplain, Pastor Andy Nelson and Christian Education Director, Alaina Dick took a group of 7 students from Morningside College to the Urban Immersion Retreat Center in Minneapolis, MN. While there they served at four different locations.
While at Community Emergency Services they helped to organize food in their warehouse area where they have families come through and shop for the food they need while others helped to organize other rooms that held blankets and other necessities that people getting out
of prison may need to get back on their feet.
At Haven Housing: Ascension Place students were broken up into groups to help clean, paint, and beautify different rooms and stairways
in the building so that their residents would feel loved, cared for, and respected.
When at People Serving People the students and leaders were broken up into groups again to help beautify the building that the organization housed over ten floors of people in while they help them learn how to create a resume, give them interview appropriate clothes, and help the people learn how to get back up after whatever they had faced that led them to the organization for help.
At Second Harvest Heartland the students and leaders packed and sealed cereal bags that would get shipped out to the surrounding communities in each of the counties that they help. Within the two and a half hours at Second Harvest Heartland the group from Morningside with the help of others who were also serving that day, were able to pack 3,752 pounds of cereal.
During the students Spring Break Chaplain, Pastor Andy Nelson and Christian Education Director, Alaina Dick took a group of 7 students from Morningside College to the Urban Immersion Retreat Center in Minneapolis, MN. While there they served at four different locations.
While at Community Emergency Services they helped to organize food in their warehouse area where they have families come through and shop for the food they need while others helped to organize other rooms that held blankets and other necessities that people getting out
of prison may need to get back on their feet.
At Haven Housing: Ascension Place students were broken up into groups to help clean, paint, and beautify different rooms and stairways
in the building so that their residents would feel loved, cared for, and respected.
When at People Serving People the students and leaders were broken up into groups again to help beautify the building that the organization housed over ten floors of people in while they help them learn how to create a resume, give them interview appropriate clothes, and help the people learn how to get back up after whatever they had faced that led them to the organization for help.
At Second Harvest Heartland the students and leaders packed and sealed cereal bags that would get shipped out to the surrounding communities in each of the counties that they help. Within the two and a half hours at Second Harvest Heartland the group from Morningside with the help of others who were also serving that day, were able to pack 3,752 pounds of cereal.
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