Protestant

Events

The Protestant Community provides regular weekly worship service, bible studies, times of prayer, and other programming to enrich the spiritual life of students and expand intellectual endeavors beyond the classroom. Our programs are open to the Wesleyan and Middletown communities.

ECUMENICAL WORSHIP (aka Community Dinner)
Sundays
5:00 - 6:30pm
Allbritton 311

This is a time where students gather together with the Protestant Chaplain for Scripture, prayer, and food.  The Sunday community dinner is a safe, sacred place to grow in faith and fellowship with others, and the participants represent a wide diversity of Christian theology, beliefs, and practices. We extend an invitation to students, faculty, administration, staff and those in the Middletown community to join us! The weekly Sunday gathering time is at 5pm and is held when classes are in session. For more information or if you are interested in participating in worship leadership, please contact Rev. Tracy Mehr-Muska, the Protestant Chaplain, at tmehrmuska@yahoo.com.

 

Upcoming Special Services and Events

Not Afraid of Darwin or Christ:  Webinar with Princeton Theological Seminary 
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Judd Hall (room 116) at 7:00pm
“Can science and religion coexist? Should Christians be afraid of Darwin or scientists afraid of Christ? We will tackle these and other provocative questions in a webinar with two dynamic professors who are currently fellows at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.” 
More information can be found at : http://ptsem.edu/notafraid/

Past Events

Special Services/Events Held Annually

  • Welcome reception for new students during Freshman Orientation
  • Homecoming and Family Weekend Ecumenical Worship Service
  • Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols
  • Good Friday Service of Scripture and Meditation  
  • Easter Sunday Resurrection Service and Ecumenical Reception
  • Reception for prospective students during WesFest

Celebrating Multiculturalism

  • Celebration of Gospel, 2013
  • Caribbean Worship: Encounter God’s Presence, 2011
  • Celebrating the Black Church, 2008
  • Emerging Voices, 2009
  • Gospel Extravaganza, 2009, 2010 

Previous Lectures/Events

  • Celebrating 180 Years of Protestant Religious Life at Wesleyan, 2011
  • The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of What Jesus Believed And How It Was Corrupted, 2008:  Obery Hendricks Jr., is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the New York Theological Seminary and an Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He has served as a professor at Drew University and as visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary.
  • True For You… But Not For Me: Is There Wisdom in Relativism?

Service Projects

  • Rocky Hill Veteran's Home visit for Veteran's Day, 2012
  • March For Change Rally in Hartford, 2013
  • First Baptist Church Soup on Sunday, 2009-2010
  • Haiti Relief, 2009-2010
  • Gulf Coast Service Spring Break Trip, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Thanksgiving Feeding Families, American Red Cross Middlesex Central Connecticut Chapter, 2010-11
  • Ugandan Orphanage, 2010
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, 2011:  David Campbell (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002) is the John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science, as well as a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives.