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.

Upcoming Events

VERITAS FORUM 2012

True For You… But Not For Me: Is There Wisdom in Relativism?
Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 7PM
Exley Science Center Tishler Hall

Reception immediately following.

 

Sunday, February  5, 2012
Sunday Worship Resumes Spring 2012
2PM
Memorial Chapel

 

Sunday, December  11, 2011
Lessons and Carols: A Christmas Celebration and Reception
2PM
Memorial Chapel

Reception immediately following in Zelnick Pavilion.

 

Sunday, November 20, 2011
Interfaith Thanksgiving Worship and Reception with Middletown Interfaith Association
4PM
Memorial Chapel

Reception immediately following in Zelnick Pavilion.

 

HOMECOMING/FAMILY WEEKEND

Saturday, November 5, 2011
Wesleyan Christian Fellowship Alumni Open House and Reception
4pm-6pm
Lighthouse (Christian Program House)
230 Washington Street

Alums are invited to join Protestant students for a special reception and a tour of Lighthouse.

Sunday, November 6, 2011
Homecoming/Family Weekend Protestant Worship
11am
Fayerweather, Beckham Hall

Alumni, parents, students, and families, join Wesleyan’s Protestant community for Sunday Worship.
All are welcome.

 

Regularly Scheduled Events

All-Campus Contemporary Worship
Sundays
2:00pm
Memorial Chapel

All-Campus Contemporary Worship is a student-led interdenominational worship service presided by the Protestant Chaplain where undergraduate and graduate students gather together in Memorial Chapel for the celebration of word, prayer and music (hymns, praise songs, and contemporary gospel). The sacrament of communion is celebrated the first Sunday of the month. The Sunday worship is a safe sacred place to experience an authentic transformational encounter with God. We extend an invitation to students, faculty, administration, staff and those in the Middletown community to join us! The weekly Sunday service is at 2pm and follows the academic calendar. For more information, contact Rev. Joan Cooper Burnett, Protestant University Chaplain at jburnett@wesleyan.edu.

 

Funding 101: How to Receive Funds from the SBC
October 13, 2011
4:30pm-5:30pm
Usdan 136

Lisa Hendrix, WSA Office Coordinator, and Pastor Joan will be facilitating a workshop to support student groups in understanding the funding process for SBC and requesting funds form departments and other contributors. As Protestant student groups begin this academic year, it is a good time to understand how to raise funds. Treasurers and other group leaders will find this a valuable workshop to attend. Electronic budget forms and copies of funding proposals will be provided for attendees.

 

Past Events

Black History Month

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

Campus and Community Churches in Partnership

  • Wellpring Campus Alpha Course, 2011
  • Wesleyan Day at Cross Street AME Zion Church, 2010

Celebrating 180 Years of Protestant Religious Life at Wesleyan, 2011

Gospel Extravaganza, 2009 & 2010

Homecoming/Family Weekend All-Campus Sunday Worship (annually)

Lectures

  • 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.

  •   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.

New Student Orientation Gospel Praise & Worship, 2009 & 2010

Service Projects

  • First Baptist Church Soup on Sunday, 2009-2010
  • Haiti Relief, 2009-2010
  • Katrina Relief Urban Plunge/Gulf Coast Service Spring Break Trip, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Thanksgiving Feeding Families, American Red Cross Middlesex Central Connecticut Chapter, 2010-11
  • Ugandan Orphanage, 2010

WesFest Meet and Greet (annually)