Campus Ministries

When a student leaves for college, how can pastors, relatives, mentors and other United Methodists back home help them receive a warm welcome in their new surroundings?

Local churches now have a new tool to help students making the transition to college life: an online referral form that instantly forwards the student’s information to the appropriate campus ministry at a dozen colleges and universities around Arkansas.

Those making referrals will be asked to provide the student’s name, contact information, high school and the college where the student is enrolled in 2016, as well as their own email address and relationship to the student.

Southern Arkansas University
100 E. University MSC 9290
Magnolia, AR 71753

Contact:
Corey Read
corey.read@arumc.org

University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff
900 North University Drive
Pine Bluff, AR 71601

Contact:
Natasha Murray
natasha.murray@arumc.org

Resources for Campus Ministers

“The Awakened Life: An Eight-Week Guide to Student Well-Being” is an exciting resource to help our campus leaders address issues of student well-being. This simple but profound guide leads students through mindfulness practices proven to help students build resiliency and foster mental, emotional and spiritual health. The program’s flexibility makes it effective within a campus ministry, university chaplain community or a first-year experience.

This training prepares campus leaders to use this program with their students. All session leaders are encouraged to attend one Awakened Life training retreat.

These training retreats will focus on teaching campus ministers, chaplains and other interested faculty and school administrators the primary components of the guide and equipping them to address these issues with their students.

To register for the Fall 2020 session (All Tuesdays, Sept. 15 – October 13 (Sept. 15, Sept. 22, Sept. 29, Oct. 6, Oct. 13), 4:30-6:00 PM (CST), click here.