{"id":12226,"date":"2020-10-06T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2020-10-06T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:59:53","slug":"seeing-the-light-campus-ministries-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/12226","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Light: Campus Ministries and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Mari Pizzini &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 has caused a lot of change to be made on Morningside College\u2019s campus, but Campus Ministries has found that the changes being made due to the virus haven\u2019t been all bad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMerely being polite doesn\u2019t cut it anymore,\u201d Andy Nelson, campus chaplain, said. \u201cThe changes we\u2019ve had to make have caused us to think seriously about hospitality and caring for people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campus Ministries Intern, Taylor Van Vliet, said, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot more consideration that goes into planning events, including social distancing and sharing materials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consideration of people\u2019s needs, even outside of the virus, has become a major part of event planning now. Nelson said that there haven\u2019t been significant programmatic changes, but the guidelines require a different type of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[The virus] prompted a type of thinking that may have always needed to be a part of Campus Ministries,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cOur \u2018All are Welcome\u2019 attitude sometimes didn\u2019t address accessibility and accommodations. We started asking, \u2018Are we able to serve people who can\u2019t get to our events?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Vliet said, \u201cA lot of our events are now virtual or have the option to be hybrid. We haven\u2019t had any major problems with virtual attendance, and there\u2019s even been some counts of higher attendance virtually.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to continue worship and other programs, and Soul Tending was a new event that was still able to start,\u201d Van Vliet finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson said, \u201cI\u2019m grateful to discover the ability to use technology to help other people. Ministry is not about being self-reliant but trusting others, and asking others for their expertise has created an area of growth for us.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campus Ministries is continuing to hold Soul Tending every Wednesday at 8pm, however, this week there will be a virtual homecoming worship service, Sharing the Light: Stories of Faith, Discovery, and Illumination from Morningside College, at 8:30pm via Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mari Pizzini &#8211; COVID-19 has caused a lot of change to be made on Morningside College\u2019s campus, but Campus Ministries has found that the changes being made due to the virus haven\u2019t been all bad.&nbsp; \u201cMerely being polite doesn\u2019t cut it anymore,\u201d Andy Nelson, campus chaplain, said. \u201cThe changes we\u2019ve had to make have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":12227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}