by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | campus minister, coronavirus, Current Events, Lent, Lenten Season, love, Love everyone, Missions, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Sprituality, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK, Wilderness
Welcome to the wilderness. It’s fitting that we are in the season of Lent, walking with Jesus through unknown territory. No one knows what to do here, we are all anxious, uncertain, and fearful. And yet, when I think about this time, I am reminded of an article I read...
by admin | May 16, 2018 | All Are Welcome, Coffee, Current Events, Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center, garden, giving, Hospitality, LGBTQ, love, Millennials, Missions, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), safe space, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UPerk, UPerk Coffee, UTK, Vienna Coffee Co., YAV, Young Adult Volunteer, Young Adult Volunteer Program
At UKirk UTK, we believe that every person, without qualification, should have the opportunity for God’s amazing love to be made known to them. We believe what God intends for the world is a reality in which people recognize God’s image in the other and value...
by admin | Jan 16, 2018 | ccm18, Current Events, Jan Edmiston, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), student blogger, thistle farms, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UKirk branding, UTK
When Be Thou My Vision flashed across the screen of Anderson Auditorium, I gasped and whispered to my friends, “I actually know this one!” Coming from a loosely-religious family, most of the songs we’d sung throughout Montreat College Conference were unfamiliar to me....
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | commumion, Current Events, Facebook, love, politics, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UTK
This may come as a surprise to some folks, but I am a big Garth Brooks fan. Not the weird Chris Gaines alter ego phase, but, for the most part, if Garth Brooks sang it, I like it. One of my favorite Garth Brooks songs is The Dance, a song that discusses the painful...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Coffee, Current Events, Hospitality, Millennials, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), safe space, student blogger, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UPerk, UPerk Coffee, UTK, Vienna Coffee Co.
I love coffee. Anyone who has known me for an extended amount of time has probably picked up on the fact that I am always carrying a ceramic coffee mug and I coordinate them with my outfits. I have a coffee pot in my room and it’s set to brew 5 minutes before my alarm...
by admin | Jan 6, 2017 | ccm17, Current Events, love, Millennials, montreat, montreat college conference, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), racism, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UKirk branding, UTK, Worship
The new year is a time of fresh starts, different resolutions, and unwanted colds and sniffles. However, for many college students, the new year brings the annual College Conference in Montreat, North Carolina. This year the theme was Beyond Babel with a focus on race...
