Interest in arts emphasized
at Lutheran Student Chapel
By Rebecca Brite
The pastor of the Lutheran Student Chapel
calls his ministry an apostiate, or assignment.
"We are called by the church at large to fill
thi3 assignment on the University campus," the
Rev. Alvin Peterson said.
"But, in a sense," he added, "the church is
already here. A community of believers is
already here. Our ministry is our presence it's
just being here."
The Lutheran Student Chapel is centered, he
said, around a worship ministry. Services are
held at the chapel on Sunday mornings and
Wednesday evenings. The center also sponsors
Sunday evening feiiowship groups and a chapel
choir.
Both Peterson and his associate, The Rev.
Don Wendt, said the center's study groups,
social activities and involvement in the arts also
play a large part in their ministry. The staff is
involved in interpersonal counseling as well.
Interest in the arts, Peterson said, always has
been emphasized at the Lutheran Student
Chapel. A Festival of the Arts is held each year,
and sculpture, graphics and the performing arts
are brought into the center "to become part of
our lives," he said.
Peterson's wife called "Mom Pete" by both
students and staff does volunteer staff work at
the chapel. She said she especially is interested
in the performing arts and in film. Film festivals
oftin are held at the center, she said.
The Petersons have been at the chapel for 28
years. Wendt said their commitment, more than
, anything else, has "provided the center with
strength, and created an ongoing complex of
relationships."
Peterson said he thinks the Lutheran
Student Chapel has maintained "a supportive
ministry that definitely is not short range.
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"The impact of our work can be seen in the
community in our alumni. Many of the people
on our governing board were once bur students,
and many of their children now come" to the
chapel.
"I know, too, that we have heiped keep
some kids in college who might have left had
we not been here." ,
"But the real payoff," Mom Pete said, "is in
watching people mature over a four or five year
period, and knowing you've had a hand in it."
, ' Both Peterson and Wendt said general
religious interst is not rising.
"There have always been groups on campus
that are into spiritual things," Peterson said.
"The difference now is in a turning from
activism to a search for personal meaning.
Wendt said the campus is reflecting "a search
by the whole society for alternatives.
"Also, there is now more freedom for people
to admit their involvements in religious
movements," he said.
Wendt expressed satisfaction with the
religious diversity which he said can be found
on the campus.
"Each campus ministry reaches a different
faction on campus," he said. "We complement
each other, and we share a common concern for
the University community."
The Lutheran Student Chapel is funded
through the American Lutheran Church and the
Lutheran Church in America (ALC-LCA).
Correction . . .
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion
or a philosophy, as implied in Monday's articJe
inthe Daily IMebraskan.
Instead, it is a im-ntal technique, according
to Doug Bowen, president of the UNL Students
International Meditation Society.
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