Campus Organizations

Amplify: Young Adult Seminarians
Builds stronger, more competent, highly confident young adult seminarians by educating themselves and the Church on the unique needs of young adults. This group also explores how this preparation and education can assist local churches and communities.

Campus Life Committee
Builds a sense of community among students, staff, and faculty and their families through various social and recreational activities.

Cannon Dinner Group
Provides an opportunity for fellowship and community building. This group meets for dinner on Tuesdays in the Cannon residence hall.

Coordinating Council
Oversees our common life and coordinates activities that are of interest to all the constituencies of the community. This group includes representatives from each of the various committees.

Covenant Groups
Persons that meet on a regular basis in order to hold themselves accountable to God and their own discipleship. Groups may write their own covenant, centered on acts of piety, mercy, and the leading of the Holy Spirit and each other.

Educational Enrichment Committee
Plans and implements lectureships to benefit the entire community.

Evangelical Society
Seeks to address academic and professional concerns in an evangelical spirit, as well as spiritual and theological matters. This group gathers around a common commitment to the importance of a meaningful personal relationship with Jesus Christ experienced and lived out in the Christian faith community - a community that embodies the Biblical story of God's work in the world through Israel and the Church.

Formation and Worship Committee
Actively works to provide opportunities for personal spiritual formation and coordinates the corporate worship and devotional life of the community.

Health and Wellness
Promotes healthy choices in all areas of life: mind, body, spirit, and relationships. The task force sponsors health screenings and events, chapel services and assemblies.

Korean Student Association
Helps initiate students into campus life for an effective preparation for ministry as international students. This group hopes to connect and share with other students and faculty members, serve as a support group for other international students, and offer specific programs on campus involving the culture and themselves.

"Meetloaf"
Provides an opportunity for fun and fellowship where students, staff, and faculty are welcome. This is a gathering of anyone available for a potluck dinner Wednesday evenings in the Ada Mead residence hall.

Multicultural Coalition
Provides a supportive framework for racial/ethnic faculty, staff, students and their families that will facilitate spiritual growth and physical well being, encourage productive study and preparation for service and ministry to all God's people. Educates the seminary community about different racial/ethnic cultures through workshops, cultural activities, worship, and special programs. Open to all who seek to be a part of this supportive framework.

Order of Saint Luke
Celebrates the evangelical and sacramental spirit of Christians of many traditions. Provides a forum for the discussion and recovery of the sacramental life through liturgy, worship, the sacraments, and education. The group is also a religious order professing vows to a rule of life and service.

Sacred Worth
A group for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities whose purpose is to promote and maintain a respectful, open and safe environment for addressing spiritual, personal, socio-political and theological issues of sexual/gender diversity at Saint Paul School of Theology.

Social Justice Committee
Keeps issues of justice before the community and encourages active participation toward justice.
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Student Council
Provides a forum to deal with student issues and concerns. The Student Council functions as the official student voice and works to communicate student concerns to faculty, staff, administration, and trustees. This group also manifests student presence in a variety of areas of the Saint Paul community.

Student Services Committee
Ensures equity and the valuing of diversity in the seminary's programs and policies.

Women in Ministry
Celebrates and supports women of every race and culture in all areas of ministry as they are challenged in their personal, professional, and academic lives. Provides the Saint Paul community of women and men an opportunity to interact and support one another through education, advocacy, celebration, worship, and spiritual growth.

Other Student Appointed Groups
There are also several groups that contain student appointed membership. Please contact the Community Life Office at Arthur.Carter@spst.edu for additional information.