Greg Schaefer Moves to Stanford
Former Admissions Director Rev. Greg Schaefer has left PLTS to serve University Church, the Home of Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry at Stanford University. He says, “It is a wonderfully exciting call because of the many layers of collegiality involved in it.”
In a recent email Greg shared the following about his new call:
The Office for Religious Life at Stanford is made up of a Dean (a Unitarian Universalist Christian Minister), two Associate Deans (a Rabbi and an Episcopal Priest), and about 30 professional leaders, of which I am one. Others include religious leaders of the Buddhist, Muslim, Bahai, Jewish, Unitarian, Hindu, and 25 Christian groups. Of those, 25 Christian groups, about 22 are what we would call conservative Christians.
My closest colleagues are an Episcopal Priest and a Reformed Minister. The Episcopal Priest and I serve the ELCM (Ep/Lu Campus Min) and the Reformed Minister serves the United Campus Christian Ministry. We, together with the Catholic Campus Ministry, make up the Progressive Christian leadership of the campus. All of us are brand new, so we have the freedom to invent, devise, and brainstorm as well as the ability to carry out our brainstorms!
These groups are housed in one building on campus, where we all have offices, meeting spaces, a library, and a worship space. The ELCM, however, also has a home at University Church, across the street from the University. There, we also have worship and fellowship on Sunday’s and other times during the week. The communities, though, are one in that the congregation exists to host the campus ministry and the students participate in the life of the congregation through service on the council, etc.
