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Celebration Student-led Worship
Celebration is a student-led song, prayer and Christian praise worship service held every two weeks on Sunday evenings from 7-8 p.m. The services are open to everyone.
Celebration takes place in Old Common Grounds, UC 177.
For more information and/or to get involved, contact the Celebration student coordinator.
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Worship. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMM.
Sunday, August 31, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
University Commons, Room 177 Meeting Room.
Hymn Sing
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMN.
Sunday, September 7, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seminary Building, Room 215 Martin Chapel, Seminary Building, Room 218 Fellowship Area.
CWorship: What's Your Story? T.Kishbaugh
Gather with Dr. Tara Kishbaugh, Dean of Faculty and Student Success, for our campus worship series entitled, What's Your Story? Reflections on Call and Vocation, featuring faculty and staff sharing reflections on their sense of calling and vocation (purpose and meaning). Tara's reflections will connect with the 2025-2026 EMU environmental sustainability theme.
-Who or what impacted and inspired your sense of who you were and what gave you meaning through your growing up years?
-How has your faith or spirituality informed your sense of calling and vocation/purpose?
-How are you continuing to lean into the fullness of your sense of calling and vocation in your present work and life?
Campus Worship is an invitational space for gathered worship in Christian traditions and a variety of styles. Campus Worship is held in Martin Chapel (Seminary Building) on Wednesday mornings every other week scheduled opposite of Convocation.
Read more here about campus worship and other worship services on campus.
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Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Worship, Faith & Spiritual Life, Spiritual Renewal, EMU Engage. Event Locator: 2024-AAMTXV.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM.
Seminary Building, Room 215 Martin Chapel, Seminary Building, Room 218 Fellowship Area.
Enkutatash (Ethiopian New Year)
Ethiopian New Year interviews with Ruth Abera, EMU student,
The Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia is a celebration of new beginnings. It’s a celebration of coming together and reflecting on the last year and welcoming the new year in. It’s celebrated on September 11th in America but in Ethiopia, it’s celebrated on September 1st due to our calendar difference.
Ethiopian New Year to me means an event of celebration, coming together, and acknowledgment of my culture which involves my identity. It’s a place where I can share who I am and do it with others who share that similar experience with me and share it with those who are not aware of my culture.
Upcoming expected dates are September 11, 2025; September 11, 2026; September 12, 2027; September 11, 2028.
You can access the complete Multifaith Religious and Cultural Holidays Calendar here.
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Center for Interfaith Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Interfaith Calendar. Event Locator: 2024-AAMLPV.
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 7:00 AM.
Celebration Student-led Worship
Celebration is a student-led song, prayer and Christian praise worship service held every two weeks on Sunday evenings from 7-8 p.m. The services are open to everyone.
Celebration takes place in Old Common Grounds, UC 177.
For more information and/or to get involved, contact the Celebration student coordinator.
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Worship. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMM.
Sunday, September 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
University Commons, Room 177 Meeting Room.
Hymn Sing
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMN.
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seminary Building, Room 215 Martin Chapel, Seminary Building, Room 218 Fellowship Area.
Dashain-Tihar, Sep 22-Oct 1
A Nepalese proverb states that when people come together, the bitter becomes sweet. That is especially true during the most important holidays of the Nepalese calendar, Dashain and Tihar, a 35-day festival cycle that falls during the months of October and November. Avilasha Giri, undergrad student from Nepal (2024 Interview),
Dashain, the harvest festival, spans 15 days during which Hindus honor various manifestations of the Goddess Durga and celebrate her triumph over evil forces. Tihar, the Festival of Lights, begins two weeks later. Tihar pays reverence to important animals in Nepalese culture – specifically the crow, dog, cow, and ox – with the final day reserved for celebrating the bond between siblings.
The festival cycle of Dashain-Tihar centers on celebrations with family and friends in one’s hometown. There is a strong cultural expectation to worship in the family’s chosen temple. Children and youth receive blessings and gifts from their elders. Special foods such as whole,… .
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Center for Interfaith Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Interfaith Calendar. Event Locator: 2025-AAMWPX.
Monday, September 22, 2025, 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM.
Rosh Hashanah, September 22-24
Rosh Hashanah (or Yom Teruah), also spelled Hashana or Ha-shanah, comes from Hebrew and, most simply put, means “beginning of the year.” Rosh Hashanah not only marks the new year—it also honors the creation date of Adam and Eve some 5,700 years ago, the first relationship, and the human connection with God's world. https://www.dictionary.com/e/rosh-hashana/,
The following is from an interview with Courtney Joiner, EMU Faculty,
Rosh Hashanah is celebrated as a "Day of Awe," along with Yom Kippur. These holidays and the eight days in between Courtney describes as "a space in time; it becomes a thin place, where I experience God’s closeness in those ten days." They take place between mid-September and early November each year.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, celebrating God’s creation of the world, and God renews us every year. It's symbol is the apple. The month leading up to Rosh Hashanah is called Elul which is meant to be introspection, so that when Rosh Hashanah comes, you’re ready to…
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Center for Interfaith Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Interfaith Calendar. Event Locator: 2024-AAMLMZ.
Monday, September 22, 2025, 7:00 PM.
Worship: Walls to Bridges - Luis Padilla
From Walls of Division to Bridges of Unity! Gather with seminary student Luis Padilla as he reflects on a major transformation in his life. He says, "I was a bricklayer who built walls to keep out the church and people I once loved, (and was) transformed into a 'bridge builder' who now builds bridges of peace and reconnects the church and people I now love....building bridges of peace, reconciliation and relationships. I thought I was fighting the 'good fight.' - thought I was invincible, that nothing could break me, but God allowed my heart to be broken and molded into the shape (God) desired, and (God) transformed my heart from being aggressive into a humble one!"
Campus Worship is an invitational space for gathered worship in Christian traditions and a variety of styles. Campus Worship is held in Martin Chapel (Seminary Building) on Wednesday mornings every other week scheduled opposite of Convocation.
Read more here about campus worship and other worship services on campus.
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Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Worship, Faith & Spiritual Life, Spiritual Renewal, EMU Engage. Event Locator: 2024-AAMTXX.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM.
Seminary Building, Room 215 Martin Chapel, Seminary Building, Room 218 Fellowship Area.
Celebration Student-led Worship
Celebration is a student-led song, prayer and Christian praise worship service held every two weeks on Sunday evenings from 7-8 p.m. The services are open to everyone.
Celebration takes place in Old Common Grounds, UC 177.
For more information and/or to get involved, contact the Celebration student coordinator.
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Worship. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMM.
Sunday, September 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
University Commons, Room 177 Meeting Room.
Yom Kippur, October 1-2
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is known as the holiest day of the Jewish year. Leading up to and on that day, Jews traditionally ask for forgiveness for wrongdoings from God and from fellow human beings.
This is from an interview with Courtney Joyner, EMU faculty.
“The Book of Life opens on Rosh Hashanah and closes on Yom Kippur.” You have those ten days to repent of your sins and to try to make reparations with the people you have harmed. It’s about asking forgiveness for sins we have done against other people. This needs to happen before Yom Kippur.
“I have felt more absolved of my sins in practicing Judaism than in Christianity, strangely enough. There is something about having to enter into the action of making peace with people you have harmed that seems to be largely absent from the Christian theology of sin and salvation. I feel like I have actually done something to improve my relationships with other people.”
Many Jews are at the temple all day on Yom Kippur. It’s traditional to…
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Center for Interfaith Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Interfaith Calendar. Event Locator: 2024-AAMLNA.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 6:30 PM.
Hymn Sing
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life. Event Locator: 2025-AANAMN.
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seminary Building, Room 215 Martin Chapel, Seminary Building, Room 218 Fellowship Area.
Sukkot, October 6-13
This is from an interview with Courtney Joyner, EMU faculty.
Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, starts five days after Yom Kippur, and the holiday runs for seven days. Sukkot celebrates the wandering of the Israelites in the desert for 40 years, when they had to rely only upon God for food and protection.
“Sukkah” is a temporary structure that is built during the holiday, made of sticks and greenery. You must be able to see the stars through the ceiling. It’s to bring to mind the “mishkan” or the tabernacle in the wilderness. You are supposed to eat your meals in this structure.
Sukkot is also a harvest holiday and the beginning of the season of prayers for rain.
Sukkot is one of the three “Pilgrimage Festivals” which include the holidays of Pesach (Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread), Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), and Sukkot (the Feast of Booths).
Current and upcoming dates for Sukkot include: Evening of Mon, Oct 6, 2025 – Mon, Oct 13, 2025, Evening of Fri, Sep 25, 2026 – Fri, Oct 2, 2026, …
Organization: Faith & Spiritual Life. Categories: Spiritual Life, Center for Interfaith Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Interfaith Calendar. Event Locator: 2024-AAMMJA.
Monday, October 6, 2025, 6:30 PM.