For Parents
A Church Home Away From Home
For the first time in most of their lives, college students find themselves away from home—family homes, church homes, social and geographical homes. Home is where we know that we belong; where we learn, laugh, love and receive love.
Here, at the Presbyterian Student Center, we know that our dining room is not your dining room—that our chapel is not your congregation’s sanctuary. But the God who teaches us to love and care for these students is the same God in whom they have found their home for the last 17+ years—the same God who has taught you and your congregation to love and to care.
Sending our children away to college is at once terrifying and joyful—we are proud and we are anxious. Knowing that they are connected to a community which exists for the sake of welcoming, loving, and encouraging students along their faithful journey to adulthood brings an incredible peace. You can help them to find this community and at the same time, help yourself to find this peace.
For Your Incoming Students
Retreats
As a campus ministry with 80 years of experience caring for students, we recognize both the demands of university life, and the invitation of faith. So Fall, Winter, and Spring, the PSC takes students on various spiritual retreats. Typically, Fall Retreat is a community building trip to a student’s family lake house (if you have access to a lake house that can accommodate 20-25 people, and would be willing for it to be a retreat location, 1) bless you! and 2) you can email our campus minister, Will to let him know.
2020/21 Retreats:
Fall Retreat - Sept. 18-20, Lake Burton
Montreat College Conference - Jan. 2-5
Spring Pilgrimage - April 9-11 (tentative) - Montgomery AL
Support
We are fortunate to receive nearly half of our budgeted income each year from property usage (parking, a rental house, and other Christian ministries who conduct portions of their ministry from our building). Combined with congregational and denominational support, all overhead, including ministry staff compensation, is covered. This means both that every dollar given by individual donors goes directly to ministry with students. and that we couldn’t do this without the support of parents, alumni, and friends of the PSC.
Ways to Support the PSC
Parents: Set up a recurring gift while your child is in school
Contribute to the Scholarship Fund - anywhere from $15 for a small group book
to $350 to send a student to Montreat College Conference.
Tuesday Dinners - purchase or provide dinner for our weekly Word+Table (approx. $250 per week during the pandemic).
or checks made out to
Presbyterian Campus Ministry
can be mailed to
1250 S Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30605