You are wonderfully loved!
"Love one another as I have loved you"
– Jesus of Nazareth
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"Wonderfully Loved" is the tagline for LCM Canterbury, the Episcopal and ELCA Lutheran campus ministry here at Northern Arizona University. But it's more than a tagline; it defines our ministry. It's the promise we live by, the way we try to live together in community, and what motivates us to love and serve others. We are wonderfully loved by God through Jesus Christ. Loved for who we are, just as we are. Reflecting that love, we seek to welcome all who pass through our doors with his kind of all-inclusive, grace-filled love — a love that accepts us fully but also challenges us and changes us. Sure, we don't always get it right. But God does.
At LCM Canterbury, we welcome and affirm people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, abilities, disabilities, races, ethnic identities, economic statuses, and backgrounds. Growing together in faith, we seek the unity that Christ envisions for his church through learning, worship, service and fellowship.
At LCM Canterbury, we believe that:
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Everyone is created in God's image and is loved by God. No exceptions.
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Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior and that the Gospel is the power and promise of God's healing and liberating love for all.
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God creates and sustains all that exists, that Jesus Christ is the Word of God in the flesh, and that through His life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
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The Bible is the Word of God which bears witness to God's reconciling love and grace through the stories of God's people and Jesus Christ.
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The books of the Bible were shaped by the context, history, and worldview of those who wrote and collected them and that through them God's Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain faith and fellowship for service and witness in the world.
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People of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, abilities, disabilities, races, ethnic identities, economic statuses, and backgrounds should be welcomed, affirmed, and valued. With God's help, we commit ourselves to actively working for reconciliation, racial equity, and justice for all people, and to respecting the dignity of every person.
Leadership Team
Sarah Lee
She/They
Peer Minister & President
Major: Theater Arts (Theater Studies) & Secondary Education (English)
Class: 2028
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite ice cream flavor:
Caleb Jensen
He/Him
Music Minister & Web Manager
Major: Journalism
Class: 2027
Favorite Color: Dark green
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Mint chocolate chip
Luke Zaddack
He/Him
Vice President
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Class: 2027
Favorite Color: Dark blue & sunset orange
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:
Morgan McCandless
She/Her
Secretary
Major: Biomedical Sciences & Modern Languages with emphasis in German
Class: 2028
Favorite Color: Yellow
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Sea salt caramel
Gina Haney
She/Her
Treasurer
Major: Environmental Science, Chemistry emphasis
Class: 2026
Favorite Color: Orange
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Coffee
Clauds Weimar
They/Them
Social Media Manager
Major: Psychology Major, Minors in Spanish & Mathematics
Class: 2028
Favorite Color: Violet
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate chip cookie dough
Pastor Mike Girlinghouse
He/Him
Chaplain
Pastor Mike comes to LCM Canterbury after having served for twelve years as the bishop of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod of the ELCA. Before being elected as bishop in 2011, Pastor Mike served for twenty years in campus ministry at Wayne State College, Wayne, NE, the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD and at the University of Oklahoma, OK. Pastor Mike loves to cook, read, watch sci-fi and photography. He also plays the trombone and djembe drum. Pastor Mike lives with Terrie, his wife of forty years, and their two pups.
Our Board
Rev. Mike Girlinghouse
Chaplain
Rev. Gwen Brandfass
President
Rev. Shannon Leach
Vice President
Ken Kumon
Secretary
Rev. Cheryl Fox
Treasurer
Sarah Lee
Student Representative
Luke Zaddack
Student Representative
Rev. Jacqui Pagel
Synod Representative
Rev. Alison Lee
Board Member
Rev. Adam Barnhart
Board Member
Craig McAlister
Board Member
Cecily Combs
Board Member
Cari States-Codding
Board Member
Karen Plager
Board Member
Zach Smirris
Board Member