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Sundays’ Table Fellowship
Almost every Sunday evening when school is in session during the spring and
fall semesters, students gather at the ECM campus center for physical and spiritual nourishment.
No one knows for sure, but it’s likely that this tradition was in place long before the campus
center was built, nearly fifty years ago. Students sign up to fix the meal for the evening,
which could range from make your own personal size pizza to breakfast for supper to spaghetti.
After the meal, students gather to discuss a topic or participate in a planned fun activity.
International Friendship Dinners
For the past several years ECM has sponsored at least one such dinner each semester at our
campus center as a way of welcoming some of the nearly 1,000 international students who attend
K-State. Food is prepared and donated by members of the four local congregations that support
by the international students themselves. Last August, KSU senior, Sarah Mitts, presented the
after-dinner program on the fair trade movement, which generated much interest among both
international and American students and friends in attendance. This event attracted about
ninety participants.
Yoga and Prayer
Blending the need for motion and stillness and solitude in students’ lives, this small group
provides physical and spiritual healing to participants each Monday evenings, during the school
year. Combining movements borrowed from Kundalini yoga, readings from the Psalms, an extended
period of silence, and the Lord’s Prayer in a candlelit setting provides an invigorating and
refreshing experience.
Community Service
ECM students along with students from Engineers Without Borders, met twice a month last fall to
volunteer their time and energy to strengthen the Emergency Shelter in Manhattan. Students
helped with re-organizing the basement, stuffing envelopes for a fundraising mailing, preparing
apartments for new tenants and tending to yard work.
Kansas - Oklahoma
Conference, United Church
of Christ,
Pastors' Banquet
September
28, 2006, hosted at ECM.
ECM had the privilege to play host to the K-O Conference Pastors' Banquet, if it wasn't for the
help of our many students and board members the banquet wouldn't have gone as smoothly as it
did. Students and board members who participated in preparation of meal, serving, and cleaning
up afterwards: Patrick Yancey (Head Chef), Ingelin Leslie, Carroll Hess, Jamie Lynn Weaver,
Tabor Porter, James Gaunt, Jenny Tucker, Richard O'Konski, Gilbert Malinga, Rob Hayes, Monte
Johnson, Tom Hawk, Neil Engle and Miyuki Shimizu.
 
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