2025
Sign up for a Community Small Group next semester!
Next semester, Grace University Lutheran Church – where we gather on Wednesday nights and beyond – will be under construction for some much needed updates to the building. We will still have pause student worship in the sanctuary, but many of our other gathering places in the church will not be usable in the spring.
Without things like our community dinners or 7pm hour craft nights, we are striving to be creative and experimental with how we gather together as a community, with the hope that everyone might experience the healing power of belonging and the transformational nature of Christ’s welcome.
So with that, next semester we are beginning student-led Community Small Groups that will gather throughout the week and throughout campus.
2025
Take a breath and rest on the Fall Retreat!
While it might be in the 80s on campus this week, our community is excitedly looking forward to one of the best parts of our year together: the Fall Retreat! Don’t miss out on this restorative opportunity to get off campus, explore creation, connect with God, and get to know new friends!
2025
Interested in an LCM Bible Study?
God created us for connection and belonging, and to find these in God certainly, but we’re also made to find connection and belonging amongst each other. Bible Studies offer a chance to connect meaningfully in a smaller group, to get to know good and interesting people, to pray together, and to explore and wrestle with scripture with other students!
2025
Welcome Class of 2029!
Welcome to UMN Twin Cities! I’m sure each and every one of you is experiencing a variety of emotions—excitement, anxiety, first-day jitters, loneliness—the list goes on and on. Or perhaps you don’t know how to describe how you’re feeling and it’s just a general sense of being completely overwhelmed. That was definitely how I felt, and however you’re feeling is completely okay. I hope that after reading this letter, you’ll have confidence in yourself to navigate these emotions, take things one day at a time, believe that things will get easier, and know how to find a supportive community to help you on campus these first couple days, weeks, and months.
2025
A Slower Pace at Holden Village Deepens Community
This year, our community spent Spring Break at Holden Village, focusing on prayer, learning, and building connections. With 20 student attendees, most of whom didn’t know each other well before the trip, the experience offered a chance for deepening friendships and forming new relationships. Over hours on trains, buses, and ferries, and in the tech-free environment at Holden, students were able to get to know one another in a deeper way than they can during Wednesday night fellowship.
2025
Trans Stories are Sacred
At the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, there are over 40 Christian student groups that students can be a part of and yet, only three of them are vocally and unwaveringly affirming of the queer community. LCM-Twin Cities is proud to be one of these ministries and this is simply one way that we embody God’s unconditional love on this campus. In March, along with the other LGBTQIA+ affirming Christian ministries at the U, we co-hosted an event, Trans Stories are Sacred, which celebrated our trans and nonbinary siblings, their stories, and who God created them to be!
2025
Pastoral Reflections | Spring 2025
In mid-February, when the temperature was below zero, just before our pause worship at 8pm on a Wednesday night, I noticed a newer student lingering by the entrance to the sanctuary at Grace University Lutheran Church. I introduced myself and asked her how she found us. She simply said, “I’m not religious at all, but I just thought I should start coming to church.”
2024
Welcome Class of 2028!
Welcome to the University of Minnesota! Just a year ago, I was in your place, both incredibly
excited and nervous to start my freshman year.
I came into my first year with a lot of questions about my faith and the role it played in my life.
During the summer before I started my first semester, I tried to shove those questions into the
back of my mind in favor of the more pressing concerns I had going into the year. As a new out-
of-state student who had taken a gap year, I worried a lot about finding my place on a campus
where I knew no one, and that felt larger than I had imagined it.
2024
Northern Ireland – Spring Break – Reflections
After many hours of travel, 16 LCMers, one staff member, and one pastor arrived at Dublin Airport only to encounter our first challenge of the trip: finding our bus driver. Luckily, after only a few minutes and frantic phone calls we located Nigel, a cheery yet taciturn local who ended up driving us around for the week and teaching us Irish sayings.