Living Well at LRU Living Well Center for Vocation and Purpose

“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.” ― Frederick Buechner

WELCOME BACK! As we begin classes again, we will continue to work through the pandemic following LR’s hybrid plan.

Virtual Community Coffee Hours: We will resume our weekly community coffee hours via Zoom and invite you to join us for a break from the routine or an opportunity to connect with the greater LR community. Conversation may lead to questions of identity, purpose, or vocation. Or it may simply center around navigating life, especially during COVID. Our only “agenda” is to support one another as we share our days and our journeys at LRU. Please join us at your convenience between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. each Tuesday through April 20th. Drop in here (Passcode: 826531)

Interfaith Opportunity: 26, 2021, 4:00—5:00 pm CST Neighbors Together in a Divided Nation: An Inter-religious Conversation The Augsburg University Interfaith Institute invites students, faculty and staff of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU) to join in reflecting upon how various religious and secular traditions call for our engagement in loving and serving the neighbor, working for healing, justice, peace and mercy, and the care of creation in a divided and often distrustful nation and world. Please register here.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9

https://www.penncd.com/why-to-get-excited-over-fall/ What Makes for a Life Worth Living? In lieu of hosting in-person convocations this year, we have created a series of video interviews in which a variety of community and religious leaders respond to this question. In our newest video, the President of Hood Theological Seminary, The Rev. Dr. Vergel Lattimore, shares his insight on living a life that matters. In this timely interview, he also addresses the question of why the Black Lives Matter movement matters to the church today. Check it out here!

Religious Tradition Date Holiday/Celebration Celebrations around the World Catholic Christian Jan. 1 Mary, Mother of God January is a busy month around the Orthodox Christian Jan. 1 Feast Day of St. Basil world and among those who identify Shinto Jan. 1 Shogatsu (New Year’s) with various world religions! The chart represents some of the major religious Christian Jan. 5 (of Christmas) celebrations, but it is not all- Christian/Orthodox Jan. 6 , Three Kings’Day inclusive. Check out these websites Christian Feast of the Epiphany for more information: Orthodox Christian Jan. 7 Feast of the Nativity Christian Jan. 10 The of Jesus Calendar Labs Sikh Jan. 13 Maghi Interfaith Calendar Hindu Jan. 14 Makar Sankranti/Pongal Read The Spirit Interfaith Jan. 17 World Religion Day

Christian Jan. 18 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins Click here to read more about World Secular Holiday Jan. 18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Religion Day, Jan. 17, and its history. Ethiopian Christian Jan. 19 Timkat Buddhist Jan. 20 Bodhi Day Sikh Jan. 20 Birthday of Guru Gobindh Singh Christian Jan. 25 Conversion of St. Paul Interfaith Jan. 27 World Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day Jewish Jan. 28 Tu B’Shvat Buddhist Jan. 28 Mahayana New Year Hindu Jan. 28 Thaipusam

Living Well Center Contact Information: Dr. Mindy Makant, Director: [email protected]; 828.328.7188 Mrs. Debbie Tonnesen, Program Coordinator: [email protected]; 828.328.7855 Lohr Learning Commons, Rudisill Library Rooms 227/228 Facebook: Lenoir-Rhyne University Living Well Center for Vocation and Purpose January, 2021