RESCHEDULED FROM OCTOBER!

Speaker: Laura Story, renowned worship leader, Christian recording artist, Covenant Seminary alumna, and author of the books So Long, Normal; When God Doesn’t Fix It; and I Give Up. Laura serves as Executive Director of Worship Environments and Resources at Perimeter Church (PCA) in Atlanta, GA. Laura wrote the popular worship songs “Indescribable,” “Mighty to Save,” and “Blessings," and recently released a new single: “Come Unto Jesus." 

In this special Ministry Lunch, Laura will share with us her story of God’s work in her life as well as her expertise on the topic of organizing, planning, and leading worship music. We'll have a time of Q & A—so bring your questions!

All students and local pastors/worship leaders are invited to join us.

UPDATED LINK to RSVP for this event.

Speaker: Dr. Drew Martin, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Covenant Seminary

Special Musical Guest: Laura Story, award-winning recording artist, songwriter, author, and CTS alumnus will also speak at a Special Ministry Lunch on campus later today on the topic of planning and leading worship. See more here.

Deadline to get account balance below $2,100 to avoid future registration blockage.

First-year students, join Mark McElmurry and Megan Jung for lunch to check in about your first semester. Come with questions, listening ears, empty stomachs. We want to hear from you, as well as join you. Come share how your time at CTS has been thus far.

RSVP to Megan Jung at megan.jung@covenantseminary.edu.

More info to come.

Speaker: Rev. Josiah Green, Lead Pastor, Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (PCA), Maplewood, MO

Join us for our weekly time of worship and the Word.

Speakers: Doug Shepherd, Mission to the World Team Leader, Lviv, Ukraine

Church planting, university ministry, war, aid—and opportunities. Come hear how the war in Ukraine has challenged the church and provided opportunities for the gospel. Hear about a unique opportunity for CTS students to serve for 4 weeks in an intensive ministry internship in the summer of 2025.

Speakers: Judy Barlett, Wonmin Kim, and Tara Gibbs

Ministry families face unique challenges. As those who have served many years in ministry, Judy, Wonmin, and Tara are eager to help equip your ministry toolbox with God’s faithful promises and share the lessons we've learned along the way. Join us  as we reflect on Jesus’s invitation: “I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:28b).

Topics of Discussion:

• Rest and Sabbath

• Rest and Gospel Identity

• Rest in the Midst of Discipleship and Ministry

Together, we will celebrate the rest Jesus promises—engaging all our senses as we talk, laugh, feast, celebrate, sing, and paint with watercolors.

Event Details:

• Friday Night (Dinner Provided): 5:30 – 7:30 p,m,

• Saturday Morning (Light Breakfast): 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/2hudsTej5XjDnEjm9

NOTE: If childcare is an obstacle to you joining us on Saturday morning, please contact Family Nurture Coordinator Annalisa Smith at annalisa.smith@covenantseminary.edu.

Speakers: Judy Barlett, Wonmin Kim, and Tara Gibbs

Ministry families face unique challenges. As those who have served many years in ministry, Judy, Wonmin, and Tara are eager to help equip your ministry toolbox with God’s faithful promises and share the lessons we've learned along the way. Join us  as we reflect on Jesus’s invitation: “I will give you rest.” (Matt. 11:28b).

Topics of Discussion:

• Rest and Sabbath

• Rest and Gospel Identity

• Rest in the Midst of Discipleship and Ministry

Together, we will celebrate the rest Jesus promises—engaging all our senses as we talk, laugh, feast, celebrate, sing, and paint with watercolors.

Event Details:

• Friday Night (Dinner Provided): 5:30 – 7:30 p,m,

• Saturday Morning (Light Breakfast): 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/2hudsTej5XjDnEjm9

NOTE: If childcare is an obstacle to you joining us on Saturday morning, please contact Family Nurture Coordinator Annalisa Smith at annalisa.smith@covenantseminary.edu.

Come meet Dean of Students Mark McElmurry and Associate Dean of Women Megan Jung during a time of open discussion and donuts.

Open to all students and spouses.

Includes changing from credit to audit.

Speaker: Dr. Aaron Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Covenant Seminary

Join us for our weekly time of worship and the Word.

Speakers: CTS Development Office Staff

Come learn how fundraising professionals practice their craft. This seminar is the second of two offerings from the Development Office aimed at answering your questions, helping you identify and understand the available resources, and developing a fully-formed fundraising plan. Lunch provided.

SIGN UP HERE to receive information for this seminar and to help us know how much food to order for lunch:

Online students may join us here through Panopto.

Come ready for some Halloween fun with our annual chili cookoff, a costume parade for the kids (more info to come), spooky music, apple cider, and games. Costumes for everyone are optional and highly encouraged!

Chili Cookoff: f you would like to participate in the Chilli Cookoff, please sign up here. There will be a (very nice, TBA) prize for the chilli with the most votes. 

For those who are not participating in our chilli cookoff, please bring a side or dessert to share.

Sponsored by: Student Council. We look forward to seeing you there!

Speakers: Sarah Bobell, The Scribe Writing Center Coordinator, and Eric Stiller (MDiv, DMin), Pastor, Central West End Church

The Scribe Conversation Series seeks to facilitate community dialogue around using reading and writing as aids to our spiritual formation.

Rev. Stiller will present material from his DMin dissertation titled “A Picture Set Us Free: Preaching to the Imagination in a Secular Age.” One of the biggest challenges to preaching the Christian faith in the modern West is a growing inability to make sense of the basic categories that comprise a Christian worldview. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others, the dissertation explores how preachers engage the imagination during sermons to help people in the closed or open immanent frame shift to an open transcendent frame.

Speaker: Rev. Ed Dunnington, President, Geneva Benefits Group

Join us for our weekly time of worship and the Word.

Speaker: Rev. John Medlock, VP of People & Culture, Geneva Benefits Group (PCA)

What does it take for church leaders to thrive on the long road of ministry? Join us as Rev. Medlock looks at the factors that influence ministerial wellbeing generally, along with insights from his research into the wellbeing of PCA pastors. Along the way, he will discuss three key tensions pastors face and offer some suggestions for small steps that can make a big difference in a pastor’s overall wellbeing.

Online students, join us at this link.

We are offering a FREE flu shot clinic for all students, spouses, and children of students. (NOTE: This is a different clinic than the one for CTS faculty & staff.)

Accepted health insurance providers include: Aetna, Anthem - Blue Cross and Blue Shield (NO EPO's), Cigna (NO EPO's), Coventry, Essence, HealthLink, Humana, United Healthcare - including AllsSavers, GoldenRule, UMR & GEHA

​Medicare Plans: Medicare Part B, Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield Advantage HMO & PPO, Essence

​Medicare Advantage Plans  PPO ONLY - NO HMO:  Aetna, Cigna Medicare Access, Coventry, HealthLink, Humana, United HealthCare - including PPO AARP

​Missouri Medicaid for 18 Years & Younger ONLY: Home State Health, Missouri Care, United HealthCare Community Plans, Health Blue, Ambetter, MO Healthnet

 VNA cannot accept Medicaid plans for those over the age of 18.

​Please have your insurance card available at your scheduled appointment.

HOW TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT:

Use this link for students and families: https://pickatime.com/CovenantSeminary

Online Scheduling Instructions

1. Enter Email Address.

2. If you have not used PickATime before you will need to click “here” in the red box to sign up.

3. Once you are logged in, click on “Covenant Seminary.”

4. Select the appointment time you want.

5. Check “I would like to add this appointment to my calendar.”

6. Select “Create Appointment.”

7. Done. You can print if you would like.

We are offering a FREE flu shot clinic for all faculty and staff, and their families. (NOTE: This is a different clinic than the one for CTS students.)

See recent faculty/staff email from Human Resources for list of insurance providers accepted and for various consent forms needed.

To schedule your appointment, please follow the instructions below.

1. Schedule one appointment per person.

2. Click the following link  https://pickatime.com/CovenantSeminaryStaff

3. Enter your email address.

4. If you have not used PickATime before, you will receive the message “Your email address is not registered. Please click HERE to sign up.” Click HERE in the pink/red box.

5. Type your first and last name and create a password.

6. Click “Create Your Free Account.”

7. Once you are logged in, click on “Covenant Theological Seminary Staff.”

8. Select the appointment time you want.

9. Check the box that says, “I would like to add this appointment to my calendar.”

10. Select “Create Appointment.”

11. Done. You can print if you would like.

**Please bring your insurance information and consent form(s) to your scheduled appointment(s).

Speakers: CTS Development Office Staff

Come learn how fundraising professionals practice their craft. This seminar is the first of two offerings from the Development Office aimed at answering your questions, helping you identify and understand the available resources, and developing a fully-formed fundraising plan. Lunch provided.

SIGN UP HERE to receive information for this seminar and to help us know how much food to order for lunch:

Online students may join us here through Panopto.

Speaker: Dr. Robbie Griggs, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Covenant Seminary

NOTE: Due to illness, special musical guest Laura Story will not be able to join us today as planned. Her Chapel visit is rescheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 13. Laura will also speak at a Special Ministry Lunch on campus that day on the topic of planning and leading worship.

Come meet Dean of Students Mark McElmurry and Associate Dean of Women Megan Jung during a time of open discussion and donuts.

Open to all students and spouses.

Can’t attend today? Join us on Nov. 1 for another Deans and Donuts event.

Speaker: Steve Jamieson, Library Director, Buswell Library

Zotero is a free software tool that tracks your research and automates the construction of citations and bibliographies. Come learn how to build a Zotero library, manage your sources, insert citations, and avoid common pitfalls.

See more info on the Library’s Workshops page.

Livestream link to come.

Men of Covenant — Join us for our annual Brotherhood and BBQ in the Community Center. We’ll have games, good times with fellow students and faculty, and some great BBQ.  

Speaker: Travis Stewart, Director of Development at Covenant Seminary will speak on “The Freedom of Humility.” 

Travis was on campus staff with The Navigators for many years, where he and Dean of Students Mark McElmurry met and became friends. He came to Covenant in 1999 to get his MAC and MATS degrees. He is a gifted communicator and longs to see others grasp the goodness of God. 

Don’t miss this time! It is a great opportunity to connect with your fellow brothers on campus—and to eat a lot of smoked meat!