The Christian Life Fund enables programming and services to support students, faculty and staff from across the Christian tradition at Emory. Beloved Community is Emory's weekly Sunday morning 11 am ecumenical worship service in Cannon Chapel. Beloved Community is a diverse and progressive community that is a home for many students during their time at Emory. Emory Christian Life programs also support many students of different Protestant denominations and Catholic and Orthodox students.
Donations to the Christian Life Fund support a weekly lunch after worship on Sundays in Cannon Chapel, allow us to invite incredible guest preachers and speakers to campus, and sponsor meditative retreats, and promote ecumenical student fellowship and engagement.
In describing this past fall’s inaugural Beloved Community retreat, a current student said, “The inaugural Beloved Community retreat was a refreshing, intentional day! Each activity fostered connections and conversation over our faith, from crafts to a Lullwater picnic to small group discussion and ending with a beautiful bonfire. For many students (myself included!) whose busy lives are stacked to the brim with classes, homework, clubs, the expectations of others, and simply trying to take care of ourselves, the retreat provided a slow-paced space to remember an integral, but easily forgotten truth we build our lives on: who our God is and how he loves us."
