“Christ’s Kingdom First” states clearly the Christian commitment at Malone College. The College seeks to involve, equip and release students to potentially life-changing ministry opportunities.

 

 

Campus Ministries staff members work closely with students, college staff and faculty to facilitate spiritual formation. Programs are designed to encourage personal and campus-wide spiritual development, participation in society as Kingdom citizens, and spiritual and moral accountability. The offices of the College Pastor, Director of Campus Ministries, and Director of Service-Learning Trips are located in the Randall Campus Center.

 

 

The practical aspects of Christian commitment, such as service and evangelism, take students outside of the Malone community. To serve the poor and needy locally, students organize to help in soup kitchens, collect food for the hungry and participate in other outreach programs.

 

A little further from home, students may participate in service or spiritual development trips to urban centers of major cities or other areas of the United States that are in need. Trips outside the borders of the United States are also planned each year, such as trips to Africa, China, Central America and Eastern Europe. Trips vary each year; for more information, see the Director of Service-Learning.

 

 

Chapel at Malone College is essential to the distinctive mission and identity of the College and its effort to integrate the Christian faith with the whole of our lives. Chapel is intended to creatively engage the Malone College community with the gospel and the implications of life in the Kingdom of God. Presentations are characterized by integrity in both the speaker and the presentation itself. The goals of our chapel ministry include providing opportunities:

 

•           to understand and develop a personal faith in Jesus Christ

 

•           for the College community to understand and experience a deeper relationship with God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through worship, which is indispensable for personal wholeness

 

•           to understand the implications of the Christian faith by addressing pertinent character, cultural, and theological issues leading to a life-long commitment to service, and consequently to positively influence our campus culture

 

• to address our cultural tendency toward individualism by providing a forum which uniquely reinforces a sense of campus community and identity.

 

Chapel Participation: Students’ attendance in chapel is required because, within our Christian framework, we believe that all teaching of truth must be built on a foundation of God’s truth.  Thus, in the same way we require students to study the truth of physical science, the arts, and literature, there is no contradiction in requiring students to study God’s truth.  Chapel facilitates students’ experience and understanding of God’s truth through study of the Bible, exposure to corporate worship, and opportunities to understand the relationship offered to us in Christ.  For this reason all full-time students are required to participate in the Chapel program while they are members of the student body. Chapels are typically held on Mondays, Wednesdays and some Fridays, 10:05–10:40 a.m., at the Johnson Center for Worship and Fine Arts.

 

Chapel Credits and ID’s: Students must earn 20 chapel credits (1 Chapel = 1 credit) per semester. Students must present their student ID card at each Chapel in order to receive Chapel credit.

 

Chapel Discipline:  Students will be issued a disciplinary fine when they fail to meet the semester requirement of 20 chapel credits.  This fine will be assessed on the last regular class day at 5 p.m.; therefore, any appeals concerning students’ chapel attendance must be made to the Campus Ministries Dept. before that time. 

 

To avoid being fined, students may watch the video of a missed chapel and write a one-page reflection paper on that chapel before the last regular class day at 5 p.m.  Video procedures and paper guidelines are available in Campus Ministries.  If a student still does not meet his/her chapel requirement, the number of chapels attended will determine the amount of the disciplinary fine, for example: 19 chapel credits = $35; 18 credits = $70; 17 credits = $105; etc.  The money received from these fines will be directed into Malone’s Service-Learning Program.Any appeals to disciplinary fines must be made to the Director of campus Ministries within one month of the last regular class day for that semester.

 

Forgotten ID’s: Students without their student ID must sign their name at that Chapel and bring their ID to the Department of Campus Ministries by 3:00 p.m. that day in order to receive Chapel credit.

 

Latecomers: Scanning ID cards for Chapel credit concludes at 10:10 a.m. Latecomers cannot receive credit for that day.

 

Chapel Credit Accounts: Chapel Credit Accounts are maintained for every student. Students may receive updates on their Chapel credits by logging onto Malone’s website (www.malone.edu).

 

Chapel Excuses: Students may be excused from part or all of the current semester’s Chapel program only by applying for an academic or non-academic excuse within the first two weeks of classes. Applications can be obtained at the Department of Campus Ministries in the Randall Campus Center (Ext. 8441) or on the Campus Ministries website www.malone.edu/d43. It is the student’s responsibility to renew these excuses if needed each semester.

 

Students may be excused from Chapels for the following reasons:

 

•           commuter with no scheduled     classes before 11:00 a.m. on Chapel days (academic excuse)

•           field experience/student teaching/internships during the Chapel hour (academic excuse)

•           employment (non-academic excuse)

•           extenuating personal or family needs (non-academic excuse)

 

Students who are exempt from one Chapel per week due to reasons listed above are required to earn 10 Chapel credits (example: those excused from Monday Chapels would need to attend 10 Wednesday or Friday Chapels).

 

Integrity Violations: The following are violations of the Community Agreement which will incur a disciplinary sanction issued by the Dean of Students:

 

•           Students scanning a student ID card for Chapel attendance and leaving before the conclusion     of that Chapel.

•           Students scanning an ID card  other than their own.

•           Any action considered by the Chapel Committee to constitute a violation.

 

Chapel Worship Etiquette: Chapel is not merely a student assembly. Since the purpose of Chapel is public and corporate worship for the entire Malone community, the following instructions are listed in order to enhance and enrich the worship experience for everyone:

 

•           Please remove all hats out of respect for our purpose and reverence for God (as in the attitude of Moses removing his shoes in the presence of God).

•           Please do not leave your seat at the end of Chapel until formally dismissed by the speaker.

•           Please do not bring food or drink into the worship center.

•           Please refrain from the use of headphones, laptop computers, pagers and cell phones.

•           Please refrain from talking, studying and otherwise disturbing others around you.

 

Chapel credit may be withdrawn from students making such disturbances.

 

Further Information: Further information regarding transportation to Chapel, weather cancellations and upcoming Chapels can be obtained from the Department of Campus Ministries (Ext. 8441) or on its website www.malone.edu/d43.

 

Church services are provided by churches representing various denominations in the Canton community. Students are encouraged to regularly attend the church of their choice and to involve themselves as much as possible in its worship and service. Church involvement is seen as an important area of development in growing as a mature member of the body of Christ.  A list of area churches is available in  Campus Ministries or on its website www.malone.edu/d43.

 

 

Several Bible studies and small groups are available on campus. Contact the Campus Ministries Dept. for information.

 

 

The Rose Room Chapel on the upper level of the Randall Campus Center is available for private quiet meditation and reflection whenever the building is open. It is not available for group meetings.