Chitra Kovoor (chitra.kovoor@christianunion.org) and Michael Racine (michael.racine@christianunion.org) are our Ministry Fellows. Our student leaders are Luke Bell (Pierson ’23), Maddie Bartels (Trumbull ’23), and Tiana Luo (Stiles ’24). If you have any questions and/or would like to meet up with them, you can reach them at luke.bell@yale.edu, maddie.bartels@yale.edu, and tiana.luo@yale.edu.
Christian Union Lux is a Christian fellowship and undergraduate organization at Yale University. As a child organization of Christian Union, CU Lux inherits our shared mission of transforming our nation and world by developing and connecting bold Christian leaders. We hope to carry out our mission through a strong curriculum focused on saturating every student in the Word of God and a lifestyle of seeking fervently after Christ. For more information, explore our website at https://culux.org!
The James W.C. Pennington Center has been significantly strengthening Christian witness and influence at Yale since 2014. Located at 31 Whitney Avenue, we are one block from Timothy Dwight Hall and two blocks from Cross Campus. The real gem is located on the basement level of the building, where the student Ministry House (affectionately nicknamed “The Mouse”) hosts our Bible Courses, Rooted, social events, and prayer sessions. It is often frequented by students studying, cooking, or having a quiet prayer time.
Bible Courses: Divided by class year and gender, BCs are small groups where we have in-depth Bible study, fellowship with each other, and grow in Christ together. Please check our website for updated meeting times!
Rooted: Rooted is a leadership lecture series that happens every other Friday night. This is a time of worship and a time to listen to one of our Ministry Fellows or a guest speaker give a talk or lead a discussion that aims to grow us in knowledge and confidence, and equip us for leadership in any field where God may call us. This is followed by a Q&A or small group session. Dinner is usually served at the Mouse from 6–6:30 pm, when we also hang out, do icebreaker games, and sing worship songs. The program is from 6:30–8pm. We encourage you to come and also invite friends and suitemates!
Social Events: Be it prayer and fasting weekends, CU Study Hall, East Rock hike, games and comedy night, 3D Mafia, women’s brunch or men’s quesadilla night, we are always hosting various fun activities as opportunities to build friendships and serve each other! Keep an eye out for these in our weekly newsletter.
Outreach Events: Our outreach leaders spearhead CU’s commitment to honoring Christ and loving people by boldly proclaiming His love for us and the good news of what He has done for the world. Outreach events every year look different, but may include facilitating one-on-one evangelistic conversations, innovative group events for spiritual exploration and broad distribution of Christian literature across campus. Reach out to get involved!