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Information regarding the College’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report can be obtained at www.gettysburg.edu/safety
or by calling DPS. This report provides information related to the College’s safety and security policies along with the most recent three years’ worth of campus crime and fire statistics.
Public Safety Building Phone: (717) 337-6911 Hours: 24 hours a day
Religious & Spiritual Life
The Center for Religious & Spiritual Life is directed by the Rev. Dr. Kristin Johnston Largen, an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Gettysburg is a college of the ELCA). She serves as the Associate Dean for Religious and Spiritual Life/College Chaplain.
The Center has an explicit ecumenical and interfaith focus, and seeks to support the intellectual, spiritual, and moral formation of all students at Gettysburg College. The Center is in a newly renovated house with an interfaith prayer space, a kosher-style kitchen, and a wudu station, in addition to spaces for meetings, discussions, and meals.
The Center has three major areas of emphasis: hospitality, education, and interfaith friendship. Through a variety of offerings and events, including study of sacred texts, presentations, movie nights, and meals, students learn more about each other, come together to relax and be restored, and engage issues of faith, justice, and religious practice. The Center partners with many other College offices.
Multiple opportunities for worship, prayer, and meditation occur throughout the week, and a variety of religious holiday celebrations from many different faith traditions take place throughout the year.
For specific information, refer to the Religious and Spiritual Life website and the sites of individual groups.
Student groups with a religious focus include:
• Newman Association/Catholic Campus Ministries
• DiscipleMakers Christian Fellowship
• Hillel
• Muslim Student Association
• The Interfaith Council
Center for Religious & Spiritual Life Phone: (717) 337-6280
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