Church: Moving Into A Dorm Near You

As growing trend arising out of the University of California at Berkeley, some dormitories are now offering a spiritual connection to the residents on college campuses. At UC Berkeley, the Presbyterian Church renovated the campus ministry building, offering 125 students not only a dorm room, but also bible study, theology classes, and social justice projects.

The movement has been fueled by a rising interest in religion and spirituality among college students and a push by campus ministries to find new sources of revenue to support their programs and to attract more students.

Rev. Randy Bare is the architect behind the Berkeley project and has started a part time consulting business working exclusively on housing projects with non profit ministries and local churches in the area of college campuses. Although the housing projects may be sponsored by outside organizations, they still follow all rules, regulations, and levels of supervision as other campus housing facilities.

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Thank you reverend Bare. His heart is in the right place and I pray he is blessed in his endeavors. Is UC Berkeley still a hotbed of liberalism? While stationed in that area, I happened on to the campus during an anti-war campaign. Never have I been so alarmed to see and hear how those people feel about their government. Freedom brings a very heavy price and we all should support our government in times of war, even if only in an administrative role.

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Major on August 24, 2006 at 09:32 PM

Religious indoctrination is nothing more than bigotry used to divide our society into factions of irrational submissives.

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ER on September 6, 2006 at 07:32 AM

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