Student Organizations
Candler Coordinating Council (C3)
The Candler Coordinating Council (C3) is the student governing body for all chartered organizations at Candler School of Theology. Its purpose is to coordinate activities and budget monies for all organizations, as well as to legislate policies for chartered organizations. The group is composed of representatives elected by student organizations, and various other student constituencies, and appointed representatives including students serving on Candler’s standing committees.
African Methodist Episcopal Connection
The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Connection seeks to provide educational support, networking, spiritual well-being, and a sense of community for students who are members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The Connection's purpose is to encourage Christian witness at Candler by challenging people to recognize the presence of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. In order to achieve this mission, the Connection strives to provide opportunities for Christian fellowship in an environment that seeks to encourage growth and discipleship; encourage students, faculty, and administration to analyze their values and ethical beliefs from a Christian perspective; provide a connecting link between local African Methodist Episcopal churches and students; and develop ways of working together ecumenically with other campus organizations.
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Amigos
Candler has a growing number of Latina/o students from the U.S., Cuba, and Latin America. These students gather periodically for fellowship and reflection on their experiences at Candler. Contextual Education placements in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking congregations are available and encouraged.
Candler Baptist Community
The Candler Baptist Community is a student-led organization that gathers regularly for fellowship and support. The CBC consists of students from several Baptist denominations, and it encourages dialogue among all who share in the Baptist heritage. Periodic luncheons provide an opportunity for conversation and sharing. The purpose of the CBC is fourfold: (1) to provide support for Baptist students preparing for ministry; (2) to provide opportunities for networking and job placement in cooperation with the Baptist Studies Program; (3) to raise awareness of issues of importance that effect Baptist students at Candler; (4) to promote theological education that is enriched and enlivened through ecumenical dialogue and relationships.
Black Student Caucus
The Black Student Caucus was established to sustain and enhance African American identity, awareness, and cohesiveness on the Emory campus and at Candler School of Theology. The Black Student Caucus serves as a support group for African American students and as a context for the study of issues facing African American ministry. Through interest groups such as Sistah Circle and Brother/Man, the Black Student Caucus seeks to foster better communication between all persons through dialogue that promotes respect for and understanding of cultural and religious differences, and the needs relevant to those differences. The Voices of Imani provides the Candler community with a magnificent blend of gospel and contemporary music. Black Student Caucus is open to all.
Candler Children’s Initiative
Candler Children’s Initiative is a group concerned with the state of the world’s children that desires to promote awareness, justice, and mercy for those who truly are among the least. Its desire is to enable the faith community to move beyond the overwhelming nature of the statistics into actions that will affect change on both personal and institutional levels.
Candler Evangelical Society
The Candler Evangelical Society is an interdenominational organization whose purpose is to minister to, support, educate, and reach out to the larger Candler community. CES believes the Bible shapes, expresses, and evokes a transformative faith, which is supreme faith in and patterned after Jesus Christ, especially God’s redemptive activity in Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. CES seeks to explore the richness of the Christian heritage, paying special attention to traditions of the evangelical faith culture. Participants in CES seek to grow spiritually and theologically through an open and appreciative encounter with the broad range of theological positions and concerns found within the Candler community.
Candler International Student Association (CISA)
CISA represents the broad variety of international students within the Candler student body. The students delegate a representative from each country to form the association’s executive committee. The purpose of CISA is to create and encourage a harmonious community for Candler’s students, faculty, and administrators. To this end, CISA aspires to raise awareness of international concerns, provide a forum for discussion of such issues, enable students to share their gifts and talents, and support international students in their academic pursuits at Candler. It is hoped that by participating in and sponsoring activities such as workshops, worship services, community conversations, international lunches, and other special events, CISA will build community. CISA welcomes everyone to be a part of its community.
Candler Women
Candler Women seeks to provide community support and advocacy for women. Candler Women also plans and participates in worship services for women, in Women’s Week activities, and in Women’s History Month, and it promotes the Women’s Program in Theology and Ministry. Candler women cosponsors events with other Candler groups that minister to the whole Candler community and/or support issues of reconciliation and justice. Membership is open to all who are associated with Candler.
Emory Korean Graduate Student Association
Emory Korean Graduate Student Association contributes to the Candler and Emory communities by enriching students’ multicultural, social, and academic experiences. Networking and shared interests in Korean/Korean American ethnicity are supported through this organization.
Graduate Senate
The Graduate Senate is composed of representatives from all of Emory’s graduate and professional schools. The group, which meets monthly, deals with issues of graduate student life, academic and interdisciplinary concerns, and facilities, services, and housing matters. The Graduate Senate sponsors periodic social mixers for all graduate and professional students.
Order of St. Luke
The Order of St. Luke is an ecumenical religious order in the United Methodist Church whose members vow to live the sacramental life and to carry out liturgical scholarship, education, and practice. Along with the Office of Worship, the Order of St. Luke leads Morning Prayer and provides leadership for worship services. Along with the Office of Student Programming, the Order provides for special activities that relate to sacraments and liturgy. The Order meets twice a month to worship together and help in the spiritual formation of its members and friends.
Sacred Worth
Sacred Worth is organized to support the diverse expressions of human love and sexuality among all of God’s children and is committed to acts of justice, education, conversation, and celebration with Candler, Emory University, and the larger community. Sacred Worth hopes to be a prophetic voice challenging institutional practices and personal attitudes that limit the diversity of human sexuality. Sacred Worth welcomes all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual or gender orientation, age, or disability. Sacred Worth supports the full recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and heterosexual persons who feel called to lay or ordained ministry. Sacred Worth seeks to make the community a safer, more loving, and respectful place for all people, regardless of sexual or gender orientation.
Social Concerns Network
The Social Concerns Network (SCN) seeks to support, coordinate, and nurture social actions and activism that emerge from our faith commitments. It promotes the living out of theology in an effort to question and transform political, economic, and social structures in society and the world. Recent activities include participation in protests, letter-writing campaigns, prayer and worship services, a workshop on how to nurture a green university, and direct activism on campus. Group discussions have focused on diverse topics ranging from homeless youth to political involvement in the presidential election to unionization. In general, the people of SCN strive to support justice issues within the Candler community wherever they emerge.