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What we do

Campus Ministry at Saint Martin’s University accompanies and supports you as you explore and grow spiritually through experiences that are rooted in our core values of faith, reason, service and community. Together with our monastic community, student affairs and academic partners, community-based volunteer and immersion service opportunities, we are dedicated to hospitality for all without exception, as we promote and share the many gifts flowing from our Benedictine charism and Catholic faith.

Contact Information

campusministry@stmartin.edu

360-688-2820

Harned Hall 109 & 111

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Mission

Welcoming all as Christ, Saint Martin’s University Office of Campus Ministry nurtures faith through authentic relationships that embody listening, prayer, discernment, worship and service for the flourishing of all.

Values

Faith: we champion active faith lives through prayer and conversatio at the heart of all we do [RB 58]
Community: striving to live radical hospitality, we foster respectful and purposeful community seeking the common good of all marked by joy, peace and fullness of life [RB 53]
Action: we cultivate dynamic engagement with the essentials of a life well lived, especially contemplative reflection, worship of God, and service to others [RB 35]
Relationships: we promote healthy, healing, humble, person-centered relationships that embrace love, humor and authenticity as our standard and goal [RB 4]
Heart: our Catholic beliefs and Benedictine charism inspire us to pursue the flourishing of the whole person, promoting human dignity without judgement for God’s purpose and the good of all in this sacred place [RB 72]

"Through faith, with love, to serve."

Fr. Peter reads in religious robes to a semicircle of students with bowed heads

Prayer and worship

Join us for our weekly events during fall and spring Semesters

Sunday at 1:30 p.m. - Reconciliation, Abbey Church

Sunday at 2 p.m. - Sunday Mass, Abbey Church

Monday-Friday at 4:45 p.m. - Daily Mass, Abbey Church

Monday-Thursday 8:30-10:30 a.m. - Free coffee with Campus Ministry, Old Main 316

Monastic Hours and Mass - Daily, Abbey Church, click this link for the current schedule

Weekly opportunities

Coffee, donuts and fellowship
Rosary Group
Faith Sharing
Adoration
Women's Group
Bible Study

Students in aprons serve food in a line at community kitchen

Serve the community

Year-round volunteer opportunities for service with our community:

Community Kitchen

Saint Martin's University Farm

Thurston County Food Bank

Advocacy, learning and service opportunities with our university CRS Chapter (Catholic Relief Services). Fill out the Catholic Relief Services interest form.

Learn more about service and community engagement at Saint Martin's

Saint Martin's students pose outside of the Dolores Mission during their spring break immersion trip in 2023 — SMU students on spring break immersion in front of Dolores Mission, Los Angeles

Service Immersion experiences with Saint Martin's

Saint Martin's students explore new horizons through relationships with others in vulnerable communities through service immersions. During the fall semester, students have the opportunity to attend an independent trip to Seattle and visit various Catholic social services. During the spring semester, students take part in a course bound trip by enrolling in ED495: Social Justice in Action to learn about service in preparation for spring break immersions in Los Angeles at Homeboy Industries/Dolores Mission and in Tacoma at L'Arche Tahoma Hope. They explore complex issues, build strong relationships and are forever impacted on their ongoing journey of becoming. Contact us to learn more.