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When & Where
Sundays at 12PM
House Church locations
What's House Church?
At Campus Light, our Sunday gatherings look a bit different — we meet in homes near Rutgers campus (5-10 min drive). When we were in college, a lot of us fell in love with the vision of the early church in Acts 2 — a group of people intensely devoted to word, fellowship, and prayer, meeting "in their homes" and sharing a meal together.
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And in Jesus' own ministry, we see him not only addressing larger crowds, but we see him engaging in close, life-on-life discipleship with a smaller group. Our vision is to disciple, equip, and mobilize college students to love God, love people, and to reach their campuses for Christ.
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Check out our Instagram for a closer look at what a Sunday at Campus Light looks like!
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a big change for us this year — for 9 years now we've done the more traditional church service reaching college students here at Rutgers. But we're struck by the vibrancy and potency of the early church — they gathered both in larger groups and in homes. They were devoted to scripture, shared meals, prayed together, and became part of one another’s everyday lives (Acts 2:42-47). And remarkably, the "Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved."
We're trying to follow that same pattern. House church gives us a smaller setting where we can know each other well, talk honestly about life, celebrate steps of obedience, and learn how to follow Jesus beyond a Sunday service. In the home we can also make pourover coffee, BBQ in the backyard, and hangout after church too! Many of us were saved in college and our passion is to reach college students, and we believe that spiritual formation happens best in community.After coming up our front steps, you'll be likely greeted by a rowdy group of college students and staff volunteers hanging out in the living room, people jamming on a guitar and cajon in another corner of the room, and some people cooking up a storm for lunch. We often start church with sharing stories from the past week and maybe a time of singing praise songs and/or hymns together.
Some weeks we'll do training on inductive bible study and learning to feed yourself through the word, other weeks we'll get equipped to answer tough questions about the faith. Sometimes we'll memorize scripture or be addressed by a message in the word. We'll have plenty of times of discussion, sharing, and prayer too. After church is chill as we take down and hang out — maybe we'll go to campus or a nearby park and play some sports!It's a college church and we're meeting in homes, be casual! But we like to play sports, so wear something comfortable.
Our emphasis will be on Christian discipleship, but anyone is welcome to attend!
If you don't have a spiritual background we invite you to come and take a peek at what Christians believe and do!
We meet for bigger gatherings around once a month. This semester we'll have 4-5 larger Sunday gatherings at the beginning of the semester (first 2 weeks), to celebrate bigger holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and to do a baptism service as well.
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For large gatherings we will always meet at Lucy Stone Auditorium on Livi campus.
We're glad that you love gathering for worship. We believe large group worship is powerful, and we'll gather corporately a few times a semester. However, we recognize that a familiar, Sunday corporate gathering is preferred for many. If so, we know of other good churches in the area that we would love to connect you with.