Staff

Carolyn Jean Ministry Associate
Jon Magnuson Campus Pastor


Student Leaders

Jenna Geueke
Andrew Foster
Sarah Swanson


Earthkeepers

Kira Fillmore
Sarah Swanson


Board of Directors

Rev. Tim Bernard  
Michael Broadway  
Peter Claybaker Treasurer
Rev. Virginia Eggert  
Rev. Warren Geier Chair
Jackie Greising Secretary
Helen Koski  
Leslie Putman  
Jill Krah Financial Secretary
Jenna Geueke Vice Chair


Our Ministry

We are a spiritual community bound together by a cross and an empty tomb, gentle and respectful of individual freedom and dignity. A creative, thinking, and prophetic community called to lives of celebration, compassion and justice. Quiet servants, opening doors, making connections, supporting one another.

Lothlorien

“Where Time Passes Differently”

The name Lothlorien is a reference to a mythological kingdom in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a linguist and professor of language at Oxford University, a devout Christian, and translator of the New Jerusalem Bible.

Lothlorien is mysterious and powerful, a place of magic. This is not a magic that changes men and women into frogs or turns the grass blue but is a spark that burns deep within the soul. It’s a mystic kingdom that rests in the heart of all truly free people. Lothlorien is full of grace and beauty, a place that its inhabitants seek fiercely to preserve. Lothlorien is a kingdom of gentle goodness, but also hardiness and dignity.

Lothlorien provided a memory of goodness for a tiny Hobbit Frodo Baggins who, along with Gandalf and his faithful companions, was able to save the world with the strength he gathered there.

The Lutheran Campus Ministry selected to name this home Lothlorien with the hope that it will be, for all who pass through, an invitation to imagination and compassion; a place where one will find a hunger for justice in this world. Most of all, we intend this home to be a place of prayer where real issues of life and faith, of what is temporal and what is eternal, will be discerned and honored. Great adventures will be born here. Young men and women will be transformed. This place where time passes differently.

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