OUR CHAPLAIN, OUR PEER MINISTERS, OUR GOVERNING BOARD
OUR CHAPLAIN, The Rev. Barbara Heck
It takes a team of people working together to make a vibrant campus ministry. Leading the way is the Rev. Barbara Heck who has served Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministries since 2001.
Our life together at Rutgers is about being a smaller community in the midst of the larger Rutgers community. Trinity House is wide open space in which to meet other people and grow into the authority that Jesus has in mind for each student. It is a place to ask bigger questions and awaken to the dream that God has for the world. Together, we discern God's truth and follow the movement of the Spirit into the vocation God has in mind of us, into our identity which we will know better through Jesus, into places around us in need of hope and grace and love.
Barbara started out in campus ministry with the Protestant Cooperative Ministry at Cornell. She served Maple and Teston United Churches of the United Church of Canada. She moved on to serve as Interfaith Coordinator at Occidental College as well as assisted the Westminster Foundation at Princeton University before landing happily at Rutgers. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors in German from University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing a honors thesis on peace activities in East Germany and the role of the Lutheran Church. She received her Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago during which time she did an internship at Westhampton Presbyterian Church.. When she isn't working at Rutgers, she rows with the Carnegie Lake Association or is found painting in oils with her teacher, Gregory Perkel and a beloved community of students..
Barbara can be reached at revheck at gmail.com or (609) 273-1349.
Our life together at Rutgers is about being a smaller community in the midst of the larger Rutgers community. Trinity House is wide open space in which to meet other people and grow into the authority that Jesus has in mind for each student. It is a place to ask bigger questions and awaken to the dream that God has for the world. Together, we discern God's truth and follow the movement of the Spirit into the vocation God has in mind of us, into our identity which we will know better through Jesus, into places around us in need of hope and grace and love.
Barbara started out in campus ministry with the Protestant Cooperative Ministry at Cornell. She served Maple and Teston United Churches of the United Church of Canada. She moved on to serve as Interfaith Coordinator at Occidental College as well as assisted the Westminster Foundation at Princeton University before landing happily at Rutgers. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors in German from University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing a honors thesis on peace activities in East Germany and the role of the Lutheran Church. She received her Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago during which time she did an internship at Westhampton Presbyterian Church.. When she isn't working at Rutgers, she rows with the Carnegie Lake Association or is found painting in oils with her teacher, Gregory Perkel and a beloved community of students..
Barbara can be reached at revheck at gmail.com or (609) 273-1349.
OUR PEER MINISTERS
Benjamin T. Berman, Music Minister
Ben is completing his Masters in Voice Performance this year in the Mason Gross School of the Arts. He graduated with his Bachelors of Music from Rutgers in 2010. He is the director of the Trinity House Bach Society.
In addition to leading us in worship through music on Monday nights, he is the Organist and Choir Director for First Reformed Church of New Brunswick on Sunday mornings. He can be reached at bberman2 at eden.rutgers.edu.
In addition to leading us in worship through music on Monday nights, he is the Organist and Choir Director for First Reformed Church of New Brunswick on Sunday mornings. He can be reached at bberman2 at eden.rutgers.edu.
Taylor O. Barger '14, Community Peer Minister
Taylor is the President of Trinity House Student Organization. She is a lot of fun, is interested in meeting new students and is a great organizer. She is exploring Africana Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and Women & Gender Studies as potential majors. She is a part of the Douglass Residential College here at Rutgers and am in the LEAD House this year. This past summer, she worked as a camp counselor at Camp Matollionequay, a YMCA camp in South Jersey. She can be reached at tbarger at eden.rutgers.edu
Juli Gerdes, '14 Treasurer
Juli came to us as a first year student, found us at the Student Involvement Fair, came to worship on the first day we gathered and has stayed ever since. Her commitment is an inspiration! She loves to sail and lives in Brett.
Marlana Moore '13, Community Peer Minister
Marlana is an art history major. She lives off campus. She can be reached at marlanagracemoore at gmail.com
Leonora Slatnick '12, Community Peer Minister
Leonora runs our Thursday Night Spirituality Group at Trinity House. She is a pre-med students who is plays on Rutgers' Tennis Team and hails from Austin, Texas.
She writes "I have really enjoyed getting to know people through the church and through Trinity House events such as Midnight Run and Thursday lunches, and I think it provides a great atmosphere that encourages students to really get to know each other as people rather than just going out and partying together. I think everyone that has come to bible studies, etc. realize that it is a very accepting and non-judgmental environment that provides for great understanding of other people rather than forcing our own beliefs."
Leonora can be reached at lslatnick at yahoo.com.
She writes "I have really enjoyed getting to know people through the church and through Trinity House events such as Midnight Run and Thursday lunches, and I think it provides a great atmosphere that encourages students to really get to know each other as people rather than just going out and partying together. I think everyone that has come to bible studies, etc. realize that it is a very accepting and non-judgmental environment that provides for great understanding of other people rather than forcing our own beliefs."
Leonora can be reached at lslatnick at yahoo.com.
Matt D'Elia '12, Peer Minister for Political Action
Matt studies history and political science. When Rutgers canceled their summer abroad in Japan, Matt had the faith to go ahead to Japan anyway. He is recently returned and ready to jump into action. He will help the Trinity House community connect with groups like Amnesty International. Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Bread for the World. Matt can be reached at mattamo at gmail.com.
Nicolette Cobbald '12, Peer Minister for Community Service
Nicolette studies public health. She came to us last year hungry for the group of Christians peers that she never had in high school, and she has been well fed ever since! She is active in RU's Warm Heart and will help us to connect our campus ministry to this organization.
Andrew Foltz-Morrison '13, Peer Minister for Communication
Andrew is a double major in geography and philosophy. This past summer, he worked as an Eco-Steward Intem at Krisland Cam in· Madisonburg, Pennsylvania. He recently redesigned the Trinity House logo and will be working throughout the year to help us get the word out about Trinity House and our activities on campus.
Andrew can be reached at thefomo at gmail.com
Andrew can be reached at thefomo at gmail.com
Our Governing Board
Five denominations work together in order for Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministries to hold open its doors at Trinity House.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Amy Chilcoat, Jeff Eaton, Andrew Larsen
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A): Beth Tanner, vacant, vacant
Reformed Church in America: Judy Chibarro, Chris Jacobsen, Felicia O'Shea
United Church of Christ: Doug Brown, Joyce Phipps, Delores Watson
American Baptist Churches: Luciano Marquez, Amaury Tañón-Santos, Tamara Davis
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Amy Chilcoat, Jeff Eaton, Andrew Larsen
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A): Beth Tanner, vacant, vacant
Reformed Church in America: Judy Chibarro, Chris Jacobsen, Felicia O'Shea
United Church of Christ: Doug Brown, Joyce Phipps, Delores Watson
American Baptist Churches: Luciano Marquez, Amaury Tañón-Santos, Tamara Davis
