The PCM office at G-24 Anabel Taylor Hall will run in accordance to safety protocols.
Our office is typically open Tuesdays and Fridays, please email for an appointment.
Email: Quinn at qgc1@cornell.edu
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2023-2024 Programs
Opportunities for worship, fellowship, growth, and fun
The Community Gathers
The PCM Community is a rich community of students, both undergrads and grads, who may have been participants in a Christian community earlier in life, or may only be exploring now. Borrowing the language of one of our supporting denominations we say, “Whoever you are, and wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.”
Sundays
10 AM Choir Rehearsal – Here in the chapel!
Our choir rehearses the anthem for the day each week, right before the service. We will have a light breakfast available each week for the choir.
Please sign up on the clipboard outside if you would like to be kept informed, and let us know what part you sing (if you know.) (SATB) We would like our choir to be open to everyone, whether you’ve sung in a choir before or not. We like to say it is for the “musically sincere, if not necessarily gifted.”
11 AM Worship – Anabel Taylor Chapel
12 Coffeeless Coffee Hour –We all gather across the hall in the Founders’ Room for food and conversation.
Spring 2024
Tight Sixty on….
March 5th, March 12th, March 19th and March 26th at 5pm in ATH.
SERVICE DAY
Friday, March 22nd 11am-2:30pm
Join us serving meals at Loaves & Fishes!
Feb. 16th: Progressive Dinner
Join PCM, The Episcopal Church of Cornell, and St. Luke Lutheran Church for a campus-spanning culinary odyssey! RSVP: HERE
Ash Wednesday Feb. 14th 7pm ATH
BLAZE: Discernment Retreat
February 9-10th at The Inns of Aurora, contact Quinn qgc1@cornell.edu for more details.
Fall 2023 Retreat
Casowasco, September 8th & 9th
SERVICE DAY
Friday, September 29, 5:30-7:30 PM
We will pack meal kits for Feed My Starving Children.
ITHACA FARMERS’ MARKET
Saturday Aug.19th @ 10:30am
The quintessential Ithaca experience! Veg, prepared foods, local products, and more. We’ll take you there and back. Meet at ATH.
2022-2023 Programs
Opportunities for worship, fellowship, growth, and fun
The Community Gathers
The PCM Community is a rich community of students, both undergrads and grads, who may have been participants in a Christian community earlier in life, or may only be exploring now. Borrowing the language of one of our supporting denominations we say, “Whoever you are, and wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.”
Sundays
10 AM Choir Rehearsal – Here in the chapel!
Our choir rehearses the anthem for the day each week, right before the service. We will have a light breakfast available each week for the choir.
Please sign up on the clipboard outside if you would like to be kept informed, and let us know what part you sing (if you know.) (SATB) We would like our choir to be open to everyone, whether you’ve sung in a choir before or not. We like to say it is for the “musically sincere, if not necessarily gifted.”
11 AM Worship – Anabel Taylor Chapel
12 Coffeeless Coffee Hour –We all gather across the hall in the Founders’ Room for food and conversation.
BOOK GROUP
Tuesdays, Oct 18th-Nov 8th 6-7:30 pm
We’ll be reading This Here Flesh, by Cornell-affiliated Cole Arthur Riley. Books and snacks provided!
SERVICE DAY
Thursday, Nov. 10th 4:45-7:45pm
Join us serving meals at Loaves & Fishes!
INTERFAITH BRUNCH
Tues Oct. 4, 11:30-12:30
Anabel Taylor 230 (Auditorium)
Join students of many faiths for food, and for light conversation about important things.
SERVICE DAY
Saturday, Oct. 1, 7-9 PM
We will pack meal kits for Feed My Starving Children.
NATURE Rx @CORNELL
Nature Heals
A short stint in nature can improve almost every level of functioning in your daily life. Google “Nature Rx @Cornell” for a list of walks, secret gardens, greenhouses that can help you hack your brain and body.
CONFERENCE
Thus-Sun, Sept 15-18
“A New Heaven and a New Earth,” Princeton University.
TODAY, August 28th: CHOOSE A HIKE
After worship and food are all cleaned up, we’ll pick a gorge and take a hike.
ITHACA FARMERS’ MARKET
Saturday the 3rd @ 10:30am
The quintessential Ithaca experience! Veg, prepared foods, local products, and more. We’ll take you there and back. Meet at ATH.
2021-2022 Programs
Services will resume August 28, 2022
Spring Semester 2022
Opportunities for worship, fellowship, growth, and fun
The Community Gathers
The PCM Community is a rich community of students, both undergrads and grads, who may have been participants in a Christian community earlier in life, or may only be exploring now. Borrowing the language of one of our supporting denominations we say, “Whoever you are, and wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.”
Sundays
10 AM Choir Rehearsal – Here in the chapel!
Our choir rehearses the anthem for the day each week, right before the service. We will have a light breakfast available each week for the choir.
Please sign up on the clipboard outside if you would like to be kept informed, and let us know what part you sing (if you know.) (SATB) We would like our choir to be open to everyone, whether you’ve sung in a choir before or not. We like to say it is for the “musically sincere, if not necessarily gifted.”
11 AM Worship
12 Coffeeless Coffee Hour
In typical years, we would all gather across the hall in the Founders’ Room for food and conversation. We are slowly easing back into normal practices, and invite you across the hall to grab a drink and a small snack. Please continue to wear your mask unless you are eating or drinking.
Wednesdays 8:30 – 8:45 AM Morning Prayer
We have moved our weekly prayer time online. Each and every Wednesday at 8:30 AM, join us for Morning Prayer over Zoom.
PCM Book Group (Time TBA)
PCM Book Group this semester will discuss Rachel Held Evans’ book, Wholehearted Faith. Evans was regarded as one of the freshest young Christian voices in America today when she passed away suddenly in 2019. Her friend Jeff Chu helped to pull these essays together in their final form. If you’d like to join our weekly conversations, email Taryn (tbh2) for a copy of the book.
“A touching series of essays in which Held Evans, with Chu’s invisible pen, explores how one might find a path forward in Christianity beyond conservative evangelicalism” — The New Yorker
“Wholehearted Faith…feels nothing short of radical.”– The Washington Post
“Like all of her work, [Wholehearted Faith] is warm, wise, and intimate. . . . Evans doesn’t shame the ignorant. She delights us into knowledge on the way to wisdom. . . . “– The Christian Century
Special Events
Ash Wednesday Service– Wednesday, March 2 at 7 PM here in the Chapel.
This service marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 day period leading to Easter.
The PCM Thanksgiving luncheon is another tradition we had to adapt this year. Typically our
governing board provides a huge meal right after worship on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
Because we couldn’t do that this fall, we’re postponing the luncheon. But please watch your email for a
special surprise we hope you can share with a friend.
PCM’s Service Retreat
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Protestant students from Cornell boarded an ocean liner and took off to spend the summer supporting a massive airlift delivering food, water and medicine to the citizens of Berlin. Since that trip, PCM has spent a week of every year in a meaningful week of volunteer service. In recent years we’ve been to San Antonio, Texas, to work with church organizations who are supporting immigrants, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to help with home repairs, and to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, after devastating floods. We had to cancel our plans for last year’s trip to Puerto Rico, but we are hoping conditions may a shorter trip later in the year. Stay tuned!
There are more plans for special events as the year continues, be sure you’ve signed up for our e-list so you will receive weekly updates!
Protestant Cooperative Ministry
And find us on Facebook “Protestant Cooperative Ministry at Cornell”
Fall Semester 2021: Opportunities for worship, fellowship, growth, and fun
The Community Gathers
The PCM Community is a rich community of students, both undergrads and grads, who may have been participants in a Christian community earlier in life, or may only be exploring now. Borrowing the language of one of our supporting denominations, we say, “Whoever you are, and wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.”
Sundays
10 AM Choir Rehearsal (and light breakfast)
Because of Covid restrictions put in place early this semester, our choir has not be able to sing. With a new ventilation system in place, we are slowly reintroducing music back into worship. We understand the need to protect our community and we look forward to the eventual return of our choir and full congregational singing. Stay tuned!
11 AM Worship
The PCM community gathers every week here while classes are in session.
12 NOON Coffeeless Coffee Hour
In typical years, we would all gather across the hall in the Founders’ Room for food and conversation. But as we ease slowly back into normal practices, join us outdoors for cold drinks and conversation.
Some weeks PCM holds discussions or invites special speakers in that hour, and when we do, there will always be a light lunch available.
Wednesdays
8:30 – 8:45 AM Morning Prayer (beginning September 22nd)
Here in the ATH Chapel. And we often take quick trips after for bagels at the Law School.
6:30-7:30 “Always a Beginner: Learning to Pray” PCM Reading/Discussion Group
September 22nd. Please sign up on the clipboard or via email, location TBA.
A chance to talk about what faith means to you, and to learn from the experience of others, on the page and around our table. Sign up on the clipboard outside after the service and we’ll be in touch. We’ll plan to begin this Wednesday. Location TBA.
This semester we’ll use James Martin’s Learning to Pray as a reference book while we explore different approaches to prayer. As you navigate the ups and downs of a spiritual life, we’ll learn about anduioppracticeu as many as a dozen different ways to pray.
About Martin’s book:
“A smart, wise, often side-splittingly funny master class in seeking God.”uiop“This pracaytical and delightful read is truly for everyone. It’s reassuring to hear that our moments of pausing, listening and being grateful are all versions of prayer. This book allows us to stay with such moments and allow them to change us for the better.”
Participants will also receive a copy of Sarah Bessey’s Rhythm of Prayer
Special Events
PCM Day Retreat! Saturday, October 2, 9:00-4:30 PM at Lake Casowasco
This is a beautiful spot and if the weather allows, we’ll be able to use kayaks, canoes
and their swimming beach. The cost of the day will be $25, which will include breakfast
at the Ithaca Farmers Market and lunch at the retreat center. Sign up on the clipboard or email today!
The Apple Festival in Ithaca is also this weekend, but will take place both Saturday and
Sunday, so there is opportunity to do both!
PCM’s Service Retreat
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Protestant students from Cornell boarded an ocean liner and took off to spend the summer supporting a massive airlift delivering food, water and medicine to the citizens of Berlin. Since that trip, PCM has spent a week of every year in a meaningful week of volunteer service. In recent years we’ve been to San Antonio, Texas, to work with church organizations who are supporting immigrants, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to help with home repairs, and to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, after devastating floods. We had to cancel our plans for last
year’s trip to Puerto Rico, but we are hoping to be able to get there this year over Spring Break, or if we’re unable to travel far, to find another project this year. Stay tuned!
There are more plans for special events as the semester continues, be sure you’ve signed up for our e-list so you will receive weekly updates!
For more information visit The Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making.
Contact Information
Email: protestant_coop@cornell.edu
On campus: 548 College Ave., G-24 Anabel Taylor Hall
Mailing Address
PO Box 7052
Ithaca, NY 14851
This organization is a registered student organization of Cornell University.