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Manna's Programming

Manna's Programming

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Manna Large Group is one of our main events where students gather to worship, pray, hear staff share a message from scripture, discuss the message in friendly/casual small groups (what we call Kind Conversations), and fellowship over food afterward. Join us every Saturday at 7:30PM in East Pyne 010 (L level)!

Manna's class small groups meet at various points during the week, and are designed to nuture our relationships with God, talk about the Bible and how it relates to our lives, care and pray for one another, and get to know folks in our class better.

  • Freshmen study the curriculum God is Weaving Shalom Throughout the Earth: The Missional Storyline of the Bible, tracing Scripture’s plotline from Genesis to Revelation in order to grasp as widely as possible the unfolding story God’s writing for the world so that we can better understand the role we play in it.
  • Sophomores study Cruciformity: The Blessed Life According Jesus (in Luke’s Gospel) to see more concretely how Jesus, through his kingdom, blesses all of creation as the centerpiece of God’s ongoing mission of blessing, restoring, and renewing all things, including us.
  • Juniors take up the curriculum Divine Wisdom for a Life of Shalom: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes to invite us into seeing that God doesn’t evade but takes up head-on the perplexities of life as part of his mission to bless, heal, restore, and renew all things.
  • Seniors engage Living in Jesus’ Upside-Down Kingdom: Themes from James and First Peter to deepen their grasp and participation in God’s mission of shalom via Jesus' cross and resurrection, into realites such as wealth and poverty, suffering and persecution, and loving across differences.

Freshmen small group (FSG) meets every Tuesday at 4:30-6:00PM in Murray Dodge 104. Upperclassmen small groups meet throughout the week—check our Linktree or Slack for details!

Prayer Meetings provide space for us to join together in community prayer through daily prayer meetings hosted by students in order to build unity and foster fellowship while bringing our concerns before God. We meet Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 4:30-5:00PM in East Pyne 027. We also meet for Early Morning Prayer (EMP) every Friday at 8:00-9:00AM in Frist 210.

Discipleship Groups are composed of 4-6 people including two leaders (undergrads and staff members) whose aim is for student participants to grow in being invested in one another's spiritual growth through accountability with spiritual disciplines, to learn about and follow Jesus, and to work together to love and serve our neighbors on and off campus.

One-on-ones are formed between staff and students to help facilitate students' personal growth in Christ by meeting together (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or ad hoc) in a friendly, supportive context to hear and process together what's on your mind, pray together, and/or talk about scripture's relevance to your life.

If you are interested in being part of a Discipleship Group or a 1:1 with staff, email us at manna@princeton.edu.

Manna hosts Public Lectures with speakers who address topics of public interest from a Christian point of view, including most recently . . . 

  • Our public lecture The Anti-Greed Gospel with Dr. Malcolm Foley on what it means to follow Jesus, and resist Mammon/greed, in the way we bear economic witness to the gospel of the kingdom.

Topical discussions, called Pop-Ups, provide space for us to discuss thoughtfully and through a Christian lens topics relevant to our lives and our context.

Feel free to email us (gsackett@princeton.edu or dguy@princeton.edu) if you have any questions, as well as to get more information about our unofficial and often-spontaneous hangouts, pick-up basketball games, and other forms of fellowship.