Common Grounds at UVA

01/27/2021

Study hours at Common Grounds are back — with WiFi, free coffee, tea, and snacks, and Covid-19 precautions to help keep you safe!

Please review the available slots below our introductory message and guidelines, and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!   Welcome to Common Grounds!  We are happy to provide a quiet and hospitable space for you to study and participate in classes while continuing to physically distance for...

08/14/2020

Looking for a welcoming community at UVA? Some folks from UKirk (Westminster's Presbyterian Student Fellowship) will be at an online activities fair soon and would love to meet you!

Looking to get involved in a ministry on campus? UKirk is a welcoming community that explores what it means to receive and share divine love, and to live out our faith in a complex world. If you’re interested in learning more or joining, connect with us at clubsatuva.com! We’ll be participating in the online activities fair on Friday, August 28, 12-3pm, where you can find out more about us and how to get involved.

Sign up today to connect with us or more than 300 other student groups (and counting) at UVA. We’ll see you at the online activities fair!

06/04/2020

“In the wake of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Sean Reed, and now George Floyd, it is imperative that we have a conversation about where we, as a society, go from here. It seems there is an overwhelming expectation that Black activists and organizers will say something profound about Black death, but what I have to offer is not some profound truth but a simple request: Take action.” — Charlottesville/UVA student leader Zyahna Bryant

Here’s what you can do.

04/27/2020

Thanks to the Charlottesville Clergy Collective for this collaborative effort to encourage all who are able to help "flatten the curve" of economic suffering in our community!

04/22/2020

Stressed about exams?

TONIGHT - Take Notes, Take Care: Self Care and Getting Through Finals Together - Wednesday, April 22, 2020 | Zoom | 6-7 PM

Join the LGBTQ Center and CAPS for a Zoom discussion about self care and getting through online classes together! We’ll share academic resources, discuss self care strategies, and talk about how to stay connected and support each other. Registration is required for this event.

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Join the LGBTQ Center and CAPS for a Zoom discussion about self care and getting through online classes together! We’ll share academic resources, discuss self care strategies, and talk about how to stay connected and support each other.

03/18/2020

If you are facing food insecurity during this time of disruption, this resource is available for you.

If you need someone to listen and hold space for you as the current crisis prompts spiritual anxieties and questions, I'm here for you. Email [email protected], and we'll find time to talk via phone, FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, Google Hangout or another way to be in social solidarity during this time of physical distancing!

UVA Community Food Pantry (CFP) is a resource to help prevent food insecurity throughout the UVA community.

03/12/2020

Friends, with the recent decision of UVA to move to online classes following Spring Break, we are postponing The Border Is Here workshop on April 5. We hope to offer this dynamic learning opportunity in the future. In the meantime, we are holding you in prayer during the uncertainty related to the coronavirus.

As you wash your hands regularly, follow other CDC precautions, and practice social distancing as appropriate, we hope you are able to stay well in a holistic sense, too. Please feel free to reach out to Dorothy with any pastoral concerns for which you would appreciate support!

Blessing in the Chaos

To all that is chaotic in you,
let there come silence.

Let there be
a calming
of the clamoring,
a stilling
of the voices that
have laid their claim
on you,
that have made their
home in you,

that go with you
even to the
holy places
but will not
let you rest,
will not let you
hear your life
with wholeness
or feel the grace
that fashioned you...

Let there be
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find
the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm.

—Jan Richardson

03/10/2020

If you're interested in delving into U.S. immigration issues, consider signing up for The Border Is Here: An Immersive Workshop on the Lived Experience of Immigration! You'll learn from stories and interactive presentations by UVA students, a historian at JMU, and the Cville Immigrant Freedom Fund's Executive Director.

An Immersive Workshop on the Lived Experience of Immigration Sunday, April 5, 2020, 1:15–5 PM Westminster Presbyterian Church, Library 400 Rugby Road, Charlottesville, VA Instructors: Natalie Romero and Jennifer Kang, fourth-year students in Global Development Studies at UVA, with William Van Nor...

02/01/2020

Friends, we don't know how the football game will turn out, but the FREE food game is gonna be on point!

Our Super Bowl party is tomorrow, and I can't wait!

Whomever you're cheering for, we have the winning team: FREE food, a big screen, and good people.

Check out the details:

- Drop in whenever, beginning at 6 p.m.
- 480 Rugby Rd. (corner of Gordon & Rugby)
- Tailgating classics: catered wings and sides, chili, cheddar biscuits, buffalo chicken dip, and more

Students from the Wesley Foundation will be there. Join us, and feel free to bring friends!