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We gather for worship and conversation every Wednesday @5:15pm in the MIT Chapel. After worship we eat dinner together, usually a home cooked meal served in the dining room in W11. For more information, contact the Rev. Andrew Heisen. (See contact information below.)

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blessings for coming out week

On Wednesday of this week, LEM will join with the Vineyard Campus Fellowship and the Protestant Student Community to celebrate a Service of Blessing with the LGBTQ Community and Allies. This will be a service of song and celebration for the many and wondrous ways human gender and sexuality are expressed. We will hold the service in the normal place (the Main Dining Room of W11), but it won’t start until 5:30. Of course, we will also celebrate our fellowship over dinner in the Community Room of W11.

While everyone is invited to participate in this service, it will not include a Eucharist. If LEM is the primary setting in which you receive the Eucharist, here is a list of four other services that will help you worship in that way. Two services are in the middle of the day and two are in the evening. From experience, you would be most welcome at any of these services.

Christ Church (Episcopal) in Harvard Square has a half-hour Eucharist at 12:10 PM.
SSJE (Episcopal monks) on the river near Harvard Square holds a Eucharist service at 12:30 PM.
St. Peter’s (Episcopal), just up Mass Ave past City Hall, holds a Contemplative Eucharist at 6:00 PM. Dinner follows and many people stay for a discussion at 7:30.
The Church of the Advent (Episcopal/Anglo-Catholic) in Beacon Hill has a healing service at 6:00 PM.

In other news, Isaac has invited us to participate in the Crossing’s All Hallows’ Eve Eve service. It will be on Thursday, October 30, at 6:00 PM. Everyone is invited to come dressed as their favorite saint, past, present or future. It will be fun and thought-provoking, based on the saints represented last year. And you’ll still have time to go trick or treating on Friday. Score!

Support Our Ministry

We are grateful for the support of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the New England Synod of the ELCA. We also rely on alumni and friends for a great deal of our funding. Do you want to help provide spiritual formation, a strong community, and healthy meals to students at MIT?

Yes! I want to make a contribution to the Lutheran Chaplaincy at MIT.

Yes! I want to make a contribution to the Episcopal Chaplaincy at MIT.

Lutheran Chaplin

Rev. Andrew C. Heisen
617-999-9796
heisen@mit.edu

Pastor Andrew Heisen (he/him) has been serving as the Lutheran (ELCA) chaplain at MIT since 2019. He grew up in New York and New England, spending six summers working on staff at Calumet Lutheran Camp in Ossippee, NH. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating with degrees in music composition and computer sciennce. This led to four years of working in Johnson & Johnson’s IT “Advanced Technology Research” division and two years as a bartender before attending the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and then Andover Newton Theological School, from which he received a Master’s Degree in Divinity. Before becoming a chaplain at MIT, Pastor Heisen served for seven years as pastor in Shrewsbury, MA, where he now lives with his wife and two children. His interests include ecumenical and interfaith cooperation, creativity in fostering communities of faith, teaching, spiritual discernment, music, and social justice.

Episcopal Chaplain

Rev. Kevin Vetiac
kvet246@mit.edu

Kevin Vetiac (he/they) is a Boston native with years of ministerial and higher education experience. Kevin graduated from the Boston University School of Theology with a Master of Divinity degree. Recently ordained a transitional deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Kevin has a big heart for ecumenical ministry and college chaplaincy. Kevin also has a deep love for music and served as the Music Director of The Crossing at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Downtown Boston for six years. Kevin also served as the Cathedral Administrator for three years. Kevin is thrilled to join the Lutheran Episcopal Ministry at MIT and looks forward to continuing the work of creating inclusive and liberating Christian spaces for college students.