The time is ripe for a Christian Study Center at The Ohio State University.

Carmen House Christian Study Center seeks to provide a hospitable place for the OSU community to explore deep questions about the Christian faith in relation to learning, vocation, and human flourishing. We seek to be a greenhouse for Christian spiritual formation, demonstrating the vitality and wisdom of the Christian faith for the life of the university.

We are a non-profit that intends to one day operate out of a beautiful facility on the doorstep of the university.

Wisconsin, Illinois, and even Michigan? It’s time for OSU.

Christian Study Centers are being developed at universities across the country, and now at several Big Ten campuses. We are on the cusp of being a significant resource to OSU and the campus community, but it will not come to fruition without the financial support of ministry partners.

What is a Christian Study Center?

It isn’t a traditional campus ministry, nor a campus church. It isn’t a Christian college, and it isn’t just a spot to go to study. So what is it?

  • Carmen House believes that Jesus Christ is not merely a historical figure in human history, nor merely a means to a feeling of assurance of a desired afterlife. Though it may be as radical an idea as ever, we have been convinced that God has become a human being and has been revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. With the apostle Paul we seek to see the preeminence of Christ in all things, including all of life at the public university (Col. 1: 17-18).

  • Carmen House seeks to contribute to learning and the pursuit of truth on campus at Ohio State. We desire to help students and faculty, no matter where they are on their spiritual journeys, to explore how their studies and their work on campus could be pursued with Christ, and for Christ. We believe the Christian story can provide a comprehensive understanding of reality that helps us find meaning in God's world.

    Carmen House seeks to host and curate programs that help students, faculty, and staff at OSU explore life's deepest questions.

  • An important ingredient to a Christian Study Centers is a physical location on the doorstep of a secular university. Learning and growth is not best accomplished as isolated individuals. Carmen House is seeking a location where Ohio State students, faculty, and staff can come together and experience the hospitality of Christ.

    Carmen House endeavors to be a hub where various campus ministries can utilize a facility for their own mission, cultivating unity in the body of Christ.

Why bother? Aren't there enough campus ministries, Christian colleges, and libraries already?

Carmen House will be different than all of those. Picture a warm, hospitable place where students and faculty will be met with humility, respect, and love as they explore deep questions on their spiritual journey.

Turn figurative bricks into physical bricks.

Come spring 2025, we will be focusing on a capital campaign in order that Carmen House Christian Study Center might secure a location and have the necessary funds to pursue our mission and vision.

In the meantime, we are still in need of additional support through our current sponsoring organization (Global Service Associates).

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