Presbyterian Campus Ministry (PCM)

Presbyterian Campus Ministry at Virginia Tech carries out the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s ministry to and with Virginia's largest research university. The ministry is a covenant partnership with four covenant partner churches (Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, Northside Presbyterian Church, and Roanoke Valley Presbyterian Church), the Presbytery of the Peaks, and the Westminster Foundation. We are also supported by the Friends of Cooper House, founded in the early 1960s for the purpose of providing financial and spiritual support to the ministry. The office of Presbyterian Campus Ministry is located in Cooper House, adjacent to the Virginia Tech campus.

Mission Statement

Presbyterian Campus Ministry at Virginia Tech is a ministry to and with students, faculty, and staff through study and reflection, fellowship and community-building, service and mission that seeks to be faithful to the commandment to love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself

Committees

The Board of Directors organizes committees as necessary to fulfill its goals.
Committees currently functioning include:

Administrative Committees

Steering Committee

- responsible for oversight of the physical facilities and administrative staff, the preparation and supervision of the budget, financial planning, and management of annual funds.

Executive Committee

- composed of the chair, vice-chair, secretary, and treasurer of PCM and ministers of the four covenant churches. This committee functions as overseer of programs and can on occasion act for the Board. It composes the Board of Cooper House, Inc., and has that corporate responsibility.

Personnel Committee

- responsible for caring of for PCM staff in working conditions and compensation. It evaluates the staff and makes recommendations for salary or other changes to the Steering Committee and to the Executive Committee.

Endowment Committee

- oversees, maintains, and manages the Endowment Fund.

Program Committees

Mission Committee

- promotes cooperation in planning and interaction among PCM and Covenant Partner Churches in the areas of local, regional, and international service, study/travel, and mission projects.

Peace and Justice Committee

- keeps crucial ethical and social justice issues within the community, university, region, and world before the university and church communities through speakers, conferences, trips, and other events.
The campus ministry is financially supported by Presbytery of the Peaks, the annual budgets of our four covenant partner churches, and gifts from friends. Due to recent budget cuts at the Synod level, local congregations and the campus ministry board are gradually assuming more responsibility for oversight and funding of the ministry. To this end, an Endowment Fund was created to provide income to strengthen and support the ministry into the future. You can help by supporting the Endowment Fund as follows:

• Designate a cash contribution, large or small, for the Endowment Fund for the Presbyterian Campus Ministry at Virginia Tech
• Make a gift to the Endowment Fund in honor or in memory of a loved one
• Make a gift of securities to the Endowment Fund
• Contribute real property (land/buildings)
• Name this ministry as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy
• Arrange for a gift in trust, naming a beneficiary for her/his lifetime, with the residual passing to this ministry upon the death of the beneficiary
• Include this ministry in your will
• Set up an annuity gift plan, providing largely tax-free income during your life, with this ministry as the beneficiary

Please contact Cooper House with questions about how you can support our ministry.

History of the Presbyterian Campus Ministry