Campus Ministry

Campus Ministry is committed to supporting and encouraging the spiritual development, reflection, and dialogue of students through student sponsored programs and events, as well as partnerships with other colleges/universities and community organizations.

All students, staff, and guests who participate in any Campus Ministry program, or who utilize the Campus Ministry facility, are expected to encourage and extend a sense of mutual respect and understanding between different faiths, belief systems, denominations, historic traditions, and practices.

The SCF Campus Ministry program and facility are provided oversight by the SCF Student Life department on the Bradenton campus. Understanding the diversity of the College’s interfaith community students, staff, and guests must clearly and explicitly state the identity of the organization that they represent in any literature, display, or publicity regarding religious/spiritual programming. Additionally, the rights of any individual to decline or continue a conversation about his or her faith, spiritual, or religious beliefs will be strictly upheld.

The Offices of Student Life and Business Services/Facility Rentals supervise Campus Ministry space rentals, meeting requests, class/seminar requests, and extracurricular/co-curricular events. Staffing and hours of operation are supervised by the office of Student Life in collaboration with campus Public Safety and Security. All community partnership activities must abide by SCF’s solicitation and sponsorship policies.

Bradenton Contact: 941-752-5607
Venice Contact: 941-752-1523

Faces of Campus Ministry

Rev. Bryan

The Rev. Bryan D. O’Carroll Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church, Supervising Chaplain SCF Campus Ministry Education includes a BA in Human Development (with a focus on counseling) and a Masters of Divinity degree. My ministry is focused on building relationships as a way of encouraging and empowering others to live their faith in service to others.

Deacon Kathy

Deacon Kathy
USF graduate with a B.A. in Speech-English Education and a minor in
Technical Theatre
Taught at Bayshore High School for 35 years; retired in 2004.
Was ordained Deacon in 2005.
Currently serving at St. Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church in Sarasota
Has been actively involved with the Campus Ministry since June 2004.

Rev. Jennifer Potter is the newly appointed Associate Pastor of Harvest United Methodist Church in Lakewood Ranch. Jennifer is a native Floridian who grew up in Tampa. After attending Emory University where she studied Economics, she found herself working for attorneys after college before heading to Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC. Jennifer loves cookies, coffee, running, and reading and is passionate about college and young adult ministry. Harvest UMC is expanding to a second location in the Bayshore area and looks forward to serving the students of SCF!

Kevin Kevin has been at SCF functioning as a chaplain since 2011.He has a passion to help students feel welcome and connected at SCF.Kevin works for Woodland Community Church as their College Pastor and their Parrish Campus Pastor. He also helped them start The Coffee Loft as a place for college students to hang out. He has a Masters degree in Ministry and loves to spend time with his wife and little girl. If you want to meet up him sometime or if you have any questions then please e-mail him at kevin@gowoodland.com

Rabbi Barbara Aiello

Rabbi Barbara Aiello
Resident Rabbi, Kobernick Campus
rabbi@rabbibarbara.com
SKYPE id: rbaiello
941-306-3255