Grant given to study and support 20-something faith
的 神学院 at SPU recently became the only institution in the Pacific Northwest to receive a $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help congregations engage young adults ages 23 to 29. 杰夫Keuss, professor of Christian ministry, 神学, 和文化, will lead the five-year initiative, 叫做西北支点, 在西雅图太平洋. 在他的领导下, the SPU innovation hub identified multiple local congregations to partner with, and will help them better understand the experiences of young adults and work with them to design, 发射, and evaluate new ministries. 的 hub will also gather leaders for mutual learning and support.
Lecture details the history of Scripture study at SPU
Rob墙保罗·T. Walls professor of Scripture and Wesleyan studies, delivered this year’s Walls Lecture on May 2. 基础上 Howard Snyder’s historical book on 西雅图 Pacific’s founding, which notes the University’s “missionary impulse,” the lecture narrated a story that plots the purposeful pairing of Scripture’s instruction with this missional taproot. Wall explained a Wesleyan missional hermeneutics of Scripture cued by Jesus’s Great Commission (Luke 24:44–49), and John Wesley’s sermon “的 General Spread of the Gospel,” followed by a curated history of Scripture at SPU. 道格强, dean of the 神学院 and Seminary, served as the respondent.
SoulCare small groups support students’ spiritual lives
Students in University Foundation 1000 classes participated in SoulCare groups this year. Derived from SPU’s Wesleyan holiness heritage, SoulCare is an adaptation of group spaces aimed at exploring faith and growing community started by John and Charles Wesley. Wesleyan small groups embody a practice in Christian formation and reconciliation that connects students to Christian community, and facilitate growth in awareness and love of self, 邻居, 和上帝. To accomplish these purposes, participants gather weekly under the leadership of trained facilitators to ask and answer the question, “How goes it with your soul?”
First 浸泡 Youth Discipleship Academy held this summer
浸泡, an intensive 门徒 experience for high school students, began this summer. 由600美元资助,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment, 浸泡 drew 37 students and 11 counselors (SPU undergraduate and graduate students) to the campus and Camp Casey July 9–15. 的y will reunite October 6–8 for a follow-up retreat. 浸泡 helps students ground their identity in Christian faith and their call to live out that identity within the local church and community. 学生学习神学, 崇拜在一起, 分组见面, practice spiritual disciplines, and learn what it means to apply their faith through service-learning and community-building opportunities unique to the Pacific Northwest. 迈克尔·朗格弗德, associate professor of 神学, 门徒, 和部, 领导项目, 哪一个被安置在 神学院.
Reconciliation leader 约翰米. 珀金斯 visits campus, and SPU hosts student leadership event
SPU成立于2004年 约翰·珀金斯中心 equips students to model reconciliation and contribute to community health and wholeness. 它的联合创始人约翰. 珀金斯, visited the 西雅图 Pacific University campus on April 25 for his 12th annual lecture at chapel, during which he was interviewed by 珀金斯 Center director 斜面海尔斯顿.
的 lecture kicked off a week of 珀金斯 Lecture events leading up to the 2017 Justice Speaks Student Leadership Event — an event for college and high school students. 免费的, two-day event used breakout sessions, 表演, 讲故事, and artistic expression to interact with topics focused on justice for the stranger, justice for the prisoner, and justice for the land and its people.