1994 LoveWorks Center for Compassionate Ministries created.

Each year the number of ministry projects grew, and in 1993 they were collectively called LoveWorks '93. The AmeriCorps concept of the Clinton Administration was quickly adopted as a concept for formalizing all of this into a service learning organization, and in 1994 a formal compassionate ministries organization called LoveWorks was born. The projects promoted the values of service, the affirmation of the dignity of people who lived in very different circumstances, and allowed students to experience the hope that comes from seeing people saved and needs met. The structure provided a liability shield for the college, a structure for receiving mission funding from the churches, and a continuing organization that allowed the development of an endowment. In LoveWorks the college had found a mechanism to combine the three thrusts of growth. Kacy Oakley found in her LoveWorks trip to Brazil an opportunity to serve, a chance to grow beyond her time and place and see a different culture in a new way, and to find that God was working in her own life through the experience. The outreach was promoting the inreach. Others found similar results in other places. Melissa Skiles found it in San Francisco. The San Francisco team witnessed to street people, fed the homeless, and passed out blankets. "The Lord showed me how insignificant I was in comparison to him. I saw my spiritual weaknesses and I was embarrassed to see Jesus more in the street people than in myself. We saw what Jesus Christ is all about in San Francisco. It was more beautiful and painful than we ever could have imagined, and it has left an impression that none of us can forget."

From Promise and Destiny: Grace in the History of Point Loma Nazarene University, by Ron Kirkemo 2001


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