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We are so glad that you as a graduate student have chosen to be a part of the Point Loma Nazarene University Community. Our desire is to make resources available to you as you engage in whole life development. The Office of Spiritual Development offers spiritual care, resources and prayers for our students engaged in graduate and professional studies. We are here to help this season of professional development include a component of spiritual development. Your professors are key people who will model the integration of their faith and professional life. As you investigate this page you will see there are additional resources available to you. Some of these resources are in a pilot program and we would love to receive any suggestions from you in ways that we might better serve the graduate student.

Times of intense study can affect so many areas of your lives. Often personal balance is thrown significantly off-kilter as you pour yourself into renewed academic studies. Our prayer over you is that you will find strength, wisdom, endurance during this journey. We pray that you will grow closer to God in ways which will be life changing and life enriching.




Spirtual Resources


Download our Graduate Student Prayers for Seasons of Life .

Visit the Chapel Page.

Find Churches near your regional center.




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Meet The Mission Valley Chaplain


Rev. Steve Rodeheaver, M.DIV., MA, will be serving as our Grad Site Chaplain at Mission Valley. Pastor Steve and his wife Vonda have served at San Diego Southeast Church of the Nazarene (3605 National Ave.) for twenty-two years. They have three children, Rebecca (18), Rachel (16), and John Mark (13). Pastor Steve also teaches in the School of Theology and Christian ministry on the Point Loma campus. 

Professor Rodeheaver has written a book reflecting on his ministry at Southeast, entitled Snapshots of the Kingdom: Glimpses of Heaven on Earth and his weekly sermons are available to download at http://www.southeastnazsd.org .

Pastor Steve will be on site two evenings a week. He looks forward to getting to know you and being available to you during your graduate journey. Pastor Steve will be making class visits but please feel free to stop him in the halls or lounge to introduce yourself at anytime!

steverodeheaver@pointloma.edu
Phone: 619.849.2242



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Prayer Request

“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.  With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.”   Ephesians 6:18

We are a community that cares deeply for each other.  We know and have experienced the importance of carrying our needs before our Lord in prayer.  As we seek God with grateful hearts.  We wait in prayer for His guidance, comfort, direction and will for our lives.  We know that those in the graduate community are pulled in many directions and have lives often stretched beyond limits.  Praying for those in our community brings us closer to each other as we seek God’s blessing for the needs of our families, faculty, students and staff.  


“Count your blessings!” Yes, but over what area shall I look for them?  There is my personal life.  Let me search in every corner.  I have found forget-me-nots on many a rutty road.  I have found wild-roses behind a barricade of nettles…So I must look even in the dark patches of life, among my disappointments and defeats, and even there I shall find tokens of the Lord’s presence, some flowers of His planting.”  John Henry Jowett, 1863-1923


We look forward to receiving and praying for your requests each Monday when we send out our Graduate Prayer e-Bulletin.  This e-Bulletin is disseminated throughout our graduate community and we would like to include you. First, If you would like to be added to our prayer distribution list please send an email request to Dr. Maggie Bailey, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies. Second, if you have a personal prayer request please send it to the email address below.  If you have a request for another member of the community please let them know about our prayer message and have them contact us.  For privacy reasons we cannot publish prayer requests except from the person making the request.  If you have an unspoken requests we also want to hear from you and we will pray for your unspoken need. 


Send Prayer Request to Maggie Bailey ( maggiebailey@pointloma.edu ).



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