Spiritual Development

At PLNU, we want to engage you in more than books and lectures. Your education here involves getting outside the classroom and into the streets and pathways of the world. Our dream for you as you come to Point Loma is that you will join with us in the lifetime journey of learning, growing, and serving.

In the Office of Spiritual Development, it is our mission to encourage the campus of PLNU in our teaching, shaping, sending mission by creating and implementing programs that facilitate worship, discipleship, and ministry. In the “upreach” of worship, we gather to offer corporate praise and personal surrender to God. In the “inreach” of discipleship, we focus on learning and growing in Christ. In the “outreach” of ministry, we go out to the world with our hands and hearts extended in love!

In the next few pages, you will meet some of the people who are dedicated to teaching, shaping, and sending, and you will see some of the ways we have planned to do that.

We are happy you are here, and we are ready to help you make the most of your educational experience at PLNU.

For more information, visit the Faith website.

Chapel - Three times a week PLNU comes together for a worship experience designed to engage our minds with the truth of God’s Word, shape our character in the likeness of Christ, and help us understand service as an expression of our faith.  

Discipleship Ministries - Whether you join a small group, retreat, Film Forum or various other forums, there are many way to connect with others and seek God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

International Ministries - PLNU travels to dozens to different countries and serves people in many different ways all over the world through LoveWorks, GradWorks, Mission Camps, and Summer Ministry Internships.

Worship Ministries - The purpose of Worship Ministries is not just about music and about what takes place within a musical aspect of worship. It’s about living a life of worship 24/7.

Student Ministries - Every PLNU student can find a place to serve in Student Ministries - in locations ranging from schools, to elderly homes and homeless shelters, to churches and children’s hospitals along with many others.