Student Life and Formation Supports Your Faith Journey

Student Life Built on Faith

Faith is woven into the everyday lives of PLNU students through intentional relationships, service opportunities, and spaces to deeply experience the love of Jesus. This extension of whole-person development is built through ministry opportunities both on and off campus, as well as spaces where students can ask questions, share life, and live missionally.

Guiding Principles

Our guiding principles continually shape the Office of Student Life and Formation — providing a framework for serving students, building community, and supporting each student’s unique faith journey:

Experience God's Love.
Knowing the love of God through Christ is the core of all we do. God's love inspires us to see the inherent value in every individual.
Commit to Each Other.
We embrace opportunities to belong and share in faith within the global, local, and campus community.
Serve and Engage.
When we experience God's love, we engage in service. When we serve, we experience compassion. When we experience compassion for each other, we grow in faith. When we grow in faith, we experience God's love. Service and engagement is reciprocal.
Reflect, Respond, and Reflect.
Practice discernment. We reflect on Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as we discern how to live faithfully as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Believe in Real Life Change.
We seek authentic and healthy transformation by the power of the Holy Spirit through a holistic faith journey.

Your Loma, Your Experience

Finding Community

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PLNU brings together students, faculty, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Rooted in Christ, we are committed to serving others through compassion, hospitality, and humility to create spaces for all to find a community.

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Making Loma Home

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With most undergraduate students living on-campus, community is shaped through shared experiences and a commitment to faith, calling, and personal growth. Each residence hall offers unique living spaces to empower students academically, socially, and spiritually.

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Growing in Faith

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An important piece of whole-person development is each student’s unique faith journey. PLNU offers four chapel services each week, inviting the whole university community to come together in worship, teaching, and prayer.

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Loma Beyond Campus

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Exploring new cultures, environments, and experiences is one of many ways students can integrate faith, academics, and personal growth into their day-to-day lives. PLNU offers a variety of international experiences, including international missions trips and study abroad opportunities.

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Serving at PLNU Quicklinks

Discipleship Ministries

Through student-led discipleship groups, mentorship programs, and specialized events, students can experience a variety of ways to connect with God, self, and others on a deeper and relational level.

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Worship Arts

Students are provided with an opportunity to help lead worship for the PLNU community — intentionally seeking Christ through Scripture, prayer, singing, preaching, stories of faith, and other creative elements.

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Community Ministries

PLNU is committed to supporting the many ways students can serve throughout the San Diego region. Students of all backgrounds and skill sets are invited to join — offering the gifts of service with a desire to give, receive, and be blessed by Jesus through Christian ministry.

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LoveWorks

Where PLNU is invited, we will go. LoveWorks equips PLNU students to serve alongside ministry partners and communities around the world in a variety of capacities — including teaching, evangelism, community service, and more.

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Ministry with México

Located less than an hour from the border of México, Ministry with Mexico provides space and support for PLNU community members to establish and sustain relationships in cross-cultural contexts.

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Wellness & Medical Support

The Wellness Center is committed to helping students maintain a high level of health and wellness by offering emotional, physical, and preventive health services. The center provides medical and counseling services in addition to wellness education for all undergraduate students.

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Counseling Center

The Counseling Center works to foster a culture of individualized and customized mental health support as an expression of our faith, empowering students to cultivate a culture of holistic wellness, while enhancing their academic, personal, spiritual, and professional success.

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Student Care

The mission of the Student Care Group is to promote the safety and well-being of the PLNU community. The group is trained to support students struggling socially, academically, spiritually, physically, and emotionally.

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