Ministries

"The eight ministries at SPU strive to provide a holistic experience for the student body at each of their events."

Ministries

There are three categories of ministries at SPU: discipleship, worship, and service. Each ministry at SPU falls under one of these categories in an effort to provide precise and comprehensive routes for spiritual formation.

The discipleship ministries allow students to learn who they are in relationship with other students and with God through small groups, Bible studies, mentoring relationships and other programs.

The worship ministries strive to communicate a broad vision of the Christian story. As the students sing, pray, and study their way through one whole book of the Bible together each quarter they are learning to understand themselves and their communities as a part of the big story of God’s plan to heal the brokenness of the world.

The service ministries provide opportunities for all student to engage in local and global service-learning and to actively participate in out Christian vocation to join God’s redemptive movement in the world.

Although each ministry has its own individual purpose and function, they are continually collaborating with one another during the planning of events in order to provide the student body with a more holistic experience.

What is Holistic Ministry?

The term “holistic” is characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole (dictionary.com).

Thus, Holistic Ministry is the act of worship, discipleship, and service ministries working with one another in order to provide the student body with a holistic experience. This type of collaboration is pertinent to the spiritual formation of students at SPU, for what is worship without service or discipleship without worship?

1 Corinthians 12:12 represents this vision well: “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body” (NIV).