Who Are We?
SERVICE & DISCIPLESHIP
The Office of Service and Discipleship equips and empowers APU students to faithfully pursue God and participate in God’s transformative work in the world through intentional service and discipleship opportunities. OSD is a place where your being and your doing can thrive in relationship with God, your understanding of yourself, your interactions with others, and this grand world God created for us. We believe that service and discipleship are critical to our faith as we aim to embody Jesus’ commands to “Be my disciple” and “Follow me.”
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GLOBAL ENGAGMENT
Global Engagement teams provide opportunities for students to serve nationally and internationally over fall, spring, and summer breaks. GE experiences vary in length, location, intensity, and the type of service students get to participate in, with our partner communities and host organizations. All GE experiences earn students 30 service credits.
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LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
Local Engagement provides opportunities for students to serve locally over fall and spring semesters. Service opportunities vary in length, location, intensity, and the type of service (e.g. tutoring, food ministry, community development, outreach) students get to participate in, with our partner communities and host organizations. Ongoing LE opportunities earn students 15-30 service credits. One-time opportunities earn students 5.
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DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRIES
Our office equips students to live as disciples of Jesus by providing them with relational discipleship opportunities through small groups (D-Groups) and one-on-one spiritual mentoring. These on-campus opportunities encourage students to develop foundational spiritual practices that equip us for a life-long journey of growing in relationship with Jesus and becoming like him in the context of community. Through D-Groups and spiritual mentoring, students will be able to grow in spiritual maturity by engaging in dialogue about faith and life while having access to consistent encouragement and support from another Christian as they grow together in relationship with Christ.
To access the Discipleship Group Leader Handbook, University Passage Curriculum, and University Practice Curriculum, click here
“Discipleship community is a tangible, yet set apart and powerful way for me to see God at work. I leave my time with others more encouraged in my faith and with a deeper sense that the Lord is with me.”
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G.A.P. YEARS
G.A.P. Years (Go And Prepare) exists as a sending program providing a cohort of students each year ready and willing to serve overseas with Christ-based community development and/or mission organizations that work with unreached/least reached people groups for two years after graduation.
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AZUSA SCHOLARS
The Azusa Scholars Program is designed to develop the recipients’ leadership skills and to promote community service involvement, particularly in the city of Azusa. The Program encompasses a variety of events designed to facilitate the students’ personal, professional, academic, and spiritual growth through the use of faculty and community speakers, team-building activities, off-campus service projects, and individually-assigned mentoring relationships.
“Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something amazing in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”
