Campus Ministries

Spiritual Formation

It’s no secret that the environment you are in plays a significant role in your development as a person. This is a fact we at Northwest University don’t take lightly. As a Christian Institution, it is our hope that you’d experience significantly positive spiritual formation during your time on campus. With guidance from you leaders on campus and in community with your peers, our goal is for you to see marked spiritual growth and fulfilment in your own life and in the lives of those around you.

Northwest’s Campus Ministries Department exists to cultivate the spiritual vitality of the NU Community and to foster the spiritual formation of each student. Christian Spiritual Formation happens at Northwest University primarily through teaching, community, and practice—all through the work of the Holy Spirit. Practically, Campus Ministries provides opportunities for students to grow in four interrelated areas of spiritual formation: personal, relational, corporate, and missional.

Spiritual Formation at Northwest University

Hi, friends, my name is Micah Lorenz, and I am one of the associate campus pastors of discipleship and spiritual formation here at Northwest.

And my name is Megan Netherton and I'm the associate campus pastor of care and coordination. We want to share with you about spiritual formation in our community.

At Northwest our whole mission is to be a learning community committed to spiritual vitality. That is who we are. If we do not have Christ at the center, it makes me wonder what do we have at the center instead? That space cannot be left empty. Our community has come to know and hold Jesus as the center of everything we do and everything we do it from. It does not matter what major, what academic discipline, or what vocation you are pursuing. Each one of us are invited to follow Jesus well. Each one of us play a role and a part of making Northwest and amazingly spiritually vibrant community. We are committed to the spiritual formation of every person here at Northwest. That includes me, that includes Megan, and that includes you.

Being committed to Christ is easy to talk about, but a lot of universities have a hard time doing it or don't actually do it at all. One of the ways NU has maintained our commitment to Christ being the center of our community and culture is by having a plan to make it happen. We have very focused spiritual formation programming that helps keep our community spiritually vibrant. We allow the Bible to explain our culture rather than letting the culture explain the Bible. We create spaces and times for prayer, worship, and Christian community. We are empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring the Kingdom of God here on earth as it is in heaven. We hope in your time here at Northwest, you will come to love Jesus deeply, trust what Jesus says, and follow Jesus well.

Personal

Communing with Jesus as individuals; facilitated through spiritual disciplines, including devotions, Scriptural study, and prayer.

Relational

Learning from and encouraging fellow Christ followers in their walk with Christ; facilitated through Life Groups and community gatherings such as the prayer team, Chic Chat and FellaShip, Courageous Conversations, and more.

Congregational

Gathering together to worship God in hearing Scripture, sermons, singing, testimony, communion, prayer, confession, generosity, and more; facilitated through services and conferences.

Missional

Going into environments outside the University to engage in God’s mission, building His Church, and participating in the work of the Kingdom. This is facilitated through local and global missions that engage in evangelism, discipleship, justice, generosity, and others forms of ministry.