Center for Faith and Learning

Student Programs and Applications

Please contact Stephanie Cupp for any questions regarding these programs and applications.

Service and Social Action Grant Program

Most students come to Pepperdine with a strong record of participation in volunteer efforts while in high school. Still, they may not make the connection between their various acts of service and a response to the call of God for their lives. The Center for Faith and Learning hopes to move these students from their point of entry—whatever that point may be—to a full realization that a life of service is their Christian vocation.

No existing Pepperdine structure has been more crucial to the realization of this objective than the Pepperdine Volunteer Center (PVC), which already sponsors multiple points of entry into the Pepperdine culture of service and volunteer work. Students find other service opportunities in service-learning courses, American Humanics, Step Forward Day, Project Serve and many other programs.

Through the Center for Faith and Learning, the University offers direction and financial support for a variety of student-led initiatives. Examples include:

* projects that address and/or seek to alleviate poverty and hunger

* projects that address and or seek to promote peace and justice

* projects that serve the community in a variety of ways

Click here for an application for the 2011-2012 Service and Social Action Grant Program. There is a rolling deadline through April 6, 2011.

Click Here to view a past service grant application as an example.

Service and Social Action Grant Awards and Awardees for 2011-12:
Genevieve Ruddock - We Art Aware and TOMS Shoes Club "Style Your Sole" Event 

Service and Social Action Grant Awards and Awardees for 2010-11:

Sharon Dalmage (GSEP)- Roadmap to College to Disadvantaged Youth
Leticia Vasquez (GSEP)- Broadacres Elementary  School Community Garden Project
Project Serve Waco- Mission Waco and World Hunger Relief Farm
Project Serve Panama team- Youth With a Mission
Rachel Williams and Kaitlin Flynn- Adulam in Argentina
Guatemala Mission Trip group- Huehuetenango, Guatemala, spring break, 2011
The Face of Microfinance Documentary- Pepperdine Microfinance Club, Argentina documentary film, summer 2011
His Little Ones Graduate School Mission Service trip- Romania, summer 2011
Rock Opera project- Student Robert Shogry (stage name Nevin James) rock opera on topic of modern-day human trafficking.

Professional School Student Service Internships

The Center for Faith and Learning provides opportunities for professional school students to undertake approved summer internships with faith-based, service-oriented organizations. The students receive stipends which allow them the opportunity for service and for exploring their own vocation in very practical ways. Students work with faculty mentors and produce papers reflecting on their experiences in the internship and its implications for their vocations.

Click Here for the 2011-12 Professional School Student Service Internship Application. The deadline to apply is March 12, 2012.

Professional School Student Service Internship Awards for 2010-11:

Gera Anderson (GSEP)- Trinita Family Life Center
Tzipora Goodfriend (SOL)- Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office
Taylor Friedlander (SOL)- Rwandan Judiciary
Jerald Monson (GSBM/SOL)- Themba International
Isabel Ossa (GSEP)- Gabriel's House
Carrie Adams Pullen (GSEP)- Sunset International Bible Institute
Amanda Schulze (GSEP)- Unity Charitable Trust
Jeewon Yang (GSEP)- Korean American Special Education Center
Global Justice Program, School of Law- assisting students traveling to programs in Uganda, Rwanda, Peru, and India

• Mitchell Emmert- Ugandan Judicial Clerkship
• Megan Springer- Ugandan Judicial Clerkship
• Mark Reinhardt- Ugandan Judicial Clerkship
• Peter Depew- Rwandan Judicial Clerkship
• Elizabeth Adams- Paz y Esperanza, Peru
• Kelsey Waples- Paz y Esperanza, Peru
• Elliott Dionisio- Clerkship, Supreme Court of Ghana
• Brian Freano- Clerkship, Supreme Court of Ghana
• Rebecca Getman- Dalit Freedom Network, Hyderabad, India
• Karissa Hurst- Dalit Freedom Network, Hyderabad, India

Ministry Internships

The Center for Faith and Learning partners with the Religion Division to offer funding for summer ministry internships to Religion majors, minors and graduate students. This program allows Religion students to test their vocational wings by participating in a ministry of the church under the direct supervision of a professional who works full-time in a church-based ministry. Students use this opportunity to work with churches, missionary groups, NPOs, chaplains and other church-based groups throughout California, the United States, and the world. Religion professor Stuart Love coordinates all aspects of the intern program.

Click here for an application for the 2011-2012 Ministry Internship Award. The preferred deadline is January 31, 2012, with an absolute deadline of February 24, 2012.

Ministry Internship Awards for 2010-11:

Jazz Brice (Seaver) - Intern, Boone Center for the Family, Malibu, CA
Luke Clayton (Seaver) - Intern, Crossing Boundaries Leadership Institute, Malibu, CA
Caitlin Cury (Seaver) - Summer Student Coordinator, World Vision
Krista Friedman (Seaver) - Spiritual Development Intern, Athletic's Chaplaincy, Malibu, CA
Reginald Green (Seaver) - Ministry Intern, Keeping It Real Ministries, Winnetka, CA
Alison Johnson (Seaver) - Youth Ministry Intern, The Church at Lakewood, Lakewood, WA
Jordan Smoak (Seaver) - Inner-City College Ministry Intern, Farragut Church of Christ, Knoxville, TN
Stanley Tyrone Talbert (Seaver) - Ministry Intern, Normandie Church of Christ, Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Tsark (Seaver) - Chaplain's Graduate Intern, Office of the Chaplain, Malibu, CA
Brendin Williamson (Seaver) - Youth Ministry Intern, Hilltop Church of Christ, El Segundo, CA

Deadline for the 2010-11 Internships has passed.

To view a slideshow of our 2010-2011 Ministry Internship Awardees, please click here. 

First Year Seminar Reading Assignment

The Pepperdine Center for Faith and Learning provides a reading and journal assignment to all incoming first year students to help them focus on the question of vocation. By vocation, we do not mean "career." Rather, we mean "calling."  Click here to view the First Year Student Reading Assignment.