Center for Faith and Learning

Student Programs and Applications

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

Click Here to view videos and websites from some of the past student grant and internship projects supported by the Center for Faith and Learning

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 to view a past service grant application as an example.

Service and Social Action Grant Awards and Awardees for 2012-13:

Dance Marathon for More Than Compassion, Guatemalan school, Jordynn Cheeney

• International Justice Mission Week of Hunger and Homelessness T-shirt Fundraiser, Kealy Jaynes, Ally Doyle and Kacie Scherler
• Project LEAD: Civil Rights Trip, Kari Enge
• Project Serve, Antigua Guatemala, Taylor Wurdeman and Jorge Bojorkez-Calderon
• Project Service, Domican Republic, Kendra Fellows and Gustavo Tiffer
• Thailand Global Justice Program spring break trip, anti-human trafficking, Taylor Friedlander
• Korean Culture Night for Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), Jeffrey Suk
• African Impact and Lily of the Valley Endeavor, South Africa summer mission, Michelle DuBois and Christopher Molina, Acting on AIDS Club
• Building Buyamba Sandcastle Building Fundraiser, Courtney Germann
• RoyalKids Prayer Ministry and Orphanage, Anna Salai, Chennai, India, Bobby Yung, Audry Lin and Destiny Kimani, Adorn Student-Led Ministry
• White Rainbow Project, widow ministry, Vrindavan, India, Sarah Houston, Paige Johnson, and Shelby Smith
• Kentucky Primary and Junior High School, Jamaica, school supply project, Morgan Meyer, GSEP

 

The dealine for the service and social action grants has passed. Please check back in the fall 2013 for the 2013-14 application.

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.

The deadline for the 2012-13 Professional School Student Service Internship Award has passed. Please check back in the fall 2013 for the 2013-14 application.

Professional School Student Service Internship Awards for 2012-13:

 

• Stephanie Brown, SOL, International Justice Mission, Rwanda
• Shelley Choy, SOL, Rwandan Judiciary
• Katie Coy, SOL, Ugandan Judiciary
• Christiana Ekeke, GSEP, World Overcomers Ministries International
• Richard Liu, SOL, Counsel for Secure Justice, India
• Ope Peters, SOL, Ugandan Judiciary
• Rachel Robinson, SOL, Los Angeles County Public Defender
• Romney Ruder, GSEP, World Impact
• Joseph Spano, SOL, International Justice Mission, India

The deadline for the 2012-13 Professional School Student Service Internship Award has passed. Please check back in the fall 2013 for the 2013-14 application.

Ministry Internships

The Center for Faith and Learning partners with the Religion Division to offer funding for ministry-related internships for Seaver College students desiring to pursue a calling in religion/ministry. First preference for funding is given to Religion Division majors, minors and graduate students. This program allows 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. Conejo Valley Church of Christ Youth Minister and Pepperdine adjunct Religion professor Jack Williamson coordinates the intern program.

The deadline for the 2012-13 Ministry Internship Award has passed. Please check back in the fall 2013 for the 2013-14 application.

Ministry Internship Awards for 2012-13:

 

CLICK HERE to view a slideshow of the 2013 Ministry Interns

• Alexander Fisher, Westside Church of Christ, Bakersfield, youth ministry
• Eric Kim, Trinity Grace Churchand NY Faith and Justice NPO, New York City
• Shaina Kohli, Hilltop Community Church of Christ, youth
• Sara Leonard, University Church of Christ, Malibu, youth
• Daniel Mattox, Christ First Church of Covina and University Church of Christ, young adult and youth
• Demi McCoy, White Rainbow Project, India, widow ministry
• Callie Nibecker, University Church of Christ, Malibu, youth
• Kacie Scherler, Conejo Valley Church of Christ, youth
• Nathaniel Tinner, Malibu Gathering, IT, AV and worship
• Calvin Yang, Los Angeles Open Door Presbyterian Church, Koreatown, Korean-speaking young adult and youth

The deadline for the 2012-13 Ministry Internship Award has passed. Please check back in the fall 2013 for the 2013-14 application. 

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.