The calling of students is worked out as graduates are enabled to take their places as pastors, educators, missionaries, and laity who lead and equip others in the common task of ministry. The calling of the faculty is realized as it offers its ongoing leadership, prophetic and priestly, through its scholarship, instruction and discipleship. The calling of the staff is fulfilled as it fosters the educational mission of the institution. Mutuality is found in a common Lord and in common service. Distinctiveness is found in the specific service rendered.
North Park serves the world by serving the church.
Enlivened by the Holy Spirit to engage in critical, classical and cultural learning, North Park seeks faithfully to interpret the biblical text. The Seminary brings, text, tradition and culture into conversation in the training and forming of pastors, educators and missionaries. In this service of the gospel the Seminary is a servant of the church, teacher of the church, and learner with the church. This partnership in the gospel makes possible the evangelization of all peoples, the ministry to human need, the enrichment of the mind, and the edification of congregational life. The Seminary receives persons as gifts from God and from the church.