Most of them also have extensive and ongoing experience in the local church, on the mission field, and as hospital or military chaplains. North Park students receive a great deal of personal attention from faculty as they mature intellectually and spiritually. Our graduates have gone on not only to posts in ministry, but to doctoral programs in outstanding institutions in the United States and around the world. Seminary education, however, is more about formation than information. It is more about who you are becoming than what you know.
Spiritual formation is at the heart of a North Park education.
Each student in our master degree programs is required to participate in a spiritual formation group. In these groups students and faculty challenge one another to grow in understanding of themselves, the scriptures, and God. The prayers, reflections and conversations in these groups engage the student regarding who they are becoming in Christ. The closer we grow toward God, the more God's concerns become our concerns, God's heart becomes our heart. At North Park we want you to learn how to worship and pray and listen to the God who passionately reaches out to this world.