A loveworks group meets locals in Madagascar

LoveWorks

We Take Risks for God's Kingdom

The world can be a dangerous place. We refuse to allow fear to stop us, rather we are compelled by God’s love to go and serve. LoveWorks is well-designed and led by trained staff, faculty, alumni, and friends of PLNU. Safety and wisdom are always our key priorities.

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We Only Go Where We Are Invited

Our short-term mission is only as valid inasmuch as we support our host's long-term established community work. Ours is a ministry of presence and encouragement. We eagerly serve as our host directs us.

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We Believe in Learning

For a three-week trip we will plan and prepare together for over three months. Our training program has been built upon learning from our hosts. You will gain cross-cultural awareness and skills that last a lifetime and reshape relationships in the world.

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LoveWorks // PLNU Short-Term Missions

For 3 decades, PLNU has been sending student mission teams to partner in ministry with the church all around the world. We send well-trained volunteer mission teams to serve alongside our hosts as Christ's hands and feet.

Will you join us in service?

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How LoveWorks and Student Life and Formation have grown together

How LoveWorks and the office of Student Life and Formation grew together and remain ways that PLNU fulfills its mission to serve.

Read More in the Viewpoint Online Magazine 

Want to Learn More About LoveWorks?

Pastors, congregations, and missionaries are aware of LoveWorks’ longstanding commitment to sending well-trained, culturally sensitive, and flexible teams. As a result, our teams are often invited to serve in challenging and remote areas of the world and in cross-cultural, relational ministries. If you have any questions, or would like more information about trips, finances, applying, or more, please reach out to us at missions@pointloma.edu.

A PLNU student works with a student on homework while on a Loveworks trip to Zambia
Helping students with homework in Zambia.
Mitchell and Jordan smile at the camera with Filipino children making funny faces.
It's all smiles for Mitchell and Jordan in the Philippines.
A PLNU Loveworks student gets baptized by a pastor in the DRC.
A LoveWorks team member gets baptized by a pastor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A PLNU student interacts with a group of children on a Loveworks trip in Madagascar.
Interacting with a group of children on a LoveWorks trip in Madagascar.
A student pedals a bike carrying a family in India.
Taking a trip with the locals around India.
A female soccer player carrying a soccer ball is chased by a child in Zambia around a circle.
There's always time for some fun and games during a Loveworks trip.

LoveWorks in Action

 

LoveWorks and the EAC

PLNU LoveWorks collaborates with the PLNU Educational Access Center (EAC) for accessibility in our programs; however, many trips require advanced planning for specific students and their accommodation needs. We encourage students with disabilities to self-advocate, confer with the EAC, and apply to LoveWorks.  

If you may require disability accommodation in the program application process and with team preferences, please express your need when prompted early in the process.  We are here to help.

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