• A Protestant Evangelical university. All faculty, staff, and entering students affirm the Statement of Faith .

• Interdenominational within the Protestant Evangelical heritage.

• Integration of faith and learning throughout the curriculum .

• Chapel four days a week, for half an hour on Tuesday - Friday.

• Prayer times, summer evangelism, missions emphasis weeks, and many other practical, spiritual opportunities.

• Required Christian service one day a week, usually Sunday with a church.

• Dorm-based education for living as a Christian community.

• A long heritage of preparing Christian leaders, some as laity to work as salt-and-light in the secular world and some as clergy to work as pastors, missionaries, and para-church staff in Christian organizations. Our graduates work and minister in every continent and in most countries of the world. This is also, with God's blessing, our future.