Seeking Your Support as We Grow in the Spirit
Sara Apostoaei
RCSA Member at Large for Spiritual Formation
As a council, we aim to listen and look—listening to God and each other, and paying attention to the invitations of the Spirit in the midst of our individual and communal life of study.
This year there has been an emphasis on spiritual formation. This emerged from faculty and students who recognized and named the spiritual needs of our community, including the need for rest, play, communion with God, and healing.
Spiritual formation is about cultivating a holistic life orientation, which then informs our choices and habits. It is a deeper alignment with God that will transform various aspects of our lives. My hope for Regent students is that they will experience the loving and transformative presence of God, which is readily available to all who seek him. I hope their time at Regent will serve as a catalyst for their walk with Christ, a season they can point to as the place they were met, changed, and loved into becoming who they were created to be.
Sean Beckett
RCSA Member at Large for Prayer
In every season of our lives, seeking God is our first duty and pleasure. Ministry or work without prayer is like farming without water. Nothing good happens outside of relationship with God.
One of the gifts of this year has been the new series of midweek prayer meetings called, “Lord, Teach Us to Pray.” Each week we gather in the James Houston Prayer Chapel, and a faculty member shares a life-giving spiritual practice and leads us in a special time of prayer. I am so grateful to be in a place where we can constantly pray openly with people from across the globe.
We need to be people of prayer, individually and as a community. The world needs us to be people of prayer, individually and as a community. Only a praying people can encounter God in a way that will transform them and their society towards God’s purposes. We need each other and we need each other’s prayers.