In order to make the spiritual life of Adeleke University (AU) community vibrant and impactful, the Chaplaincy Unit has introduced the Spiritual Master Plan (SMAP) as the framework for fruitful spiritual experience.<\/p>\n
As an institution patterned after the philosophy of education of the Seventh-day Adventist church, AU adopts the SMAP, which an instrument developed by the Office of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA in the year 1999.<\/p>\n
A major advantage of using SMAP is that it provides pastoral and chaplaincy ministry based on empirical evidence of the spiritual needs of the University community. It is an inclusive strategy which involves the entire highly diversified population base of the University.<\/p>\n
The chaplaincy Unit conducted a survey to determine the area it needs to focus its attention among the members of the community comprising of students, faculty, staff, Council and parents. The spiritual nurturing is based on finding three areas of special needs namely Principle, Belief and Value (PBV). These are drawn from the vision, mission and philosophy statements of the University. The Belief is drawn from the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Value is drawn from the list of core values of the university.<\/p>\n
The survey results led the Chaplaincy Unit to pursue growth of AU community in understanding, nurturing and experiencing the following PBV:<\/p>\n
Principle<\/strong>: Love as the basis of existence.<\/p>\n Belief<\/strong>: Second coming of Christ and the final judgement.<\/p>\n Value<\/strong>: Godliness and joyful service.<\/p>\n The data and information used for planning SMAP is produced by the Research and Evaluation sub-committee of the University\u2019s SMAP committee. The sub-committee does the periodic spiritual evaluation of the university to ensure impactful. The PBV changes periodically based on the assessment of how we fared in living it out during the previous period.<\/p>\n Our prayer is that every member of AU will plug into God\u2019s purpose for the University in being a source of blessing to humanity. We shall be better for it. The world at large shall be better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to make the spiritual life of Adeleke University (AU) community vibrant and impactful, the Chaplaincy Unit has introduced the Spiritual Master Plan (SMAP) as the framework for fruitful spiritual experience. As an institution patterned after the philosophy of education of the Seventh-day Adventist church, AU adopts the SMAP, which an instrument developed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n