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Our Story. God’s Story.
Discover how your life story connects with God’s greater plan at APU Global. Explore videos, personal testimonies, and reflections on faith and learning.
Connecting Our Story with God’s Story
All of us have a unique story. Our collection of life experiences, passions, and goals. But if God is the ultimate author of our story, what’s our part? Explore the resources below on how your story connects to God’s story.
Dana Wheeldon
Finding Alignment
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Essays and devotionals
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Dr. Brant Himes reflects on the implications of connecting our educational journeys to the greater plan of God for our lives. Read his essay here.
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Financial aid counselor, Kris Uppendahl, shares a devotional about the power and significance of God’s story for all of humanity. Read the devotion here.
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We asked our students to share how their story connects with God’s story. Read their inspiring stories here.
Formation
Why story matters in adult education
Most APU Global students arrive mid-story: a career already underway, a family, a set of experiences that shaped them long before their first course. Treating education as the continuation of a story rather than a blank start changes how learning works, experience becomes material to think with, not baggage to overcome.
Calling
Vocation, not just career
A Christian understanding of vocation holds that work is a place of calling, not merely income. That reframes the degree question. Instead of asking only what job a program leads to, students ask what they are being formed to do, and for whom.
- Coursework that connects professional practice to purpose
- Faculty mentoring that takes your history seriously
- Chaplaincy and spiritual life support throughout your program
- A community of adult learners walking the same road
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Frequently asked questions
APU Global encourages students to explore how their individual life stories connect to God’s greater story through videos, essays, and devotionals from faculty, staff, and students. Most APU Global students arrive mid-story with a career, family, and experiences already shaping them, and the university treats that experience as material to think with rather than baggage to overcome.
APU Global holds that work is a place of calling, not merely income, which reframes the degree question beyond simply what job a program leads to. Students are encouraged to ask what they are being formed to do, and for whom, supported by coursework connecting professional practice to purpose, faculty mentoring, and chaplaincy and spiritual life resources.
APU Global offers faculty mentoring that takes students’ history seriously, chaplaincy and spiritual life support throughout a program, and a community of adult learners walking a similar road. This support reflects the university’s view of education as continuing a student’s life story rather than starting from a blank slate, within a fully online, Christ-centered environment.
Your story, continued