Spiritual Life
IWU is a Christ-centered academic community that sees spiritual formation as everyone’s privilege and responsibility. The spiritual formation of our community is not the work of any one office or discipline, but the most important place of campus-wide collaboration and intentionality.
IWU is a worshipping community that gathers for chapel every Monday and Friday at 10:05 am to dive into Scripture, worship and pray. This community-wide gathering is more than a requirement; it is an identity-forming and culture-shaping community rhythm that continually reminds us of who we are.
In addition, IWU also invites students to gather every Wednesday at 10:05am and throughout the week in smaller groups for the purpose of deep, inner transformation. The authentic vulnerability found in consistent, smaller gatherings is a hallmark of the Wesleyan tradition and a priority for IWU. It is in the context of these smaller gatherings that Christian faith goes beyond an intellectual understanding to an inward transformation by the Spirit.
Chapel and small groups weave together to create a supportive framework for the formative work all over our campus. Similar to the way that a trellis supports and provides structure for a vine to grow, gathering in an intentional and rhythmic way provides a supportive framework for spiritual formation to happen daily in classrooms, on athletic teams, on ministry teams, at student-led worship events and in dorm rooms.
All undergraduate residential students earn 25 Spiritual Formation Credits over the course of their any semester by attending chapel, small groups, or an alternative chapel event. To see requirements for commuter students and credit reductions, visit the student handbook found here
http://www.indwes.edu/Life-At-IWU/IWU-Student-Handbook.
