Active Faith

Education at Christian liberal arts colleges is about more than academic competence. It's also about spiritual formation. The Chapel Office at Gordon College provides various programs to support students in their spiritual growth and encourage full-life discipleship to Jesus. This includes corporate worship services, spiritual-life groups, mentoring relationships, pastoral counseling and service-learning and mission trips.

Professed Christian Faith

Gordon College strives to deliberately cultivate an explicitly Christian community of scholars:

All members of our community—students, faculty, staff and administrators—are required to read a Statement of Faith, and abide by a Life and Conduct Statement. These documents guide and inspire the development of our faithful community within a complex world.

As a part of the application process, students are required to provide a faith testimony for enrollment.

Commitment to Global Service and Missions

In the 2023-2024 academic year:

Almost 1,000 hours spent in community engaged learning experiences with 16 partners on the North Shore and Greater Boston Area.
Over 200 students participated in community engaged learning experiences.
On campus community events were made possible with the help of:
- 120 students who participated in Harvest Festival
- 52 students and 11 faculty who were involved in hosting our Community STEM Day
- 23 students and five faculty/staff who helped host College Day
- Ten students and six faculty/staff who hosted Boston Project Ministries Youth on their campus visit day
Global missions to places around the globe (e.g. Ecuador, Wales, Jamaica, Iceland, Uganda, and many more) with 85 student participants.