Oklahoma Christian University Opens New Spiritual Life Center
Oklahoma Christian University (OC) unveiled its new Spiritual Life Center and Ministers’ Lounge during a special Prayer Breakfast held at the Meinders Conference Center. The event brought together over 70 church leaders, ministers and pastors from across the community for fellowship and celebration of God's work in students' lives as the new academic year begins.
The new Center represents OC's “Kingdom University” philosophy in action, creating dedicated spaces that foster spiritual unity among students and strengthen bonds with fellow Christians in the community. The Ministers’ Lounge offers a relaxing environment for community campus ministers to meet and build relationships with students and one another.
"The idea for the Center came from our desire to strengthen partnerships with community churches and create a truly Kingdom-focused university experience," said Scott Young, Dean of Spiritual Life at OC. "We wanted to provide a central space where students can grow spiritually together, while also fostering deeper connections between our campus and the broader Christian community.”
The interfaith event focused on collaborative ministry to area college students and highlighted how different congregations can work together.
"The collective light of the mosaic of churches in the land is brilliant," prayed Phil Brookman, Pulpit Minister at Memorial Road Church of Christ. "Help us to remember that even though we live in an era of a thousand splintering tributaries of the Christian stream, they come from the same River."
The Spiritual Life Center and Ministers’ Lounge is in the Williams-Branch Center for Biblical Studies on OC’s campus and is now open to the public.
“The OC prayer breakfast was encouraging to be part of. We were able to connect with ministers around our city and state and pray expectantly for what the Lord might do,” said Branden Dillard, Ministry Associate at Henderson Hills Baptist Church. “Prayer is one of the primary works of ministry, and to get to partner along with OC in that was special.”
For more information, please visit oc.edu.
