Zachary Luben (’05, MDiv ’14) has been named the director of pupil convocation at
Pepperdine College’s Seaver School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Luben, a two-time graduate of Seaver School, has been serving the Seaver group
since 2016. He started his employment as an adjunct college member within the Faith Division
and most just lately has served because the director of graduate pupil ministries on the
Hub for Non secular Life.
“I’m excited and honored to step into this necessary position,” says Luben. “Convocation’s
historical past at Pepperdine is lengthy and rooted within the DNA of the College as a Christian
establishment. As an undergraduate pupil within the early 2000s, I keep in mind listening to from
audio system who challenged me and helped me develop in my Christian religion. I look ahead
to persevering with its wealthy historical past because the director of pupil convocation by creating
alternatives for college students to expertise God’s steadfast love, develop of their data
of Jesus, and be invited to like God and others properly.”
Luben has intensive expertise main each campus and youth ministries. As well as
to his work with the Hub for Non secular Life, he serves the College as this system
director of CrossWays, a nine-day management program that challenges highschool college students
to suppose theologically about their vocation, and because the pastoral director of Communitas,
an early-career program for pastors to broaden their creativeness for preaching. In
each of those roles, Luben has gained important expertise in creating transformative
tutorial and theological packages that enrich the non secular lives of the individuals.
In flip, they’ve uniquely ready him to steer Pupil Convocation.
“I can not envision an individual higher geared up to steer Pupil Convocation at Seaver
School than Zachary Luben,” says Michael Feltner, dean of Seaver School. “Zac has
devoted his life to sharing the excellent news of Jesus Christ with folks of all ages,
particularly youth and younger adults. I’m assured his management of the convocation
program will enliven non secular growth for all Seaver college students, as the faculty
works alongside College companions to manifest our Christian mission in all college students.
I’m thrilled Zac has embraced this chance and sit up for supporting him
as we collaborate with our group to understand the complete potential of the convocation
program.”
Past his ministerial acumen, Luben is also a talented educator and scholar. With
a grasp’s diploma in divinity from Pepperdine College, he has taught Faith 101
as an adjunct professor at Seaver School for the previous seven years. Within the midst of
his work for Pepperdine, Luben developed, carried out, and instructed an internet course
relating to youth and household ministry at Rochester College. Exterior the classroom,
he has been invited to talk on subjects starting from pastoral preaching to his experiences
as an Asian American minister. Luben has printed one scholarly textual content entitled “Pastor
as Poet of the Soul” in Discernment: Theology and the Follow of Ministry.
“Zac understands the complexities of the place he’s getting into. Particularly,
he comprehends the varied backgrounds that college students convey to non secular life,” says
Paul Start, affiliate dean of curriculum and basic schooling and a member of the
pupil convocation director choice committee. “Zac could be very educated of the
panorama of non secular life amongst rising adults. He’s concurrently properly versed
within the analysis and deeply dedicated to stroll with college students by way of the method of
creating their very own non secular commitments.”
Previous to his profession in larger schooling, Luben was a full-time youth minister at each
the Lengthy Seaside Church of Christ and Culver Palms Church of Christ. In these roles,
he mentored, educated, and preached to each junior excessive and highschool college students,
in addition to the congregation at giant. Luben, his spouse, Christina, and their son, Jude,
are at present members of the Culver Palms Church of Christ, the place he serves frequently
as a volunteer and trusted member of the group.
The convocation program at Seaver School is designed to welcome first- and second-year
college students, introducing them to the mission and Christian group at Pepperdine College.
Throughout the 2023–2024 tutorial yr, Seaver will institute and ship a revised convocation
program centered round augmenting every pupil’s sense of non secular progress, character
formation, and pursuit of knowledge. In taking on as director of pupil convocation,
Luben will play an integral position in nurturing this renewed program, which balances
the College’s twin tenets of educational excellence and Christian values.
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