The purpose of LAUP is to raise up communities of faith-rooted leaders that live out personal and systemic shalom1 in our world.

OUR MISSION
In working towards the beloved community2, together we bear witness to a holistic gospel, engage the creative power of faith, and work to restore broken shalom. We equip leaders to live out sustainable, prophetic faith that engages every campus community, vocational field, and neighborhood in collective healing and liberation. Through weekend and six-week summer discipleship programs, we work en conjunto3, partnering with communities of color in Los Angeles to root participants in prayerful activism, intelligent love4, mutual conversion5, and spiritual resilience. 
PRAYERFUL ACTIVISM
INTELLIGENT LOVE
MUTUAL CONVERSION
SPIRITUAL RESILIENCE

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ABOUT US

Our core values, staff, & history

OUR PROGRAMS

Our short-term opportunities

OUR COMMUNITY

Our alumni & community partners
1 As developed by Dr. Randy Woodley “Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision”
2 As developed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy#sub4
3 As developed by Loida Martell-Ortero & Jose David Rodriguez in “Teologia en Conjunto: A Collaborative Hispanic Protestant Theology”
4 As developed by Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra in “Faith Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World”
5 As developed by Yu-Shuan Tarango-Sho for the Jesus, Justice and Poverty Institute
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