WELCOME LAUP ALUMNI
You are the fulfillment of LAUP's mission.
If you are one of our LAUP alumni, we want to remind you that you are the most significant fruit LAUP has to offer the world. You have been a part of a unique history of God's compassion and justice in InterVarsity and in Los Angeles. Our hope is to encourage you as an agent of God's justice, power, and compassion in the world, and to give you the chance to continue to be a part of a movement of God. You are our most valuable resource in leading the next generation! Testimonies, teaching, and mentoring from LAUP alumni have consistently been some of the most helpful influences upon LAUP interns. Whether your career is in law, education, politics, business, high tech, or a stay at home parent, if you feel like you have some wisdom and hope to offer the next generation, we want to know! |
ALUMNI TESTIMONIES
Nathaly Moreno, Pomona College |
When I think about all that I’ve learned, the way I think, the way I perceive the world, the way I connect to God, or the way I relate to other people, I can honestly say that, in terms of all of these things, that there is a pre-LAUP Nathaly and a post-LAUP Nathaly. For years, I struggled with low self worth and my identity as a child of God and all the messages from the world reinforced this. (The fact that I now regularly refer to the truth of the Kingdom of God and the lies of the Kingdom of the World is also a sign that I’m a product of LAUP). I could never be pretty, smart, or talented enough. I doubted that God cared enough to actually communicate with me and I wondered where He was in the midst of all my struggles. Of course, there were times where I felt this more acutely more than other times, but there was always this underlying sense of doubt in God’s ability to break through and completely heal me from this negativity. |
Keefe Piper, Evergreen State College |
While I grew up mostly going to a Presbyterian church, I have some Catholic heritage. My mom comes from a strong Catholic family, I went to a Jesuit high school, and my family even went to a Catholic church in my early childhood. But by the time I got to college, I had walked away from faith altogether. |
Taylor Rapson, UCLA |
One of the most significant memories I have had at LAUP was early on in our trip. I was super convicted one day that I had been wasting my time at UCLA. I was sitting in drama with the older students at the Harambee Center (3rd through 6th graders) and was just thinking and day-dreaming when all of a sudden God slapped me across the face with the reality that I needed a new mindset. I had let my pride and fear of failure lead me to a state of laziness. |
TESTIFY AND TELL YOUR STORY
Build the movement by testifying and telling your story.
Whether it's a story of how LAUP played a role in shaping your life in the past, or how you're continuing to live out the values of LAUP in your life today, we'd love to hear it and we think others will, too. Our hope is to nurture an ongoing dialogue about God's heart for the poor and how we can creatively gain that heart and bring it to our world. To testify and tell your story go to the Los Angeles Urban Project Alumni Facebook page, and post it for others to read, respond, and be encouraged. |