LeTourneau University has emerged as one of America's great Christian universities. Quietly and perhaps with too little fanfare, the institution has developed from Mr. LeTourneau's technical institute to a comprehensive university with six schools of recognized academic quality. Our residential campus in Longview is near capacity with record enrollment. Nearly two thousand additional students are enrolled in graduate and professional programs across Texas and online from around the world.
God has used the faculty, staff, and students of LeTourneau University to do great things in the past 60 years. It will be exciting to see what's next.
A campus committee charged with strategic planning for the university's future is today sending thousands of emails across the LeTourneau Nation asking what others see as next for this fine institution. What are we doing well and not so well? What opportunities do we have for new academic programs? Where is God working and how can we continue to join Him in that work?
The University Board of Trustees approved a vision statement in 2008:
Claiming every workplace in every nation as our mission field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see their life's work as a holy calling with eternal impact.
This vision follows directly from our founding. R.G. LeTourneau was a strong voice for allowing God to use your unique gifts and talents for ministry even if full-time Christian ministry was not your calling. He claimed his workplace as a mission field and used his business and engineering opportunities to point others to Christ. This vision also challenges us today to send more graduates into more workplaces. It challenges us to join the Holy Spirit in the growth of the faith around the world.
It is clear that God has uniquely equipped LeTourneau University to answer Christ's Great Commission in the workplace by graduating competent professionals with a Christian worldview and a heart for serving others. The engineers, aviators, teachers, scientists, and business professionals who leave here can have eternal impact, one workplace and one life at a time.
How do we best implement this vision over the years to come? That's the task of our strategic planning. If you receive an invitation to participate in our survey, please take a few moments and do so (your responses will go straight to an independent research group and remain confidential). And please pray that we will listen to God's direction and proceed in a Matthew 6:33 manner, seeking first the kingdom of God in all we do.
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