Christensen Center for Vocation
The Christensen Center for Vocation at Augsburg University equips and accompanies students, staff, faculty, and ministry leaders as they discover together how we are called to show up as neighbor in the world. These learning partnerships happen through a variety of initiatives that foster learning experiences and creative collaborations for all.
The Christensen Scholars Program is a community of ten upper-level Augsburg University students who spend a full academic year together in a seminar style course. Christensen Scholars engage in a deeper interdisciplinary exploration of Christian theological reflection and vocational discernment related to their personal lives and social realities of the world they live in.
The Confluence is an annual weeklong on-campus experience in the summer each year for high school students to gain deeper insight into who they are and the life they want to live as children of God. The Confluence is an experience that empowers young people to be curious about how their personal story, the world’s story, and God’s story flow together to create a loving and just world.
The Riverside Innovation Hub is an incubator for people and communities exploring the public church in the neighborhood. In addition to the learning communities, the Hub is launching two additional projects: a book amplifying young adult voices to the church, and an online network where people can learn from and support one another in their work to become public church.