About the John Perkins Center at SPU
Founded in 2004, the John Perkins Center helps students engage in discipleship and become leaders in the areas of justice, community development, and reconciliation. The Center is also a University-based, interdisciplinary research institute working to better understand structural disparities and develop more effective systemic strategies for alleviating those disparities.
The vision of the Center is to see generations of global urban leaders, organizations, and institutions engaging the culture and changing the world by modeling reconciliation and contributing to community health and wholeness
Whether on campus, in the city, or internationally, the Perkins Center serves as resource by working with and equipping leaders for the work of reconciliation and community development in diverse and global communities.
Dig Deeper
Our vision is to see generations of global urban leaders, organizations, and institutions engaging the culture and changing the world by modeling reconciliation and contributing to community health and wholeness. |
Meet the reconciliation advocate and evangelical civil rights leader behind the Perkins Center. |
Read the charge from then SPU president, Philip W. Eaton. |
SPU's Response magazine explores reconciliation and the work of the John Perkins Center in their Winter 2009 issue. |
Meet the hard-working John Perkins Center staff. |
Commitments of the Perkins Center
- Build bridges, partnerships, and collaborative programs to serve the urban community in Seattle and beyond.
- Engage and train Christian leaders in the work of reconciliation and community development.
- Facilitate thoughtful reflection and scholarship nationally on reconciliation and community development.
- Recruit more students, faculty, and staff of color for the SPU community and continuing to shape our own campus culture to model racial and ethnic reconciliation and community health and wholeness.