Spiritual deepening week ends with challenge to ‘dwell’ and love others

By Lauren Steinbrook

News and Engagement Editor

Trevecca’s annual Spiritual Deepening Week has come to a close, leaving students with a call from guest speaker Michaele LaVigne to become good neighbors who reflect the love of Jesus.

Spiritual Deepening Week is a campus tradition each semester designed to create space for the Trevecca community to pause from their routines, gather for worship and prayer, and seek a deeper relationship with God.

This semester’s theme, “Dwell,” invited students to consider what it means to remain rooted in Christ in their daily lives. LaVigne opened the week on Monday night with a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood–themed chapel, where she and University Chaplain Erik Gernand kicked off the evening by taking off their shoes and putting on sweaters. setting up the theme for the week, to explore what it means to be a good neighbor, pointing to Jesus as the ultimate example.

LaVigne serves as Director of the spiritual formation initiative at Nazarene Theological Seminary. She graduated with a degree in educational ministries from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and aslo attended Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio.

She has served in pastoral ministry for nineteen years in a wide variety of contexts, including volunteer missions in Africa and church planting. She is also the author of Living the Way of Jesus, Changed in the Waiting, and several other co-authored titles from The Foundry.  

Students who missed a session or want to revisit LaVigne’s messages can find recordings from spiritual deepening week on the Trevecca Chapel YouTube channel.