Purpose Statement
The Created and Called for Community course applies the intellectual skills learned in First-Year Seminar to content directly related to Messiah College’s Mission, Identity, and Foundational Values. Created in the divine image, students are God’s agents for service, leadership, and reconciliation in the broader community. The course is designed to “nurture the moral imagination” by asking questions of life and learning, those questions which students engage in order to participate fully in their academic pursuits, service, and Christian vocation.

Catalog Description
The central question to be considered is: “What is my vocation as a faithful steward of God's creation?” Through examining literary, historical, artistic, philosophical and theological works, students engage in the biblical themes of forgiveness, compassion, non-violence, peacemaking, justice, and racial and gender reconciliation through the lens of the College’s unique religious identity and foundational values, with a particular focus on the importance of community.