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This Week in Photos: April 2-6

This week was filled with blooming flowers, a guest speaker and an Interfaith Passover Seder. Take a look below at what happened this week in photos.

HPU Students Spend Spring Break Serving Haiti and Houston

From leveling a foundation to installing walls, HPU students built a family’s home during their week of service in Haiti. HIGH POINT, N.C., March 15, 2018 – During spring break this year, High Point University students celebrated the values of service, selflessness and generosity by giving back to communities around the world. Through the Alternative […]

The Different Routes of HPU’s Walk of Faith

This story is featured in the Fall 2017 edition of the HPU Magazine. Discover below how HPU’s Religious Life helps students dig deep to find who they are and what they represent. The Rev. Preston Davis sounds like an excited professor when he talks about faith and its effect on the students he sees. He should know. […]

This Week in Photos: Feb. 5 – 9

This week brought appreciation of Black History Month at the Black Heritage Worship Service and family fun at the Winter Family Weekend. Below is a look at what happened this week in photos.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Honored at HPU’s Annual Worship Service

HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 15, 2018 – Change agents must be audacious. That’s the message Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie shared today with community members, students, faculty and staff at High Point University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship service. “Audacity is believing that you have something to offer that no one has yet given,” […]

HPU Students Raise $15,000 for Angel Tree Program

HIGH POINT, N.C., Dec. 12, 2017 – High Point University students give offerings at weekly services in the Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel with a special group of people in mind. As a longstanding tradition, the chapel’s Board of Stewards collects the fall semester offerings to support the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program. This semester, […]

This Week in Photos: Dec. 4 – 8

This week brought chilly temperatures and warm hearts to campus from celebrating Hanukkah at 1924 Prime, to the Prayer Breakfast and a snowy Friday. Here is a look at what happened this week in photos.

HPU Students Take Part in Spiritual Pilgrimage to Reignite Faith and Service

Jacob Lancaster, Andria Williamson and Katharina Poppinger visit Open Door Ministries in High Point. HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 31, 2017 – Several High Point University students recently took part in the Fall Pilgrimage – a week of programming intersecting spirituality and service that allowed students to explore different communities of faith and faith-based organizations around […]

Class of 2017 Profile: Sydney Richards Studies Divinity at Duke University

With another successful commencement behind us, recent High Point University graduates are preparing to commence prestigious career paths around the world at Fortune 500 companies, international service programs, public school systems, top-tier law, medical and graduate school programs, and many other esteemed organizations thanks to their journey at HPU. Here’s a glimpse of one extraordinary […]

HPU Community Gathers for Annual Black Heritage Service

HIGH POINT, N.C., March 1, 2017 – High Point University’s fourth annual Black Heritage Service brought students, faculty and community members together in Hayworth Chapel on Feb. 26. Hosted by HPU’s Black Cultural Awareness Club, the service was a special time of sharing African-American heritage, listening to the voices of the black experience, and […]

6 Things You Should Know About the HPU Campus

Over the past decade, High Point University has attracted the attention of people worldwide. In addition to academic milestones, part of what puts HPU on the map is its inspiring environment – so much so that HPU’s campus was named one of the top five in the nation. But it goes beyond the brick architecture […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Honored at HPU’s Annual Worship Service

HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 16, 2017 – Priorities were the focus of High Point University’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worship service inside the Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel today. In his message, Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, resident bishop of the South Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, challenged the community members, […]

Students Raise $7,500 for Angel Tree Program

HIGH POINT, N.C., Dec. 14, 2016 – There were school uniforms, baby swings, dolls and bicycles in the shopping carts that High Point University’s Board of Stewards filled on Dec. 9. But there was a face, a name and a mission behind each item, too – making Christmas bright for 75 families in the city […]

Students Share Jewish Traditions at Hanukkah Dinner

HIGH POINT, N.C., Dec. 8, 2016 – High Point University’s Jewish students shared their faith and holiday traditions with the HPU community during the fifth annual Hanukkah dinner on Dec. 5. This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Dec. 24 and lasts through Jan. 1. The university holds the Hanukkah dinner for the entire campus […]

HPU to Host Annual Lessons and Carols Candlelight Service

HIGH POINT, N.C., Nov. 22, 2016 – High Point University will bring the community together to remember and retell the Christmas story during the annual Lessons and Carols Candlelight Service at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 in the Charles E. Hayworth Memorial Chapel. The public is invited to attend; tickets are not required. This is […]

October Extraordinary Leader: A Servant Leader with a Big Heart

Tiffany Jones loves asking hard questions. Her advisor, Dr. Pamela Palmer, knows that. So does her best friend, Lily Kate Tollison. So, it surprises no one who knows her to hear her plans: Go to divinity school and later work for a social justice non-profit after graduating in May with a double major in religion and […]

September Extraordinary Leader: ‘A Seeker of Truth’

For Matt Warrick, it happened by chance. He was walking between classes when he ran into the Rev. Preston Davis, the campus minister. Like always, they talked. But this time, they talked about what keeps Warrick’s mind always busy – the intellectual intersection of science and spirituality. Warrick shared with Rev. Davis one of his […]

Class of 2016 Profile: Leigh Thomas Styles for Ralph Lauren on Fifth Avenue

Minister Receives Francis Asbury Award from United Methodist Church

HIGH POINT, N.C., July 20, 2016 – The Rev. Preston Davis, minister to High Point University, was honored with the Francis Asbury Award during the annual Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church at Lake Junaluska. The national award is presented annually by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the […]

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