Dear SPU Parents,
The 2025–26 academic year is almost underway. Your students will soon settle into their dorms. The professors will begin giving assignments. Then as now, the staff’s pride in the beauty of the campus is evidenced by the way they are caring for it. Even now, there is a spirit of expectation and excitement. In our chapel services, there will be an awareness of God’s presence through dynamic speakers and Christ-honoring worship.
As an institution founded by devoted Christians in 1891, º£½ÇÍø Pacific has always recognized the importance of prayer. In fact, on the second floor of Alexander and Adelaide Hall (the oldest building on campus, and pictured above) is Kroon Prayer Chapel. This beautiful space offers a piece of quiet to provide students, faculty, and staff a place to sit in the presence of the Lord. Likewise, prayer remains a means by which you can support your students in this academic year.
The purpose of this quarterly newsletter is to assist you with practical suggestions of how to pray for your student. I also want to encourage you to email me at asimakoupoug@spu.edu with your prayer requests throughout the quarter.
Grace and peace,
Rev. Greg Asimakoupoulos
SPU Parent Prayer Guide Writer
Autumn Quarter prayer prompts
“Ask and you’ll receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be open to you.” Matthew 7:7
- Ask the Lord to encourage students who are dealing with homesickness.
- Pray for students who have fallen behind their studies due to procrastination.
- Pray for students to make smart decisions as they face new-found freedom.
- Seek the Lord on behalf of those who are beginning a dating relationship.
- Ask the Lord to sensitize professors to the individual needs of their students.
“Cast your cares upon the Lord for he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:6
- Ask the Lord to touch those staff and students with health needs.
- Pray for a spirit of revival to sweep across the campus.
- Ask the Lord to keep athletes free from injury in their games and matches.
- Pray for those who will be leading chapel services.
- Pray for President Porterfield as she shares her vision with new and returning students.
“But I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress and he hears my voice.” Psalm 55:16–27
- Pray for the resident assistants in the dorms to be alert to the needs of their floor.
- Ask the Lord to help professors find meaningful ways to express their faith in class.
- Pray for those faculty and staff who have learned their jobs will not be renewed next year.
- Pray for those workers who keep the facilities and grounds in attractive working order.
- Ask the Lord to encourage students dealing with depression.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory …” Ephesians 3:20
- Pray for international students who are having a difficult time adjusting to a new culture.
- Pray for non-Christian students to hear with clarity the meaning of God’s love for them.
- Ask the Lord to use time away from home to strengthen students’ love for their parents.
- Pray for students to develop study habits that will serve them well for years to come.
- Ask the Lord to inspire generosity among those who have a history of supporting SPU.
Rev. Greg Asimakoupoulos is a 1974 SPU graduate, longtime author, and retired pastor.
With over four decades of ministry experience in California, Illinois, and Washington, Greg now serves
as º£½ÇÍø Pacific’s volunteer alumni ambassador. A passionate advocate for encouraging prayer and
spiritual connection within the SPU community, he brings warmth, insight, and pastoral care to the SPU
Parents’ Prayer Network.