Mission Statement
"The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Olivet Nazarene University offers a diverse set of specialty programs that have the central mission of enhancing human health and well-being, as well as impacting the quality of goods and services in response to human needs across the life cycle. Teaching strategies that integrate Christian principles are targeted to all levels of environmental systems, including individuals, families and communities alike. The programs offered in the Department focus on professional preparation while emphasizing the importance of a liberal education in the arts, humanities, and sciences."
Family and Consumer Sciences Theme: "All for One and One for All"
A theme statement exists to help students and faculty communicate the department mission, especially the integrative nature of the multiple specializations (majors) in the Family and Consumer Science Department. The theme statement is as follows: "As members of God's family, we may have different interest and gifts, but we have the common goal of sharing our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. Family and Consumer Sciences at Olivet Nazarene University includes six majors that are joined together as one department. Graduates of the department are prepared for Christ-centered service to all types of individuals, families and communities."This theme statement is based on the New Testament scripture, I Corinthians 12:12-13, 27-31. "The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink". "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues….But eagerly desire the greater gifts."