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ARE YOU GRADUATING? FINAL NOTICE: The Word of God International University CLASS of 2026 Achievement/Awards Banquet, August 28, 2026 @ 6PM and Graduation Commencement Ceremony, August 29, 2026 @ 11AM
Event Details
Time: May 10, 2026 to August 31, 2026
Location: Loving to Learn Association, The Word of God International Univesity
Street: 3650 S Western Avenue
City/Town: Los Angeles 90018
Website or Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d…
Phone: (323) 75-LIGHT (5-4448) or (323) 402-0422
Event Type: celebration, graduation, announcement, fundraiser
Organized By: Archbishop Dr. Joshua Smith, President, Loving to Learn Association, Evangelist Dr. Sherilyn Smith, Executive Director, and Dr. Tanya McDonald, Academic Dean
Latest Activity: Aug 17
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Event Description
WGIU COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
We will host a formal graduation commencement ceremony for all our undergraduate, graduate, and honorary doctorate candidates, recognizing distinguished entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and humanitarians who have made significant contributions in their respective fields and communities.
If you would like to nominate someone to receive an honorary degree from The Word of God International University for outstanding lifetime achievement, please ask them if they would like to be a candidate. If so, send a letter, nominating them by email to lovingtolearn2@gmail.com and learn@lovingtolearn.org no later than Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
FOR HONORARY DEGREE NOMINEES:
FIRST STEP: In a well written recommendation, we need someone to formally endorse you as a nominee.
Your Endorsement Letter should highlight from at least 10 to over 25 years of lifetime achievement in ministerial service. It should include why they believe you should be a candidate. If possible, this letter should be emailed to learn@lovingtolearn and lovingtolearn2@gmail.com before Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
SECOND STEP: Please review the WGIU ONLINE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS (upper left) and COURSES AND ENROLLMENT (upper right) tabs on our website at www.wgiuniversity.org. On the COURSES AND ENROLLMENT TABS, scroll down to the last tab and open tab. You can download, fill out, scan, and email or fax all Enrollment Forms back to us. You are required to meet Certification Requirements in order for you to receive your diploma.
$175 should be donated for enrollment, using the PayPal button in the comment section of this page or anywhere on our website. A donation of $20,000 is welcomed for advancing our ministerial and community development. Your tax-deductible receipt will immediately go to your email. If it's convenient for you to visit us, do so by calling (323) 402-0422 and making an appointment or our office at (323) 73-LIGHT (5-4448).
THIRD STEP: We need a Resume/Curriculum Vitae, Bio, Picture, and Letter of Intent, substantiating at least 10 to over 25 years of ministry.
FOURTH STEP: You can come into our office, mail, or donate online $1,200 (M.Div./D.Min) by Tuesday, August 18th for our graduation fee only. You are still required to complete ministerial training to meet profession, credential, government, and business requirements to run a religious order and educational society in order to receive your diploma.
FIFTH STEP: You must immediately call (323) 73-LIGHT (5-4448) and make an appointment. Whether you meet with us in our office, by phone, or by Zoom, checklists are required for your honorary degrees and must be cleared for you to receive your diploma no later than Friday, November 1, 2026.
If necessary, you have 7 years to satisfactorily fulfill all requirements in Post-Graduate Internship, residency, and fellowship following commencement ceremonies. The requirements are listed in the 2023-24 WGIU Catalog Handbook on pages 13 and 14.
Call for any questions or any other arrangements. You may negotiate your Graduation Fee payments. RSVP, reviewing comment section on this page.
Presiding Archbishop Joshua Smith, PhD, DD, President
Evangelist Sherilyn Smith, PhD, Executive Director
LOVING TO LEARN ASSOCIATION
Archbishop Perry Moore, PhD, Chancellor
Tanya McDonald, D. Min., Academic Dean
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Today's Verse - Psalm 27:14
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
If there is anything we don’t like to do, it is to wait. Maybe that is why God is so interested in us learning to do it - to learn to prayerfully wait on him. There is something purifying about remaining strong in tough times and remaining faithful when ill winds blow. So God gives us times to wait on him to see whether our search is really about him or merely looking for an easy way out of our messes. I don't know about you, but I am going to wait on the LORD because that's where my future, my hope, and my strength will come from.
My Prayer...
Loving Father, I know you have waited patiently for me so many times - for me to show my faith, repent of my sins, grow in holiness, come to you in prayer, act more maturely, give to those who cannot return my grace and care, and you have waited on me for so many other things and in so many other times. Thank you! Thank you for waiting! Now please help me be strong and take heart as I wait for you to show me your way to handle my decisions, act to meet my needs, reveal your presence in my loneliness, and let me see your coming deliverance. I really do seek you with all my heart. So, dear Father, in Jesus' name, I wait and trust in you. Amen.
All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.Today's Verse - Psalm 25:14-15
The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
Where does true deliverance come from? Only from God. Deliverance is found in God through deep reverential respect for his holiness and strength, through living faithfully in covenant relationship with him, and through maintaining our focus and dependence upon him. Any other roads to deliverance are false shortcuts that ultimately prove themselves to be a snare. Like the tightrope walker whose eyes are not on the ground or the surroundings, but on the rope in front of him where he will walk, so too our eyes must be on the LORD. Only by looking to him will he lead us to safety and from the snares of the one who longs to have us and destroy us. Our eyes must be ever on the LORD because we trust that he will lead us away from "temptation" and "deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13).
My Prayer...
Precious Father, you have done so much to save me. You, who are so holy and righteous, have reached down to take my hand when I was a sinner and in rebellion against your love (Romans 5:8-11). You saved me by your grace. Now, please teach me your ways. Please correct the wrongs in my life. Please guide me into the ways of your truth. I want to be saved not only from my past sins, but also from days of uselessness, vanity, and frustration. So I offer myself to you as a vessel to be used to honor you. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.Today's Verse - Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
God does so much for us. He is the Rock and Redeemer that undergirds our lives. He is the One who has saved us from sin and death. Our worship comes from our gratitude for what he has done, recognition of who he is, and anticipation of what he is going to do. But worship can never be compartmentalized to just fit into church places or quiet times (Colossians 3:16-17). Worship involves every aspect of life (Hebrews 12:28-13:16). That is why it is so important to tune our hearts so the words of our mouths and the motives of our hearts align with God's will and work. Then our private worship, whether alone in quiet or in a group with fellow believers, becomes the tuning fork for our hearts and lives so that our public worship, our lives lived out in the world, will play the song of God to a world that has not yet heard or learned his tune of loving grace.
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My Prayer...
O Holy and Almighty God, I want this day to be a day of worship and honor to you. May my life praise you: not just in my thoughts, not just in my words, and not just in my songs, but also in my actions. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.
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