The mission of Abilene Christian University is to educate students for Christian service and leadership throughout the world.  This mission is achieved through:exemplary teaching, offered by a faculty of Christian scholars, that inspires a commitment to learning significant research, grounded in the university's disciplines of study, that informs issues of importance to the academy, church, and society; meaningful service to society, the academic disciplines, the university, and the church, expressed in various ways, by all segments of the Abilene Christian University community.