The Providence seal represents, in symbols and in words, the context and mission of Providence Christian College.The imagery of the seal represents the college’s context both literally and figuratively. It is an artist’s rendering of our literal, local context: the view north from our campus to the San Gabriel Mountains. Providence students hike in these mountains and have summited the tallest of them—Mt. San Antonio, or “Mt. Baldy”—many times, in the warmth of the California sunshine. Beyond the literal, however, these elements represent Providence’s spiritual context. They are suggestive of God’s providence coming down from above and His strength supporting and sustaining us from below. Together they form a picture of the grace and power that combine mysteriously  and wondrously in the person of God. The other elements in the seal convey Providence’s mission in this context.

The book icon at the bottom of the seal contains the date of the college’s founding in Latin (MMV for 2005). The traditional outer ring contains the college’s Latin motto, In Christo omnia nova. The fact that both are rendered in Latin is indicative of the college’s link to the old and venerable western collegiate tradition, in which Latin long served as the language of the schools.The college’s motto, In Christo omnia nova, when directly translated from the Latin, means simply ‘in Christ all things new.” There is, however, a lot packed into this little phrase without a verb. It derives biblical warrant from several passages in the New Testament that describe Jesus Christ’s reconciling work in the world (II Cor. 5:17; I Cor.15:22; Col. 1:15-23; Rev. 21:5), and it serves as a constant reminder both of the work that Providence is about and the One who is accomplishing that work. At the core of the college’s mission stands the fact that God is reconciling this fallen world to Himself through the death and resurrection of his son, Jesus Christ. This work begins with his redemption of sinners like us, and—in His time and by His power—extends to the restoration of a world that groans under the weight of our sin. At Providence, we are equipping students to know and trust in Christ’s redemptive work in their own lives, to embrace the truths of His word (which we believe to be so well articulated in the Reformed confessions), and to work out the implications of those truths for every dimension of life as they faithfully pursue their callings in this world.