Clarksville, TN - Grace Community Church

Our main purpose in doing college ministry at Grace Community Church is not to yank college students from some sin infested college dorm room, fraternity party or mythical third party assumption of college life.  In having conversation with people around town, folks usually ask me what I do for a living.  I respond that I am a college pastor, investing in the lives of college students.  99% of the time, their response is "Oh they need it.  It is a terrible place these days."  

As I have spent time on campus and spent time getting to know college students, this is an absolute false assumption.  It seems like there is some bad news channel feeding the American public information that college students wake up at 10 am with a bunk bed full of empty beer bottles, half smoked joints and a smorgasbord of sinful habits all around.  While this may happen, a lot of really great things happen on a college campus.  

Our purpose at Grace Community Church is to come along side of great things already happening at APSU and serve students, faculty and staff there so that they see that Jesus has a huge plan for their life.

My heart is that college students would run with reckless abandon toward Jesus, living passionately making his name famous on their campus.  

College is a unique time in a young man and a young woman's life.  Our job is not to take them from a situation, but rather to put them in a place where they can influence their generation to live like Jesus. What other ministry has the opportunity to send out a fresh batch of the sharpest leaders all across the globe to serve their community for Jesus?  What other ministry has the unique responsibility of training leaders who leave every six months to live in the major cities influencing the major corporations across the globe?   

College ministry is an opportunity for the church to partner with and invest in young leaders to continue the movement of Jesus across the world so that there will be a global awakening for Christ.