Our Vision

Proclaiming the Gospel

The vision of College Church is summarized in three words: “Proclaiming the Gospel.” This higher purpose elevates and focuses all our activities. We have identified five initiatives for the purpose of proclaiming the gospel.

Pathway. We structure our ministries so that you can Discover Jesus, Grow in Your Faith, and Impact the World. Our goal is to call a pastor of evangelism by June 2023 to lead the discover portion of this pathway.

Community. We are a community that cultivates care, encouragement and connection. Our goal is to mobilize us all to care for each other, call a community life pastor, and have increased use of counseling with designated space in the Crossings.

Discipleship. We will elevate biblically rigorous and practical discipleship. Our goal is to explore more adult communities and two churchwide educational seminars on matters of current discipleship importance by December 2023.

Campus. We will increasingly activate our campus. Our goal is to utilize the Crossings as a crossover space to reach our community, for student and family space, with phase 2 plan established and capital campaign launched by December 2023.

Planting. We will leverage the church’s history of church planting, training programs, and connections across the country and world. Our goal is to plant multiple new churches in partnership with likeminded churches by 2030.

Discipleship Update

1) Our Discipleship Committee continues to work at increasing our personal disciple-making efforts within the life of College Church by casting and modeling a vision for more intensive discipleship within the context of mentorled groups of two or three.

2) Our Adult Communities (AC) are growing. The newest of our Adult Communities are Living Word, Life Together and Thrive. All three meet during the 9:30 hour. Life Together meets in Commons Gym and is geared primarily for people in their mid-20s-40s from all walks of life. Living Word meets in two sections of Commons Hall. The teaching team includes Doug Moo, Felipe Chamy, and Josh Maurer. They recently finished studying 1 and 2 Thessalonians and are now in Philippians. Thrive is our newest class, started to provide biblical community for all people, primarily in their 40s to mid-50s. They meet in the main space of Clapham in the (middle section) of Crossings. This brings our number of ACs to eight, and we continue to explore the creation of more communities at different hours.

3) There are many challenges and issues in our world worthy of special attention. The first of these special workshops/seminars is in the planning stage and will focus on biblical sexuality. Watch for details about this seminar in future issues of Connections.

CURRENT JOB OPENINGS AT COLLEGE CHURCH INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

• Ministry Associate for STARS Respite Care (10-16 hours per week) See details: https://bit.ly/41b1fQB

• Sales Associate for Twice is Nice Resale (10-15 hours per week) See details: https://bit.ly/3kcKST6

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For more information, please contact Ann Karow at: akarow@college-church.org