About Us

In late 2002 a small group of dedicated Christians met and discussed the calling we felt from the Lord to begin a ministry at McKendree University. McKendree is a Methodist University that was originally founded as a seminary to train and equip pastors to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. Over the years the gospel message has been diluted to the point that students were graduating from McKendree with no idea that they were attending a Christian college.

The Lord blessed our calling by providing a building free of charge for our ministry to use that is located only 2 blocks from the McKendree campus and on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2003 we began serving the needs of students there. We believe that we are making a difference in the lives of students by making Christ an issue on campus, in the town of Lebanon, and in the Metro East.

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If you would like to come and worship with us please feel welcome to do so. We are open to students and others of all faiths or no faith at all. All are welcome. But you need to be warned that we are passionate about telling people about the Good News that Jesus Christ died and was resurrected to provide a sacrifice for our sins.

In the Bible in John 14:6 Jesus declairs,

"I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

That verse is our rallying point. The concept that Jesus alone can save is why we exist.

In John 10:9 Jesus also said,

I am the Gate. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. A theif comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.

This verse is inscribed above the doorway to our worship area. Jesus Christ is our Gate.