TKU Stories
Dani Williams

Dani Williams

Being an online student at TKU, I wasn’t planning to go to graduation. I had a million reasons not to go. I didn’t know if anyone would come see me walk across the stage, and I felt like it wasn’t necessary. After all, I was taking my classes online from Hays, Kansas,...

Rachael Gilbert

Rachael Gilbert

I had just dropped my girls off at Gateway Church for an all-day, kid’s KAIROS event. We don’t live in Southlake, so I started driving, not sure how I was going to use my kid-free time. But as I drove past The King’s University, I immediately felt God tell me to make...

The Hartsell-Byrd Family

The Hartsell-Byrd Family

When Cassandra Hartsell needs to borrow a textbook, she doesn’t need to look far. In fact, there are three other TKU students in her own family. Her three daughters Chloe, Carissa Byrd, and Caity Byrd, attend The King’s University with Cassandra all at the same time....

Sarah Sanders

Sarah Sanders

As a small child, Sarah Sanders’ life was far from ordinary. Her father, Jim, was a traveling evangelist known to many in Australia and Hungary as “the American missionary.” “We would travel throughout Eastern Europe for months at a time,” says Sarah. “I remember as a...

Juan Maureira

Juan Maureira

“I remember God showing me a vision of an hourglass, and telling me, ‘Your time is up. Are you ready to commit?’” Juan Maureira recounts. Knowing that God called him to ministry as a young boy, Juan had always been involved in the church, but chose to pursue a career...

Danica Henry

Danica Henry

For most of us, Big Texas cinnamon rolls and Welch’s grape juice might bring to mind visions of road trips and gas station breakfasts. For Chicago native Danica Henry, those two items delivered in a brown paper sack carried a much weightier message. They were God’s...

Amy Ogden

Amy Ogden

“I knew without any confusion or doubt that it was the Lord that guided me to TKU. It was the first time in my life that I knew I was doing what I was suppose to, a recognition for a higher calling on my life.” Amy Ogden was taking core classes at a nearby college...

Blake Sharp

Blake Sharp

As the saying goes, When one door closes, another opens. Blake Sharp’s life is one that has been marked by this type of transition time and time again.Having grown up outside of the Church, Blake never imagined he might someday be called to missions. Nonetheless, he...

Brandon Bailey

Brandon Bailey

Brandon Bailey is a native Texan attending our main campus in Southlake, Texas. God began stirring his heart to attend seminary several years prior to this campus launch, but when he heard that The Kings was coming to partner with Gateway Church, he said he knew that...

Chandler Schmitz

Chandler Schmitz

Born in Forth Worth, Chandler Schmitz grew up in the panhandle of Texas and later returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to pursue a degree in Theological Studies at TKU’s main campus in Southlake. Obeying the voice of the Lord combined with her love for studying...