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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

As someone who first graced the stage at the age of three and began leading worship in kid’s church by nine, Katelynn Sparks may not seem to be in need of a degree in worship leadership. “I’ve been around worship my whole life,” she shares. “It was always the thing to...

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...

God’s direction often comes when we least expect it. For Joy Cromer, that moment came during one of the most ordinary of tasks encountered by every teenager, homework. She was 17 years old, sitting on her bed, working on one assignment or another, when out of the blue...

If you asked those closest to her, What is one word that best describes Kristey Simmons?, many would say confident. “But if you had asked that three years ago,” she admits, “it would have been something very different.” Confidence is a recent addition to Kristey’s...