If you’re a recent high school graduate considering a gap year, or someone looking to take a break from college to deepen your relationship with Christ, Impact 360 might be an option for you! Impact 360 offers deep philosophical and theological classes, focusing on strong evidence for building your faith, practical approaches to missions and evangelism, what the process of sanctification looks like, and guiding Christians through future questions about vocation, calling, and relationships. Impact 360 is intentional in almost everything on campus, from the rooms and housing to the layout of the classrooms and the other academic buildings.
One of Impact 360’s main goals is to place students in an environment for them to grow and flourish. Every Thursday we have a class called Academy, where we can ask discussion questions and work through any topic. Community is also a big part of life at Impact 360, as students explore what Biblical friendships and relationships look like. Each morning, we as students dedicate an hour to give students time to come together in prayer, meditation, scripture reading, and worship. The students lead this, not just to fulfill a class requirement, but instead, to see how we can glorify together. I guarantee that anyone who truly desires to know the Lord more deeply, be transformed by him, and live a life with a heart of leadership and service would find Impact 360 Fellows life-changing.
Before I entered Impact 360 I wanted to become more like Christ, but I didn’t know where to start. I was at a point in my life where I was deeply struggling with sin and had a lot of bad habits. I remember one of the first weeks of Impact, we as students had Jonathan Morrow come and speak to us about the negative effects our phone has on us—sharing how our phones are made to lure us in and keep our attention. This would only be the beginning of many more thought-provoking lessons that would change my life. Impact 360 teaches us specific topics in classes because of the spiritual growth and formation they foster in us as students. Through learning about other world views, we were able to understand the grounds for mine more deeply. It was through having academy questions that I was able to learn how to navigate other people’s opinions and learn how to learn.
Even while I only have 2 months left of the program, I am still learning and growing so much in my relationship with the Lord. Sometimes, I question who I would have been without coming to Impact 360 Fellows. I am thankful for all the knowledge I have learned and can carry into the rest of my life, whether in church, Bible Studies, Leadership, Missions, or my family.
For his will not mine,
Logan Thetford
Class XIX