Friday, February 10, 2012

Community church’s college outreach focuses on growth through small groups

With café-style tables, a coffee bar and colorful lighting, the loft of Mount Pleasant Community Church becomes populated every Tuesday night with college students. They come together for UNite, a program of MPCC’s ULife outreach, and meet in the church for worship and small-group Bible study at 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Shepherd resident and small-group leader MacKenzie Sheahan said the ULife program started about four years ago when she and her husband, Director of College Ministry Mitch Sheahan, began hosting a Bible study for a group of college students at their house. “Eventually we grew enough to start having weekly UNite meetings here in the church,” MacKenzie said. The attendance at each week’s UNite is now around 60 students, coming from both Central Michigan University and Mid Michigan Community College.

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