| OUR HISTORY
Fountain City Church was pioneered in August 2018 by Grant and Krissy Collins. After serving in pastoral ministry for 10+ years and in missions mobilization for two years, they sensed God resurrecting a call to church planting in Columbus, GA, combining their passion for relational discipleship and apostolic passion. Along with 20 other adults and 10 kids, they launched Fountain City Church in their home where they shared meals together, worshipped their guts out, studied the Scriptures, and prayed for the Kingdom of God to come to the Chattahoochee Valley. One pandemic + one church renovation + a denomination affiliation change later, Fountain City Church is still focused on raising up and multiplying families of missional disciples locally and globally.
| MANIFESTO
The Church isn’t limited to what happens in brick and mortar buildings on Sundays. The Church is the people of God won by the love and mercy of God, filled by the Spirit of God to accomplish the will of God in all the Earth. We are the Body and Bride of Christ, the Temple where God’s Spirit lives. We aren’t just weekend participants; we are a set apart people, justified by the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, constantly being sanctified by the Word and work of the Holy Spirit in us and in partnership with us. We are not just a set of programs or clever marketing strategies to get you in the doors. We are the limping, yet glorified beloved of God. We are content but never satisfied. We are a tested people, prisoners of hope. We are a people who suffer and struggle, tempted yet warring, ever trusting in the resurrection power of the Spirit at work in us. And with God’s help, we are becoming more than we yet are; we’re becoming like Jesus.
Our culture is desperate for genuine connection and community as the felt experience of what the Church is called to. Transformation doesn't happen in one hour services. We can experience the power of God in worship and sermons, but there is no substitute for cultivating a life of obedience to God and practicing the way of Jesus in community over time. Because of that, we fight for deep relationships. It sounds shiny, but it’s honestly the hardest work. Those realizations have led us to a convictional blueprint for Fountain City Church. We don’t live up to it yet, but…
We strive to become an apostolic household, a gathering of Acts 2:42 communities that come together weekly to pursue the Presence of God, to study the Scriptures and listen to the Spirit of God as He forms us into His image and sets us ablaze with His love and vision for the world around us. We exist to multiply families of missional disciples:
FAMILIES: groups of people bound together by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
MISSIONAL: putting the power of the Gospel to work to see the city & nations come under the authority of God’s Kingdom
DISCIPLES: people devoted to apprenticing under Jesus of Nazareth & living to be with him, become like him, and to do what he does
This is not just a conviction. It's our plan.
