Community

While the Kanakuk Institute’s campus offers top-notch facilities, true community does not depend upon buildings or basketball courts but on people and relationships. The first year out of college is an extremely transitional time regarding community. Typical college living provides everything right at your fingertips–opportunities for great community, accountability, and discipleship can all be found with minimal effort. However once you leave college, everything changes. You can still have the same caliber of community and ministry as before; however, it can require more effort to pursue. To help our students make the transition out of college and to help them understand what Biblical community living should look like, we created several different avenues for students to exercise accountability, integrity, intentionality, service, hard work, and evangelism. While some of these are weekly occurances, others only happen a couple times during the year. But regardless of frequency, students of the Kanakuk Institute must decide what role Biblical community is going to play in their lives, and students must be individually proactive in pursuing that community….not waiting on a staff member or ministry leader to make it happen for them.

At the Kanakuk Institute, we believe community is bigger than just obtaining a close social circle. True Biblical community has two distinct focuses. First, we should surrounded ourselves with people passionate for the Lord, who will genuinely love us, constantly encourage us, faithfully call out and bind up our weaknesses, and unceasingly motivate us to become ever more like Christ. However if our community focus remains self-focused, then it becomes impotent in making a difference for the Kingdom of Christ. Therefore Biblical community should also have a drive to individually and collectively take Christ to the world around us as we become more like Him. For this reason, our students are involved with families in the Branson area and serve the hurting and needy.

Through all of this, we desire our students to understand their place in the community of the Believers, the community of the Kanakuk Institute, and the community of Branson and the surrounding areas. Use the side navigation to learn more…