Mission America

Join our mission to make disciples and build families for the benefit of local communities across our nation.

Adventure Into Truth

Embark on a transformative journey in the Blue Ridge Mountains where you'll build lasting friendships in the context of community, embark on thrilling adventures like camping, rock climbing, and white water rafting, and receive expert training and certifications in categories from CPR to Wilderness First Aid. Each aspect of the camp is woven together to help you learn to discover truth, discern wisely and take Godly action in the context of real life situations.

Discover

Discover truth, goodness and beauty as you build lifelong friendships with like-minded believers and embark on exciting adventures in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Discern

Discern how to sift through the noise of the world and to act wisely in the midst of it through team building activities, challenging adventures, and training in critical thinking.

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Do

As you engage in the worlds of nature and culture, we'll help you integrate the lessons you've learned into a comprehensive strategy for wise, Godly action.

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We're on a mission to secure America's Christ-centered future...

...Through Education, Discipleship and Community

If it's true that "the glory of God is a man fully alive", then the greatest call of any ministry is to help people "come fully alive". What if we told you that the ills that plague our nation - from violence to the health epidemic to political turmoil and the drug epidemic -  were problems of discipleship? Jesus' great commandment to His followers was to make disciples. Why? Because He knew that healthy people build healthy families who build healthy communities.

It's not complicated. It's just costly.

We’re on a mission to secure America’s Christ-centered future through...

Educating and Discipling in Community

Educating and discipling wise, mature, and productive adults who live purposeful, fulfilling lives - building healthy marriages and families and bringing practical, Kingdom living to every local community they graduate to.

Training in Critical Thinking

Teaching the nation’s current and future leaders to discover God’s truth, discern wisely, and take godly action through our summer leadership camps and our critical thinking seminars, free online courses and continuing education, and homeschool curriculum.

Grow in Community

With a maximum of 20 campers per session, you will find the camp to be a fun and inviting atmosphere conducive to building lifelong friendships. You’ll be surrounded by leaders and peers pursuing God and His Wisdom for their lives. After twelve days, you’ll be equipped to ask great questions, seek wisdom, and become a servant leader who gives your gifts to the world around you.

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Since Excel College does not accept even one penny of state or federal taxpayer funding — even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans — your gift to Excel’s Mission America ensures that:

The Community

Excel can incubate pioneers and leaders to plant campuses/communities in major cities across the country, multiplying impact by allowing us to plant these community transforming ecosystems in more regions while also allowing us to raise up more graduates who become wise, mature, and productive leaders of tomorrow.

The Marketplace

Excel can continue to serve the marketplace by educating business leaders, ministry leaders, and non-profit leaders in the tools of critical thinking and discernment through its seminars, so they can faithfully steward their callings and empower the people they lead to do the same.

The Academy

Excel Academy can continue to serve kids and build families through cultivating learning experiences where children and youth grow in relationship with God, others, and the world around them. Programs include Arts and Activities, a homeschool co-op, mother's bible study, Trail Life, and more.

The Camps

Excel's Summer Leadership Camps can prepare teenagers during critical development years to discern cultural messages and stand on biblical truth through its summer leadership camps, critical thinking course and continuing education for high schoolers, equipping them to discover God’s truth, discern wisely, and take Godly action in their context.

The College

Excel College can have generational impact on local communities around America by producing wise, mature and productive adults with a biblical worldview, marketplace experience and the maturity to succeed in life. Healthy people who build healthy families who build healthy communities. Excel College educates these young leaders with a biblical liberal arts curriculum, hands on experience in the marketplace, and life on life discipleship in the context of a thriving Christian community.

The Content

Excel can continue to produce dynamic, faith inspiring and marketplace relevant content with world class speakers through podcasts, videos, and blogs free of charge for all Americans to consume.

The Institute

Excel Institute can serve the broader community of Black Mountain through continuing education and development opportunities for adults such as: parenting classes, financial management, CPR and First Aid, and more.