March 1-8 is the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and Week of Prayer for North American Missions. The national goal is $80 million to support church planting and compassion ministries. One of the featured stories in the prayer guide is a couple serving at Purdue University in West LaFayette, Indiana.
Jordan Adams talking with students.
“I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before.”
That’s what Jordan Adams said the morning after a three-hour, standing-room-only worship service where his church plant baptized 38 college students. “Seeing church auditoriums overflow and students get baptized—this has been way more than we ever imagined,” he said.
“When we came in 2023, I knew God was going to work,” the young planter said. “But I never imagined auditoriums overflowing, all these people getting baptized—this is more than anything we ever could’ve dreamed up.”
Jordan Adams preaching
Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, are church planting missionaries in West Lafayette, Ind., the home of Purdue University. “There are 41,000 students here,” Jessamy said, “and most of them are at that stage of life where they’re looking for something to live for. That makes this a perfect place to plant a church.”
Now, students can leave Purdue with something more valuable than a college degree. “We have students meeting Christ, getting discipled, then graduating saying, ‘Where’s the next church plant? I want to move there,’” Jordan said. “We’re sending them out as ambassadors for Christ. Now, I’m certain God’s going to change our world, and he’s going to do it through college students.”
Meet Jordan and some of the students they’re reaching at Purdue University in the video at AnnieArmstrong.com.