A lot can happen in one year.
In the fall of 2024, Justin Walker, pastor of Salt and Light Church in La Grange, Kentucky, set out with an audacious goal: to successfully launch a tuition-free, church-sponsored school.
“We launched the school with nothing,” Walker told CBN News, reflecting on the year since Salt and Light Academy first opened its doors. “We had no money, we had no teachers, we had nothing.”
“But,” he continued, “the Lord provided.”
God certainly has provided, but not without a series of steps into the dark — steps into an uncertain future that required open hands and faithful surrender. Through a series of confirmations, the pastor said, the Lord has made it clear He has a plan for the town just outside Louisville.
In a year’s time, the congregation at Salt and Light has made great strides, reimagining an old horse auction house — a sprawling piece of real estate complete with a mammoth building overlooking a pond and rolling fields — into a sanctuary, offices, and a series of classrooms.
The school launched with kindergarten through sixth grade. This year, enrollment has doubled, and the church has added seventh and eighth grades. As each grade has been added, Walker said, it has almost simultaneously been filled — with more on waiting lists.
While the physical growth is impressive, it’s the spiritual growth — the eternal fruit of the congregation’s labor — that is most significant.
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