Gracepoint Groups, A List

A list of current and past Gracepoint churches and Gracepoint groups by campus. Many thanks to @leavegracepoint on Reddit for putting it together. 

Churches and affiliated student groups from the Berkland Baptist Church era are mostly not listed (except for the UC Berkeley ones).

UC Berkeley
Current Groups

• A2F

• Klesis

• IGSM

• IUSM (formerly ISM)

• MakeNew

• make.well

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) College

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• Bay Area Mentors

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Give Love

• Cal MENtorship

• 5and2

• With A Vision (WAV)

• Open Door Mentorship

• Come One and Come Ball

• Visiting Scholar Ministry (VSM)

• Recreate Berkeley

• Alpha Koinonia Berkeley

• Acts2Campus (Acts2CN) Network

• Salesforce@UC Berkeley link (Salesforce might have approved the people involved as campus reps since they are employees, but they are using Gracepoint facilities, you draw your own conclusions)

Past Groups

• Koinonia (merged with A2F)

• Latino Christian Fellowship (LCF)

• Alethia

• Kairos

• International Student Fellowship (ISF)

• Crosstalk

• Third Space

• 4Corners

• ABSK (Asian Baptist Student Koinonia)

• BBC (Berkland Baptist Church)

• KBSK (Korean Baptist Student Koinonia)

• KBSU (Korean Baptist Student Union)

UC Davis (UCD)

• Gracepoint Davis

• Koinonia

• Aggie Lounge

• Aggie International Ministry (AIM)

• Thrive

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC Los Angeles (UCLA)

• A2F

• Klesis

• 4Corners

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• Gracepoint LA

UC Santa Cruz (UCSC)

• Klesis

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC San Diego (UCSD)

• UCSD A2F

• UCSD Klesis

• UCSD Cobalt

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) SD

• Gracepoint San Diego

• Axios SD

• IUSM SD

• IGSM SD

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC Irvine (UCI)

• International Student Group (ISG)

• Klesis Mentorship

• Axios UCI

• A2F Irvine

• makewell Irvine

• IGSM Irvine

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)

• A2F

• Klesis Isla Vista

• Gracepoint Santa Barbara

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC Riverside (UCR)

• Movement UCR

• A2F

• Klesis

• [men]tality @ riverside

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

UC Merced

• A2F

UC Santa Cruz (UCSC)

• Klesis

• Gracepoint Santa Cruz

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of Southern California (USC)

• Gracepoint LA

• A2F USC

• 4Corners USC

• IGSM USC

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• Trojan Tribe

• Build Mentorship

University of Minnesota (UMN)

• A2F Minnesota

• IGSM UMN

• The Foundry

• Acts2Fellowship Mentorship Program (AMP) UMN

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• Gracepoint Minneapolis

University of Pittsburgh (UPitt)

• Gracepoint Pittsburgh

• A2F UPitt

• MakeNew UPitt

• Come One Come Ball

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of Texas, Austin

• Koinonia Texas

• IUSM UT Austin

• IGSM UT Austin

• Kairos ATX

• make.well ATX

• 5and2 Austin (ATX)

• Advance Mentorship

• Third Space

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) Austin

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• interhigh

University of Washington (UDub)

• Gracepoint Seattle

• Klesis Seattle

• A2F UW

• IUSM

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Seattle University

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Princeton University

• Klesis Princeton

• Gracepoint New Jersey

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Northwestern University

• MakeNew

• Gracepoint Chicago

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of Chicago

• MakeNew

• Thrive Mentorship

• Gracepoint Chicago

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Azusa Pacific University (APU)

• Project Build

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

California Institute of Technology (CalTech)

• Gracepoint LA

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Boston University

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

• Klesis

• Gracepoint Pittsburgh

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

San Jose State University (SJSU)

• Klesis

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Santa Clara University (SCU)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)

• Kairos

• 4Corners

• Gracepoint DMV

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC)

• Klesis

• A2F

• Zoom and Bloom

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) North Carolina

• Gracepoint North Carolina

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Rutgers

• Klesis

• Gracepoint New Jersey

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

North Carolina State University (NCSU)

• Gracepoint North Carolina

• A2F

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Georgetown University

• Gracepoint DMV

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) DMV

• Raze College Brotherhood

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

George Mason University (GMU)

• Gracepoint DMV

• [make]new

• Project Spotlight

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) DMV

• Raze College Brotherhood

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

George Washington University (GW)

• Gracepoint DMV

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) DMV

• Raze College Brotherhood

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

American University

• Gracepoint DMV

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) DMV

• Raze College Brotherhood

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

University of Virginia (UVA)

• Gracepoint DMV

• UVA Mosaic

• Area Youth Ministry (AYM) DMV

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

San Francisco State University (SFSU)

• Koinonia

• Gator2Gator

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of San Francisco (USF)

• Klesis

• Koinonia (2007-2009)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

University of San Diego (USD)

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

San Diego State University (SDSU)

• Klesis

• Axios House

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

• Gracepoint San Diego

CSU Fullerton (CSUF)

• 4Corners

CSU Sacramento

• Gracepoint Davis

CSU Monterey Bay (CSUMB)

• Klesis

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Claremont Colleges

• Gracepoint Claremont

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Westmont College

• A2F

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Loyola Marymount University (LMU)

• make.well

Cal Poly Pomona (CPP)

• A2F

• Gracepoint Pomona

• Advanced Mentorship Program (AMP)

Orange Coast College (OCC)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• 4Corners

Foothill College

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

De Anza College

• Klesis Bay

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

Ohlone College

• Klesis Bay

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

College of Alameda (CoA)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

• Koinonia

Chabot College

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

CSU Long Beach / Long Beach City College (LBCC)

• 4Corners

Diablo Valley College (DVC)

• International Student Mentorship Program (ISMP)

HsinChu, Taiwan

• Koinonia

• Gracepoint HsinChu

Acts2Campus Network (A2CN) is also a Gracepoint thing.

Reflections

There's been a lot of activity on reddit and a "response video" from Ed Kang. It's too much content for me to follow closely but I appreciate everyone coming out with their stories of spiritual abuse (and other kinds of abuse) from Gracepoint. I know the courage it takes to speak out against a powerful system. Ed and other Gracepoint staff might scoff at this idea but from my perspective, Gracepoint is, and has been for a long time, a part of the Christian Industrial Complex. The CIC commodifies peoples lives for the purpose of perpetuating itself. All means are justified by the ends of "saving souls from hell."

I hear that Gracepoint is planting 27 new churches. Gracepoint, what if you stopped planting churches for a while? What if you sit still for a few years and let people rest? What if you stopped controlling people into moving to whatever the hell new city you decide to target. Consider it a year of jubilee if you need a biblical reason. Just stop. I wonder how many staff feel a huge weight lifted off your shoulders just to consider this a possibility.

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Gracepoint is white supremacist

This may be a shock to some of my readers but I firmly believe that Gracepoint is white supremacist. How can an organization that was started by a Korean America couple (Becky and Paul Kim) and is led by a Korean American couple (Ed and Kelly Kang) and has mostly Asian Americans as their congregants be white supremacists? The answer is complex.

Christianity in Korea was introduced in the context of European colonialism and imperialism. One cannot separate Christianity in Korea from that context. Korean immigrants brought this colonized version of Christianity to America when we immigrated here and got plugged back into American/Western Christianity that gave birth to Korean Christianity. I could say a lot more about this but I am not a historian so I'll let you use google.

Gracepoint is a part of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC is rooted in white supremacy as an organization. Again, I am not a historian but I encourage you to learn more about the SBC and it's origins. Many Christians supported the continued enslavement of African Americans and SBC is a major part of that shameful legacy.

During my many years at Gracepoint, I read countless books and listened to countless messages by other Christian leaders that the church promoted. Who were these other Christian leaders? White men. Cis het white men. (Except for Ravi Zacharias who turned out to be a sexual predator.) Bill Hybels, Chuck Colson, John Ortberg, CS Lewis, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Tim Keller, John Piper, Philip Yancey, J.P. Mooreland, etc. etc. etc.

How many Black Christians were promoted at Gracepoint? ZERO. Not one can I recall in my memory.

How many Indigenous Christians were promoted? Zero.

How many Hispanic or Latinx Christians were promoted? Zero.

I think you get the point.

This is probably going to be a very unpopular post. 

I came to this realization not that long ago but it's helped me uncover yet another layer in the multitude of ways that Gracepoint was harmful to me. My intention for this post is that it helps you think more critically about why Gracepoint promotes mostly white men. And if you did not even notice this fact until you read this post, I invite you to lean into that awareness.

Subreddit for Former Members of Gracepoint Church

A reader has created a subreddit to discuss Gracepoint. You can find it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GracepointChurch/

Thank you all for supporting this blog and getting the truth about Gracepoint out there. 

For those of you who are struggling to leave or feel trapped, you are not alone. Please reach out for help.