Articles for tag: Grayson Kentucky

March 7, 2026

Wes Woodell

Kentucky Christian University Mission Minded Leadership Conference

Kentucky Christian University Mission Minded Leadership Conference

Kentucky Christian University’s Mission Minded Leadership Conference is a one-day, kingdom-centered event designed to inspire, equip, and challenge students, pastors, alumni, and professionals to lead with faith and purpose. Hosted by KCU’s School of Business and Leadership, the 2026 conference features speakers including Rennie Curran, Julie Nee Ward, and Amy P. Kelly and focuses on leadership, resilience, communication, and mission-driven impact.

October 1, 2019

Rick Chromey

When Life Gives You Leamons

By Rick Chromey It was a blustery, cold Thursday in January 2005. My meeting with Bill Leamon—the maintenance manager for Kentucky Christian University—was scheduled for 3 p.m. I initiated the meeting to announce my resignation from the youth worker team for Bill’s mission trip to Mexico. My daughter had roped me into going. Our church youth group annually traveled to Ciudad Acuna to serve impoverished families. The trip of 1,400 miles was a grueling, nonstop, 24-hour, one-way drive from Grayson, Kentucky. My daughter’s enthusiasm had proven contagious. I said yes. But I never wanted to go. Mission work, I believed,

Allcorn Named President of Kentucky Christian University

Dr. Terry Allcorn has been named the sixth president in the 100-year history of Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Ky. The 1985 KCU graduate will replace outgoing president Dr. Jeffrey Metcalf, who announced last September that he intended to serve only until Aug. 26 of this year. Metcalf has served as president and CEO of KCU for 10 years. “I am thrilled and privileged to be the next president of Kentucky Christian University and follow in the footsteps of men I admire greatly and to work with a team that is so experienced and strong as this one,” Allcorn shared

Christian Standard Interview with Francis Nash

On August 12, Sugar Grove Christian Church, a country church between Owingsville and Mount Sterling, Kentucky, honored Francis Nash, 70, of Grayson, for 50 years of service as minister (see photo of Francis and Pam Nash, above). Nash started at Sugar Grove in 1968 while still a student at Kentucky Christian College (now Kentucky Christian University). He has since earned three postgraduate degrees and authored three regional history books. Simultaneously, he served 50 years in broadcasting, retiring in 2016. Nash is the son of the late Donald Nash, a longtime professor of Greek and New Testament at KCU. He married

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