Annie Armstrong Easter Offering 2026 – Week of Prayer Day 1
For Jordan and Jessamy Adams, the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the perfect place to plant a church. “In our first year, we baptized 81 people,” Jordan says, “and now, those students are leading more and more of their friends to Christ. The gospel is spreading like wildfire on this campus, and when all these young people graduate, we’ll be able to send them out as missionaries.”
HIGHER EDUCATION
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
“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 auditoriums overflow and students get baptized—this has been way more than we ever imagined.” -Jordan Adams
“When we came in 2023, I knew God was going to work,” he says. “But I never imagined auditoriums overflowing, all these people getting baptized—this is more than anything we ever could’ve dreamed up.”
Jordan and his wife, Jessamy, are church planting missionaries in West Lafayette, Indiana, the home of Purdue University. “There are 41,000 students here,” Jessamy says, “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 says. “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.”
NAMB, Lafayette, IN AAEO
Pray for…
- Thousands of students to meet Jesus at Purdue.
- God to send mature adults to the Adams’ church plant who can disciple new believers.
- God to equip and send graduating students to other communities where they can help plant more new churches.