On God's Course
My experience at KCBC is one that I talk about often. It was life-changing and the fulfillment of words that God had spoken many years prior.
My name is Rachel Agnew, and I am a 2022 Kenneth Copeland Bible College graduate. I am a native of Madison, Mississippi, but I now call Fort Worth, Texas home. My journey to KCBC was definitely not a straight one, but God spoke. I listened.
When I was younger, a common question I was frequently asked was: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For years, I used to tell anyone who posed that question “I want to be a kindergarten teacher and a preacher.” The kindergarten teacher career path was long ago abandoned, but ministry was never far from my heart. I knew that God had a call on my life.
In 2012, I attended a church youth camp the summer before my senior year in high school. At the camp, I heard from God clearly: “You are to go to ministry school”. During my senior year, I was making plans to leave everything to go to ministry school. I was on my way – or so I thought. My dad asked me to attend a 4-year university before going to ministry school. I honored my father and in turn, God honored me.
During my four years of college, I experienced life-changing events that showed me it was the best decision that I could’ve made. That decision allowed me to cultivate a relationship with God so pure and intimate that I was forever changed. That decision allowed me to attend college and use the gift God placed inside of me to minister to other students. That decision allowed for me to circumvent acquiring student loan debt for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. That decision put me on His course, even though I thought that it was mine.
God’s course meant that I would graduate in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and earn a master’s in business administration a year later at the age of 22. His course meant turning down a job at a major accounting firm – after receiving an offer a year in advance – to work in my local church. His course meant not always knowing what to do in every situation but learning to rest in His peace. His course meant waiting until the right moment and the right time to go to ministry school. His timing proved amazingly accurate.
In 2019, I attended the Southwest Believers’ Convention for the first time. At Southwest, I heard testimonies about KCBC, and the seed was planted. Those testimonies caused a stirring that did not make sense to me at the moment because I was already enrolled in an online Bible school. I left Southwest and returned home to Mississippi. The stirring never stopped. It never left. We always kept VICTORY Channel on in our home and the promos about KCBC would regularly air. After hearing one of the promos, I heard God’s voice once again: “I said GO to ministry school.” A few days later, I was sitting on the top steps of our staircase and told my mom in a very quiet and unsure voice, “I think that I am supposed to go to KCBC.” She exuberantly replied: “YES!”
After God spoke, everything moved quickly. A house that we had been in for less than six months sold within the first 30 days. My mom and I made the move to Texas on March 1, 2020, I interviewed at Kenneth Copeland Ministries on March 3rd, and on March 23, I began to work for VICTORY Channel as the Broadcast Operations Administrative Assistant. The very next day, it was decided to shut everything down at the ministry due to COVID-19. God proved to be faithful. Before school began, He had already provided housing, a job, and stability. It was a demonstration of what happens when you remain in His plan.
I began KCBC in August 2020 and quickly learned it was nothing like any college, university, or Bible training that I had ever experienced. From the very first day, the presence of God rested on each class. During my undergraduate years, I was never excited to wake up for 8 a.m. lectures. However, at KCBC, I would often wake up, excited to dig deeper into the Word through anointed teaching. The hunger for the Word just increased more and more. I would often come home and tell anyone who would listen about what was discussed in class. I would open my notes and begin to recount every single thing that I could about that day’s teachings. Our guest speakers would come and fire us up. It would add to the fire that was already ablaze on the inside of us.
My experience at KCBC is one that I talk about often. It was life-changing and the fulfillment of words that God had spoken many years prior. I can now understand why it was so important to GO. God put me on the path to go to the best. It is an experience where you must GO to understand. The information and revelation that I received has changed everything about my life. I came to KCBC with an expectation to receive, but I never knew the depth of all that was received.
Look what God has done since I made that decision on the steps of my home in Mississippi to attend KCBC, forgoing an established job as an accountant and leaving behind much of what I knew. Not only am I the Office Manager for VICTORY CHANNEL, but also God is using me to pray for people in the U.S. and around the world on Morning Prayer. Because of God’s faithfulness, I often travel with FlashPoint as a representative of VICTORY Channel and Kenneth Copeland Ministries. I credit KCBC for catapulting my ministerial journey into areas of ministry I didn’t know I’d see and to places, I never thought I would go.
Because of KCBC, I am fulfilling my mission to “preach, teach, and demonstrate the love of God to everyone.” And, through God, there is so much more He would have me to do. That’s what KCBC did for me.