Mission America

Join our mission to make disciples and build families for the benefit of local communities across our nation.

We're on a mission to secure America's Christ-centered future...

...Through Education, Discipleship and Community

If it's true that "the glory of God is a man fully alive", then the greatest call of any ministry is to help people "come fully alive". What if we told you that the ills that plague our nation - from violence to the health epidemic to political turmoil and the drug epidemic -  were problems of discipleship? Jesus' great commandment to His followers was to make disciples. Why? Because He knew that healthy people build healthy families who build healthy communities.

It's not complicated. It's just costly.

We’re on a mission to secure America’s Christ-centered future through...

Educating and Discipling in Community

Educating and discipling wise, mature, and productive adults who live purposeful, fulfilling lives - building healthy marriages and families and bringing practical, Kingdom living to every local community they graduate to.

Training in Critical Thinking

Teaching the nation’s current and future leaders to discover God’s truth, discern wisely, and take godly action through our summer leadership camps and our critical thinking seminars, free online courses and continuing education, and homeschool curriculum.

Will you join our Mission America?

Since Excel College does not accept even one penny of state or federal taxpayer funding — even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans — your gift to Excel’s Mission America ensures that:

The College

Excel College can have generational impact on local communities around America by producing wise, mature and productive adults with a biblical worldview, marketplace experience and the maturity to succeed in life. Healthy people who build healthy families who build healthy communities. Excel College educates these young leaders with a biblical liberal arts curriculum, hands on experience in the marketplace, and life on life discipleship in the context of a thriving Christian community.

The Camps

Excel College can prepare teenagers during critical development years to discern cultural messages and stand on biblical truth through its summer leadership camps, critical thinking course and continuing education for high schoolers, equipping them to discover God’s truth, discern wisely, and take Godly action in their context.

The Content

Excel College can continue to produce dynamic, faith inspiring and marketplace relevant content and curriculum with world class speakers through podcasts, videos, and blogs free of charge for all Americans to consume.

The Marketplace

Excel College can continue to serve the marketplace by educating business leaders, ministry leaders, and non-profit leaders in the tools of critical thinking and discernment through its seminars, so they can faithfully steward their callings and empower the people they lead to do the same.

The Academy

Excel Academy can continue to serve kids and build families through cultivating learning experiences where children and youth grow in relationship with God, others, and the world around them. Programs include Arts and Activities, adventure, a homeschool co-op, mother's bible study, scouts, and more.

The Institute

Excel Institute can serve the broader community of Black Mountain through continuing education and development opportunities for adults such as: marriage and parenting classes, financial management, skill certificates, CPR and First Aid, and more.

The Community

Excel can incubate pioneers and leaders to plant campuses and communities in major cities across the country, multiplying impact by allowing us to plant these community transforming ecosystems in more regions while also allowing us to raise up more graduates who become wise, mature, and productive leaders of tomorrow.

Mission America

We’re on a mission to secure America’s flourishing, Christ-centered future through educating and discipling wise, mature, and productive adults, and teaching the nation’s current and future leaders to discover God’s Truth, Discern Wisely, and Take Godly Action.

Will you join us?

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Thank You to Our Generous Donors & Partners

THE MANTHEI FAMILY
MERCURY ONE
OPERATION BLESSING
THE BREWSTER FAMILY
THE
DIMITRIS
FAMILY
THE HOLLUB FAMILY
VALLEY HOPE CHURCH
THE REED FAMILY
THE MCMICKING FOUNDATION
THE NORLING FAMILY

September 2025 Enrollment Options Available

What Parents Are Saying

Testimonials

Our daughter came to Excel because it appealed to her creativity. At Excel, she has found that the context to learn and grow while living and working in a discipleship setting was just what she needed... During her time at Excel, she has flourished! She has gained confidence and poise and learned how to engage ideas in a humble way that keeps truth and Christ at the center while honoring the person or author across from her. Excel is training our daughter to think deeply, to love well, and to serve humbly. It has exceeded our expectations all around!

Heather

W.

C8 Parent

Our daughter... was drawn towards this idea of community and discipleship while earning a degree and made the decision to begin Excel immediately following the finish of her trade school. She is thriving. She is learning so much through critical thinking... [and] is also growing as a whole person. We now have another child who has been captured by this school concept and will join his sister in January at Excel. We are very excited for his journey to begin and expectant of all the Lord will do in both of them, and through both of them in the years to come.

Jen

M.

C8 Parent

My wife Missy and I always believed there was a better way for college, and Excel is it. The no debt, work while you [attend] school, Christian community immersion is exactly what we were looking for. Our son is on the autism spectrum and needs to be "encouraged". Excel is doing just that and giving him an opportunity he would never have at a "Christian University".

Alan

R.

C8 Parent

In just a few months, my wife and I have seen our daughter grow immensely in her relationship with Christ, become more responsible for herself and her future, work harder, and love more. We’re thrilled with how Excel is nurturing her in her young adulthood and with how she is seizing the opportunities God has opened for her.

Matthew

N.

C8 Parent

Our daughter has grown exponentially in her leadership skills, her communication skills, and in her personal spiritual growth because of Excel's passion and pursuit to mentor and disciple the students. Excel's unique educational model is a refreshing option to higher education because the goal truly is to help students build a life, not just a living. We have watched our daughter turn into a mature, considerate, honoring adult with compassion towards others, a servant's heart beyond her years, and leadership skills that most adults long to have.

Kristine

S.

C5 Parent

I love Excel's unique educational model because it prepares my son for real life. Learning, applying what he learns, time to work and make money, mentoring and accountability to live out a full life with purpose in Jesus.

April

H.

C8 Parent

In just a few months of my son Ben being at Excel College, I can see he has gained more confidence. He is even more engaged in conversation and in critical thought. He went to Excel for community and personal growth, and I know he is surrounded with solid mentorship and peers who intentionally pursue growth with him, and for him. From a parent's perspective, I can sense that he's exactly where he needs to be.

Ken

S.

C8 Parent
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