A Church for the Campus

God has brought a handful of people together with a common vision. We come from different backgrounds, have different stories, with a wide range of gifts, personalities and interests. In 2008, a team was sent from the University of Michigan to Columbus to plant a campus church at Ohio State (because God has a sense of humor).  The dream was to see God raise up a community of students that would fall in love with the Gospel and catch a vision to impact their the campus with the love of Christ. God has exceeded any expectations of what might happen.

Over the years, what began as a campus church plant at OSU expanded into the city of Columbus. Small groups were formed for those who were recent graduates & working professionals to meet together throughout the week.  As the small group community grew, the need for a city congregation became apparent. Through the incredible generosity of Neil Avenue Baptist Church, God graciously provided our church with a building where we could have our city congregation services! We began having services at our new building in 2016.

Through the pandemic and other changes in our church community, the leadership of H2O made the decision to close our city congregation and re-focus our mission and vision on campus in the summer of 2022. We are so incredibly grateful to God for his work in growing H2O into the city of Columbus and, though we are sad to see that chapter come to a close, we are excited for what God is going to do as we continue our work on campus at Ohio State. You can find more information about becoming a part of our church community here!

About the name H2O

In the Gospel of John we hear a story about a very unlikely character. She was a Samaritan woman, with a broken life. No religious credentials to her name, no respect and honor from society, but thirsty for real answers. At a well, in the midst of her everyday life, she encounters Jesus Christ. She is looking for water, but Jesus offers something infinitely deeper. Infinitely more. “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life”

Throughout Scripture we see a pattern of men and women thirsting for something deeper and more satisfying than what this world has to offer.  Through the Bible we find the story of God revealing himself as the source of Living Water, the only one who can truly quench the heart and soul.

Our dream at H2O is to be an oasis in the midst of Ohio State — that people would get a taste of the One that satisfies.

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