About ten years ago a vision was born on how to build community with Southwestern University and its students. The vision was to ensure that students felt welcome in Georgetown by providing them a relaxed and welcoming environment that let them know they are loved.

So with that vision, in the fall of 2014, “Church Lunch” (or CHUNCH) as the students named it began at Crestview Baptist Church. The founding principles of “Church Lunch” were (and still are): Accept the students as they are; Love them unconditionally; Serve them well with a home-cooked meal.

The 2022-2023 school year is our ninth year of serving lunch every Monday. Over the past few years our relationships with students and the university have grown into a close community that now reaches well beyond lunch on Mondays.

Some of the ways we continue to build and strengthen community with Southwestern include a professional mentoring program, connection groups, large group worship and of course lunch on Monday. We welcome you and you are certainly invited into everything we are doing, so feel free to participate in as much or as little as you choose.