Why this place exists
Jackson Conference Center is not a venue that happens to be Christian. It was built by a ministry network so that churches would have somewhere to take their people, and that is still the whole point of it.
A place to encounter God
Most of what happens here happens in a room with the lights down and a group singing. That is the reason the auditorium has a real stage and a real sound system rather than a podium and a projector, and the reason the room is the biggest thing on the property.
We are an Assemblies of God ministry network and we make no secret of it. We also host churches from across the spectrum of Christian belief, and we are not interested in policing which one a group belongs to. Groups come to meet with God. We keep the building out of the way of that.
A place to grow as a team
A staff that has worked together for years will still learn something new about each other over three days somewhere else. That is most of what a retreat is for, and it is why the campus has more than one room to be in.
The deck outside the dining hall, the fireplace at the far end of it, the patios off the auditorium. The conversation that changes something usually happens in one of those, not in the session.
A place to fellowship
Eighty-four acres of somewhere to be together. A pond with a gazebo at the end of the dock, a pool in the summer, courts and a field and nine holes of disc golf across the property.
None of it is the reason a group books a retreat. All of it is the reason they remember one.
Eight weeks every summer
For roughly eight weeks a year this campus is not a rental at all. It belongs to the students of the Tennessee Ministry Network, and thousands of them come through it across a season of youth and kids camps.
That is worth knowing if you are considering bringing a group here. This is not a facility we maintain for other people to use. It is a campus we run our own ministry on, and we hand it to your group in the state we would want it in for ours.
Owned by a ministry network
Jackson Conference Center is owned and operated by the Tennessee Ministry Network. Both are nonprofits. What a group pays to be here goes back into the campus and into the ministry that runs it.
It also means nobody here is trying to turn the property into something other than what it is. The campus is not being positioned for sale or repositioned for a different market. It exists to host groups like yours, and it will still be doing that in twenty years.
A place for gatherings that matter most
Churches keep coming back because something happened here that would not have happened at home. That is the only measure of this place that matters to us, and it is the standard the campus is held to as it grows.
There is more coming. A new auditorium, better lodging, and the rest of what an active campus needs. It gets built the same way everything here got built, which is slowly and for the same reason.
Bring your group
If this sounds like the kind of place you want to take your people, tell us what you are planning.