ABOUT THE FALLS CHURCH FELLOWS
The Falls Church Fellows Program equips emerging leaders to understand God’s design for work and to step confidently into their callings through a combination of workplace experience, intentional discipleship, and life-shaping community.
OUR HISTORY
The Founding of the First Fellows Program
Transforming Lives since 1994
In 1993, The Falls Church Anglican’s Rev. Dr. John Yates (retired,) proposed a training program for youth pastors. He shared his idea with his good friend Doug Holladay, who worked on Wall Street. Doug challenged John – “You’re not thinking BIG enough!” Doug’s argument was that the church ought to be training young pastors, yes — but the church should mainly be training young adults to lead in their professions – in business, finance, government, education, medicine, the arts — wherever God called them. After much prayer, and God’s refinement, The Falls Church Fellows Program accepted its first class in 1994. From that very first class, fellows have been equipped and emboldened each year, to live out their Christian faith as they pursue God’s call on their lives.
As TFCA’s Fellows Program alumni began scattering across the country and around the world, word of the program spread, and the Fellows Program Director began fielding inquiries from pastors about how they might start a program in their church. To meet this need, TFCA launched The Fellows Initiative. Today, TFI has helped start 36 fellows programs in churches across the country – all of them modeled after the founding Fellows at The Falls Church Anglican.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Ferguson introduces the Fellows Program
OUR MISSION & VISION
Our Vision
Our vision is to see a generation of Christian leaders who faithfully steward their vocations, serve the common good, and build institutions of lasting value, bringing the lordship of Christ to bear on every sphere of life for the flourishing of people, the renewal of culture, and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom.
Our Mission
The mission of The Falls Church Fellows is to form young men and women to live under the lordship of Christ in every sphere of life, recognizing that faith and work are not separate callings but part of one integrated life of Christian vocation. We equip Fellows to cultivate faithful habits of discipleship, apply biblical truth to their work and vocations, and steward the gifts, institutions, and responsibilities entrusted to them for the glory of God. Through this formation, Fellows learn to serve their neighbors, cultivate human flourishing, and advance Christ’s kingdom in the places where God has called them to work and live.