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==2000's==
===Revolution===
In 2000, [https://www.facebook.comdougengle|Doug Engle] graduated from [[Emmaus Bible College]] with a B.S. in Biblical Studies where had studied from 1995, and was raised at Grace & Truth. He moved back to Abilene, and started a mobile car wash business, followed by seasons in tree trimming, etc. He lived in Abilene from 2000-2003, before relocating to Hutchinson 2004-2016, followed by a move to Manhattan 2016-2020+. He started meeting with an old friend, and new believer, a peer named Kevin Haight, who was in fellowship with Emmanuel Church in Abilene, with permission of the elders at Grace & Truth on Monday evenings in late 2000.
Others followed from various area churches from Salina, Canton and Abilene, until the fellowship group numbered more than thirty young people on Monday nights for the four purposes of Acts 2:42 as a lay supplement for equipping them in their local churches. The group served over eighty young people over the course of its three years, with various itinerant Bible teachers from assemblies and other types of churches. It met at the Chapel for the first year or two, before relocating into Abilene where it met thru the end of 2003 at the Abilene Brethren in Christ Church, then a local park, then finally in the home of Doug Engle at the corner of 7th & Cedar.