With this in mind, the Morrison Heights College Ministry Residency exists to accomplish two purposes:
• To develop future leaders for a lifetime of service in the kingdom of God.
• To release leaders in a missional effort to engage spiritually distant portions of campuses in the Jackson metro.

We ask that you prayerfully consider investing in this kingdom effort and partnering with us to reach the campus and the nations.

Hey, my name is Jake Cotten from Baton Rouge, LA. I graduated from Mississippi College in December of 2023. I like being outside, working out and learning new things.

This year Morrison Heights has blessed me with the opportunity to take the next step of obedience in my life. In 2021 I began to wrestle with the thought of vocational ministry. I was anxious and scared to voice that calling at the time. But God made a way for me to confirm my calling through the Morrison Heights College residency. I look forward to the Kingdom impact that the college ministry will have on college campuses across the Jackson area next school year. I pray that God will move in students’ lives across the Jackson area.

This is the first step of a lifelong commitment to obedience to the Kingdom of God in my life. Everything I do, I hope to do it for God’s glory.

Hey!
Before moving to Clinton for school at Mississippi College, I grew up in Wilsonville, AL. I graduated from MC in May of 2023 with a Bachelors of Science in Interpersonal and Public Communications. I love road trips, music, trying new restaurants, board game/movie nights (specifically The Bean Game), picnicking and any type of outdoor activity with good company!

My life before Christ was filled with insecurity and anger. God later revealed to me that the sin of my anger and bitterness towards others was the very thing in my own heart that separated me from God. As I now live in relationship with God, he has redefined security through the eyes of my Savior who has bought me with a price. Through His love, he has shown me the condition of my heart in anger and continues to fill me with His own kind and gentle Spirit.

God has used Morrison Heights in a significant way to grow deeper roots of love for Him, his people and those he continues to draw to himself. In the college ministry I was faithfully discipled for the first time. Leaders and peers invited me to labor alongside them as they cast the vision for what God was doing on University campuses. Through the faithful acts of college students to boldly live out their faith in pockets of lostness, I have gotten to see much fruit for God’s kingdom! Serving in this space, with these people, I am now convinced that God uniquely uses this time in college students' lives to create ripple effects of gospel proclamation to the ends of the earth!

This year, I believe the Lord has called me to serve on staff in Morrison Heights College Ministry by discipling college women and leading momentum for gospel advancement on MC’s campus. My prayer is that God would use our obedience to faithfully encourage and fan the embers of faith in the lives of these students to deepen their desire to worship him, and for them to seek for those around them to share in worship of their creator. I trust that as the Lord grows within these students a deeper zeal for Himself that He will use their lives to draw close those who have never had the privilege to hear Jesus’ name.

Hey everyone! My name is Luke Horst. I’m from Birmingham, AL, and I first came to Clinton in the fall of 2019 to attend Mississippi College. I graduated from MC in 2023 with a degree in Accounting, then stayed an extra year and graduated in 2024 with an MBA. I love sports, puns, playing games, and spending time with my family.
Being part of the Morrison Heights college ministry was an essential part of my life during my time at MC. I grew up in a Christian home with godly parents and came to know Christ when I was young, and had grown and matured in my faith up until college. However, I had attended the same church my whole life, and although I knew I needed to find a church family when I got to MC, I wasn’t sure where or how to do that.
After visiting Morrison Heights as a freshman, I quickly got connected to a discipleship group and missional community. Being involved in these focused, committed discipleship settings encouraged and challenged me to continue growing in my relationship with Christ. Throughout my time in the college ministry, I learned how to be a disciple of Jesus and make disciples of Jesus.
Now, I am blessed to be on staff with the Morrison Heights college ministry, encouraging and challenging students to be wholehearted followers of Jesus. I am also excited to be gaining a year of practical ministry experience as my wife and I explore a potential future in overseas or domestic missions. My desire is that God would use the college ministry to bring students closer to Him and get them excited about doing the work of His Kingdom here on earth, just as He did for me.

Hey y’all! I’m Isabella Segalla, and I graduate from Mississippi College in May of 2024.

As a military kid who has moved every couple years, my whole life has been a series of learning to trust God’s leading, and letting him work through the locations and seasons he places me in. I came to know him as just a child, but over the years, he has drawn me ever nearer, teaching me to lay down my desires for control or comfort, and teaching me to take up the cross of joyous, humble submission.

I believe that when God led me to MC in 2022 to finish out my undergraduate education, he was leading me not primarily to the school, but to Morrison Heights—my church. Here, I have been discipled and given opportunities to disciple others. I have gotten to go on mission and have gained a deeper vision of what it means to give my life for the cause of Christ.

As I look ahead to graduation, I believe the Lord is not done using me at Morrison Heights, nor using Morrison Heights in my own spiritual growth. I have been given a wonderful opportunity to continue investing my church’s amazing college ministry as a college resident.

My prayer is that through this journey as a college resident, the Lord will work in me to grow me into a more faithful disciple and disciplemaker, and that Jackson college students who have not yet been engaged with the life-changing power of the gospel will be. I am beyond excited to make God’s name great here among Jackson students and among the nations.

Hey guys!
My name is Spencer Winans, and I’m from St. Martin, MS. I graduated from Mississippi College in May 2025. Some things I enjoy outside of the church are sports, graphic design, and car rides with the windows down and music loud.

Before I met Jesus, I felt a hole in my heart despite all of the success that I had in life. In fact, I had so much good around me that I felt guilty for having this empty feeling. Then, in the fall of 2023, the people around me here at Morrison Heights helped me recognize my need for Jesus and His desire to have a relationship with me.

Once I began my relationship with Christ, Morrison Heights aided me in learning about discipleship and evangelism. Through discipleship groups, missional community, and missions, the Lord has given me an urgent desire to make Him known among the nations.

I believe the Lord is calling me to vocational college ministry and one of the many areas that still need Jesus here in the US is right here in Jackson. It is so exciting to be part of a missionally minded and extremely supportive church here at Morrison Heights. It is my prayer that the Lord will make each of the campuses that we try to reach receptive to the Good News of Jesus Christ and will grow leaders on each campus that recognize the urgency of the Great Commission.