Our Story

For seven years, something was happening at Connection Pointe Christian Church in the Indianapolis area. Baptisms nearly tripled. Students were leading their classmates to Christ. Adults who had been coasting in their faith were waking up. The congregation was growing - not just in numbers, but in depth.

The Question That Started Everything

John S. Dickerson had been leading Connection Pointe through that journey. As a journalist, he had spent years researching revival - studying the Great Awakenings, tracing what sparked them, and identifying the practices that sustained them. As a pastor, he had been putting those findings into practice with real people, in a real church.

The results were undeniable. And the question became unavoidable: What if this could happen somewhere else?

Mark Caswell had joined Connection Pointe as Chief of Staff after two decades building organizations in aerospace and technology. He and John had been close friends for years. Mark had spent his career figuring out how to take something that works and scale it - how to build systems that grow and last.

When they started talking seriously about what it would take to bring this to churches across the country, the answer was clear. This wasn't a conference. It wasn't a curriculum to sell. It was a movement that needed a home.

The Revival Project was born out of one conviction: we've found something. Our heart is to give it away - but give it away the right way.

Give It Away. The Right Way.

Simply sending a box of materials to a church and hoping for the best was never going to move the needle. Churches need encouragement, training, and help adapting what works to their own culture and context. Individuals need a pathway that meets them where they are - whether they're skeptics exploring Christian practices for the first time or deep believers ready to go further.

The Revival Project was created to do exactly that.

It's not just a resource, it's a relationship. A proven, practical framework delivered with the guidance, training, and ongoing support that turns a spark into something that lasts.

Built on What Works

The Revival Project isn't a theory. It's the product of seven years of pastoral practice, serious theological research, and real-world results in a local church.

Connection Pointe invested over $5 million in developing and proving this approach before The Revival Project launched as a standalone organization. The model was tested before it was offered. That's the foundation - not an idea we hope will work, but something we've already watched God use.

The Vision

Sparks of revival are already happening across the country. What's missing isn't passion - it's a pathway. A proven, practical way for local churches to do what Connection Pointe has done: spark personal revival, raise up the next generation, and sustain it for decades.

That's what The Revival Project exists to provide. 1,000 churches. 1,000 cities. And a generation on fire for Christ.