“We intentionally chose to keep the class small,” said Tanner Guidry, IBC’s student and young adult pastor, of the Pace church’s selective initiative for students in ninth through 12th grades. “It’s designed to go deep into building personal relationships while learning more about God’s word and growing in relationship Him. We want to do life together.”

Half a century later, he feels called by God to revive the program he said helped shape his life.

It is reserved for men of the congregation and their male guests, but the meal and worship take place at the church, 8897 Byrom Campbell Road.