Chris and Terri Musgrove have worked for the past 18 years to bring something a little extra to the schools in South Georgia and North Florida: vision, purpose, and destiny.
The Musgroves, who formerly worked as pastors, decided to craft a program that highlights how drugs, alcohol, premarital sex, gangs, violence, failing grades, and bullying are just symptoms of a bigger problem.
By day, they throw an event at a local school to highlight how vision, purpose, and density can help create a plan to fix that problem. By night, students further interested gather at the same school after hours to talk about how those three crucial tiers come from God.
“It is not a church service,” Chris Musgrove said. “I like to refer to it as an evangelistic outreach with upbeat talk and music. The day program is vision and purpose and making the right choices, but then we have all the visuals and testimonials at the night event, and I’ll tell my story and say, ’This is what happened to me, and this is how I got a vision for my life.’”
Musgrove was once told by his ninth-grade English teacher that he was a good communicator, but he wasn’t interested in taking that advice at that point in his life.
“I was a class clown, and I just shut her down,” Musgrove said.
Musgrove realized later, after failing to complete college, that he needed a plan. He recalled what his teacher said to him all those years ago and realized that he didn’t want other young minds following his same path.
Musgrove, along with his wife and children, discovered how he wanted to spread his message to others.
Musgrove and his team work hard to put on an event that conveys their message with a great show that the students will enjoy and want to watch. One of his favorite parts of the job is the comments he receives afterwards, from both students and faculty alike.
“I had a principal tell me that these kids will never see a program like this their entire lives, like what we bring to the school,” Musgrove said. “And that means a lot to me, that this ignites them to see something bigger than they are.”
FutureNow’s coverage is about a 90-square-mile radius around the Valdosta area. Musgrove said that their next steps for FutureNow would be to have a larger coverage area and to duplicate what they are doing so they can reach out to more schools.
“We want to be a resource that they can call,” Musgrove said. “We are looking to duplicate what we do in our area in other areas of the US. We are currently purchasing property and offices with plans to build a training facility where we can begin to train other teams.”
FutureNow is the one-stop shop for bringing state-of-the-art entertainment to local schools in South Georgia. Combined with weaving in their message of vision, purpose, and destiny, FutureNow could be the next great assembly to visit your local school and beyond.
