DEEPEN is not a club that offers a motto. DEEPEN is a gathering of students, all growing, all searching for more than our world has offered them.

They face unrelenting questions about their identity, belonging and purpose. DEEPEN aims to come along side students and answer these questions with Biblical teaching.

Identity

Noise bombards from all directions, students need the confidence knowing what God declares over them and about them is true. Students need to sink their teeth into the truths they are created in God’s image and loved for who they are and not what they can do.

Belonging

“No one belongs more than you.” Community is essential in following Jesus. DEEPEN connects students in small and large groups so they may be encouraged and challenged in their faith.

Our Purpose

Students are uniquely wired and uniquely placed in their world. We pray and teach so students know God’s story and see themselves as a part of what God is doing in the world. Students are not just rescued from something, but they are rescued for something bigger than themselves.

Psalm 145:4 shouts our purpose! Students knowing their identity in Christ, with others, are able to declare what God has done to other students who are desperate to know the truth.

“One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.”

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About Forrest Coulter and family

Forrest and Jenney and their family, originally from Texas, have called St. Johns County home since 2014.

Forrest has worked with middle school and high school students for 35 years. He received his bachelors from the University of Texas in Austin and master’s from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has worked on church staff as a student pastor in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Presently, he teaches at Tocoi Creek High School. He has coached baseball, soccer and softball teams both for rec and schools in St. Johns County.

Jenney, the creative half, teaches 5th grade at Palm Valley Academy, loves missions and investing in the lives of young ladies. A graduate of Eastern New Mexico University, she leads the Fellowship of Christian Athlete group on the PVA campus and pours her heart into her classroom kids daily.

Kaden graduated Nease High School in 2018, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in in 2022 and serves as officer in the United States Army. Luke, Nease class of 2021, attends University of South Florida and loves working on cars. He has launched his own mobile auto repair service called SENT. Kinsey, Nease class of 2023, attends Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL. Her heart is missions. Jack, Nease class of 2025, competes on the weightlifting team and loves watching the Cowboys and Longhorns.

The Coulter family moved to the area to help plant SaltRock Church. It met in Bartram Trail High School for 9 months and continued meeting in homes for a couple of years.

Forrest and Jenney’s heart and passion is to see students begin a relationship with Jesus Christ and deepen their relationship every day!

“Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts who are to come.”
Psalm 71:18

Basic Beliefs

These basic doctrines of faith represent what we believe to be core elements of biblical teaching.

God

We believe in one God eternally existing as one essence and three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of whom is fully God, yet there is one God.

Revelation

God has made Himself known to the world in Jesus Christ, the Scriptures, and creation.

Creation and Providence

We believe that God created the world from nothing and governs all things at all times in all places.

Humanity

We believe that all humanity is created in the image of God and possesses intrinsic dignity and worth.

Sin

We believe that sin has fractured all things, leaving the world in desperate need of salvation.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

The Church

We believe that the Church is the body of Christ sent into the world to shine forth the glory of God.

Resurrection and Consummation of the Kingdom of God

We believe that Jesus Christ is returning to the world in the future to judge the living and the dead.

Board of Directors

10 members serve on our Board of Directors. Names are available upon request.