About Common Ground Ministry

To make Christian disciples of each succeeding generation, we will use a systematic approach to present the good news of new life in Christ Jesus to youth in order to make disciples and to grow them to maturity so they may share with others.

COMMON GROUND MINISTRY began in 1985 after 4 suicides at Ft. Vancouver High School in one month. A local youth pastor and Chaplain, Mike Miller, was involved in counseling those families through the tragedy. He began a school assembly program, Dare to Live, to counter this growing threat to our youth. 

Subsequently Mike presented his school assembly in all 50 states to roughly 3 million students. Because the secular schools prevented him from giving the students the hope to be found in Jesus Christ, he began an after-school all-school assembly program called The Fight of your Life, in which he could present this hope and give an altar call.