2000-2001
Visible School was created in the spring of 2000, when Ken Steorts, a founding member of the Christian rock band Skillet (band), left the band to travel to Coventry, England to view a Christian music college resembling the idea of Visible School for research. After visiting the Nexus Academy of Music website, he began Visible Community School of Music and Worship Arts as a ministry of Grace Covenant Church, also located in Memphis, Tennessee. The 2000-2001 school year began with twenty-one students and four full-time faculty.
In August 2001, more than forty students arrived after a summer of marketing the school at Christian music festivals and events. The school leased fifteen units at a local apartment complex and began to seek official recognition apart from Grace Covenant Church, which changed its name to Lifelink Church website. The faculty increased to eight teachers to handle the larger student body.
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