Josh Owen and Seth Barnes were talking about the schools they attended growing up. The lectures were boring. Sitting at a desk all day was boring. They realized they shared a dream: Create a school where learning was driven by passion, where class was fun, where lessons were learned by doing things instead of listening to someone talk. They thought about the crisis in higher education – students going into debt and losing their faith.

Seth created training organizations before that changed the life trajectory of the young people who went through them. Why not create a school that would address the need for an alternative to higher education that would be completely different – and a full level better than the one in existence? The idea for Global U Christian Gap Year for young aspiring faith-driven entrepreneurs was born.