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Please consult this list of student organizations with revoked registration as of Spring 2025. Some organizations continue to operate after their registration has been revoked despite the action taken by the university. We encourage you to review an organization’s status before becoming involved with it, especially because sometimes an organization’s status is revoked due to serious concerns like hazing and other behavior that risks your health and safety.

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Jacob

Jacob's Porch's Students

Campus: Columbus
Status: Active II
Purpose Statement: Jacob's Porch is a multifaceted, multi-denominational, collaborative Christian community for college students. We are queer aligned, justice focused  and spiritually driven. Jacob's (one who wrestles with God in the Bible) Porch (meaning neither in nor out) is a Church, Kinda, with deep roots to campus and has been around since the 1920's. We are also student organization and non-profit with non-profit board oversight and accountability. Students who have engaged here are from Ohio State, Capital University, Otterbein, Columbus State, trade schools and elsewhere. There is a place for you. We have a rhythm of meeting on Wednesday nights at 6:06 pm for discussion and Sunday nights at 6:06 pm for a dinner party and worship service . We also serve together, study, collaborate with other student organizations, justice organizing FBO's around the city and are a part of the OSU interfaith council. Please visit us anytime. You can also learn more at www.jacobsporch.com or join our group me for details. The pastors are Lutheran and Methodist. We are also an official Presbyterian ministry. We have students that are christian, non-denominational and who don't identify with any particular kind of Christianity or who don't identify as Christian at all. After all we are all just figuring this stuff out together.
Primary Leader: Nate Krnac
Secondary Leader: Kathryn Wilson
Treasurer Leader: Claire Yang
Advisor: Martin Fitzgerald
Organization Email: office@jacobsporch.com
Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/jacobsporch/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobs_porch
Website: https://www.jacobsporch.com/
Primary Type: Religious/Spiritual
Secondary Types: Religious/Spiritual
Awareness/Activism
Community Service/Service Learning
Primary Make Up: Undergraduate
Constitution: JP Constitution 2025-26 v2.pdf 
Meeting Time and Place: Sun. 6:06pm, Wed 6:06pm
45 E 13th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Office Location: 45 E. 13th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
Membership Type: Open Membership
Membership Contact: Please visit anytime! Our meetings our Wednesdays and Sundays at 6:06 PM. We're located across from the Ohio Union on E. 13th Ave (45 E. 13th Ave). Talk to anyone here, stop by, or join our GroupMe! All are welcome in this place.
Time of Year for New Membership: Any time!
How does a Prospective Member Apply: Walk in our doors. Send us an email at office@jacobsporch.com or join our GroupMe on our web page at www.jacobsporch.com
Charge Dues: No