I am Chloe Yuille, and I am excited to serve as the Executive Director of the Franklin County Christian Learning Center. I grew up in Franklin County and now my husband Houston and I live in Lavonia where we are raising our two kids on our family farm.

I have been a teacher for the last 5 years. Part of that time with the Franklin County School System.

Our family attends Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Lavonia. I am thankful for the opportunity to partner with you to make Christ known to the students of Franklin County!

I truly believe this work is of utmost importance and would not be possible without your support.

Hello there!

I am Billy Burke, son of Bill and Greta Burke. I am a Carnesville native, a graduate of Franklin County High School (class of 2017), and a graduate of Toccoa Falls College (class of 2021). I have spent the last four years earning degrees in Pastoral Ministry, and Biblical and Theological Studies from the college. I have spent the better part of the past 5 years working (in different capacities) at Quality Foods of Toccoa, and I have spent the past year and a half serving as the youth pastor at Nails Creek Baptist Church in Homer, Ga.

Like so many individuals around North Georgia, I grew up in church. Led by a mother and a father who diligently sought to direct me towards Christ, I have been surrounded by the Gospel from approximately nine months before my birth until present day. Truly such a statement is an unrivaled blessing of the Lord. At the age of 7 years old, hearing the truth of the Gospel, I realized that I needed this salvation that was so freely offered. Out of a sense of fear, I came to Christ seeking Him as Savior. However, the next 10 years of my spiritual journey could be described adequately as stagnant. I was living a hollow excuse of a Christian life. It was the summer before my senior year of High School that this stagnation came to a head. At a Christ-centered football camp which I attended every summer as a member of the Franklin County Lions offensive line, the Lord grabbed my heart in a new way. I realized the incomplete nature of my desire for the Lord up until that moment. My yearning for the Lord had been out of fear and my searching for Him had been without true submission. I had sought Him as Savior, but in that moment at camp, I cried out to Him as Lord. Finally, I was surrendering to Him out of loving recognition of the beauty of His sacrifice rather than begrudgingly approaching Him out of fear of His punishment. A light had been ignited as the Lord began changing me. Over the next 13 months the Lord brought me to a place of deeper surrender and it was the following July that I surrendered to the call of ministry. Abandoning my pursuits of an education in mathematics at the University of Georgia, the Lord led my steps to Toccoa Falls College. In my four years there, through significant, fluctuating, and sometimes painful transformation, the Lord prepared my heart for my ministry ahead.

Here I am today. I am incredibly humbled for the opportunities which have been set before me. My heart for teaching, and my heart for the youth of this generation function as the catalyst through which the Lord has driven me towards this position. I cannot tell you how excited I am to serve as the first teacher in the pilot year of the Franklin County Christian Learning Center. My heart is simple. I desire to teach “...Christ, and Christ crucified…” (1 Corinthians 2:2). That is to say that I promise to do nothing more and nothing less than stand behind the cross and present each student with the brilliant power and unadulterated grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ- That He came, lived, died, rose, ascended, and will one day return all so that “...all might be saved…” (1 Timothy 2:4). My hope and prayer is that we can partner together as a community for the single task of seeing our children come to a live-giving faith in Jesus Christ alone! Thank you all so much, and I cannot wait for the school year to begin!

Sincerely,

Billy Burke