Our Story

It all started a bright spring day in 1993 when TeenPact founder, Tim Echols, was at the Georgia State Capitol participating in an early morning prayer meeting. As the group said “Amen” that day, Tim shared the vision God had been laying on his heart to start bringing young people to the capitol to learn more about the political process. The idea for a dynamic, hands-on leadership experience for Christian students was met with wholehearted agreement and the name TeenPact was suggested.

Eighteen students met in the Georgia State Capitol for the first class in the spring of 1994. The next year, they brought back the outstanding students to “staff” the following class thus laying the foundation for TeenPact’s iconic peer leadership model.

An instant hit, TeenPact began to quickly spread to other states. A South Carolina class was added in 1995 and now over twenty-five years later, TeenPact State Classes can be found in all 50 states.

Today, TeenPact seeks to inspire youth in their relationship with Christ and train them to understand the political process, value their liberty, defend the Christian faith, and engage the culture around them.

• A Timeline of TeenPact State Classes

  • 1994

    Georgia

  • 1995

    South Carolina

  • 1996

    Alabama, Florida, & Kentucky

  • 1997

    Mississippi & New Mexico

  • 1998

    Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, & Virginia

  • 1999

    New Hampshire, Oregon, & Texas

  • 2000

    Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, & Wyoming

  • 2001

    Arizona & Arkansas

  • 2002

    Idaho*, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, & Washington

  • 2003

    Missouri

  • 2004

    Connecticut & Tennessee*

  • 2005

    Montana

  • 2006

    Alaska

  • 2007

    Michigan, Pennsylvania, & South Dakota

  • 2009

    New Hampshire*

  • 2010

    Delaware, Kansas, & Wisconsin

  • 2013

    Nebraska

  • 2014

    Tennessee*

  • 2015

    New York

  • 2018

    Nevada

  • 2019

    California, Minnesota, & Vermont

  • 2020

    New Jersey

  • 2021

    Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia, & Utah

  • 2023

    North Texas & Central Florida

*Classes were discontinued for a short time and then reopened this year.