A faith-based college that puts heavy emphasis on religious studies and athletics wants to construct a university campus on 58 acres of Santa Rosa County cropland north of Pace.
Land owner Ronald Kilpatrick will seek a conditional use zoning March 12 to allow him to sell property along Chumuckla Highway to the founders of John Melvin Christian College.
The college bills itself as an independent offshoot of the John Melvin University System and a sister school of John Melvin University, which opened its doors in 2022 in Crowley, Louisiana and lists its current enrollment at about 150 students…