Greg Surratt is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, which was planted with the goal of reaching unchurched people in the Charleston area. Greg led Seacoast as it grew from one campus to many, as Seacoast became one of the first churches to pioneer the multi-site approach to the weekend experience.

Greg is a co-founder of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), which is a global church-planting initiative that has established over 1000 churches worldwide since its founding in 2000.

Greg also founded The Retreat at Church Creek, a refuge for pastors who feel alone, burned out, and are in need of support. The Retreat at Church Creek is a 66-acre retreat center just 30 minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from downtown Charleston owned and operated by The Pastors Collective non-profit.

Jerome and his wife, Crystal planted Vision Church in Raleigh in 2010 where he still serves as Lead Pastor. Jerome is also an author, and the founder of The Urban Perspective and active in church planting in the RDU area.

You can find his books here.

Matt is the author of the book I AM – Encounter the One Who Gives You Purpose and Peace in a Crazy World. He also serves on the leadership team for the Association of Related Churches (ARC), a church planting organization that believes in planting life-giving churches across the world. With a passion to train leaders internationally, Matt also serves as an associate trainer with Equip. Equip was started by John Maxwell and has trained over 2 million church leaders around the world. Matt graduated with a B.S. from Liberty University in Church Ministries and a M.A. in Ministerial Leadership from Southeastern University.

Dr. Allen Holmes, author of Redefined: A Simple Path to a Hope-Filled Life, and Lead Pastor of Definition Church for 23 years. His greatest passion is to see people cultivate an authentic, transformative relationship with Jesus.

Chris Hankins serves as the President and Movement Leader of Carolina Movement, a church-planting organization focused on planting churches across North Carolina. Chris also serves as the Founding Pastor and Lead Missionary at Point Church in the Raleigh area.  Chris has lived in North Carolina his entire life and feels a specific calling to see a church planting movement in our State.

Jason serves as the Executive Pastor of Next Gen and Mobilization at Biltmore Church in Asheville, NC. Prior to his time at Biltmore, he served as a Family Ministries Pastor at Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC for 15 years. His driving passion is to see families reached, equipped, and unleashed on the world to take the gospel down the hallways of their homes to the unreached people groups across the globe.

Married to his wife Katie, they have three children; Holt (15), Annie (13), and Parks (10). Jason is an avid outdoorsman, a baseball enthusiast, book junkie, Garden & Gun Magazine connoisseur, and a lover of college sports.

Clint has been married to his best friend, Rachel, for 10+ years. They have 3 children. In 2013 he was called as the Lead Pastor of Freedom Church in Lincolnton, NC. After four fruitful years at Freedom Church, Clint and Rachel, along with the elders of Freedom Church, believed God to be calling Freedom to send the Darsts (along with the Vandalls and the Tucks) out to plant King’s Cross Church in Greensboro. He will serve full-time as the Lead Pastor of King’s Cross Church.