Oct 7-8th, 2025 – Greensboro, NC
Join us on October 7-8th as leaders from across North Carolina come together for our annual two-day gathering in Greensboro, North Carolina. We will learn how we can work together to see a church planting movement in NC as we help every church become a church planting church! We will also cultivate life changing relationships as we have a ton of fun together!
What to Expect
5 Winning By Sending MAIN SESSIONS
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
NETWORK WITH LEADERS, PASTORS & PLANTERS ACROSS NC
AFFORDABLE FOR YOUR ENTIRE TEAM
NATIONAL AND NC SPEAKERS
Food Trucks ON TUESDAY
A Night of FUn on Tuesday Night
Breakout Topics
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Overflow: How to Disciple Givers, Cast Vision, and Fund the Missio
Raising Kingdom Generosity in a Post-Christian World
In a culture growing more skeptical of the church and disconnected from biblical generosity, how can we disciple people to live open-handedly? This session offers practical strategies for building a proactive culture of generosity that not only fuels your church but also supports new church plants and multiplication.
You’ll Learn How To:
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Cast a compelling vision that inspires next-gen givers to plant and multiply churches
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Run effective year-end and seasonal campaigns that resource new works
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Shift from reactive fundraising to proactive generosity that advances planting
🔑 Breakout Theme: Generosity isn’t about dollars—it’s about discipleship and multiplication.
The Next Wave: How Gen Z Will Change the World (If We Let Them)
Raising and Releasing the Digital Disciples, Planters, and Culture Shapers of Tomorrow
This breakout explores how to disciple the two most spiritually open—and digitally distracted—generations in history. You’ll learn to lead Gen Z into mission ownership, turning passive attendance into purpose-driven impact.
From Parking Lot to Pulpit: Building Leadership Pipelines That Actually Work
How to Develop Everyday Volunteers into Disciple-Making Leaders and Church Planters
Your next planter might be stacking chairs right now. Learn to identify, disciple, and develop high-capacity volunteers into leaders who multiply.
You’ll Learn:
- How to structure residencies and leadership tracks
- How to identify and develop emerging leaders
- How to build a scalable culture of multiplication
Exegete the Text. Engage the Streets.
How to Preach the Gospel in a Way That Connects Without Compromising
Preaching today requires more than clarity—it requires cultural fluency. This session will help communicators rightly divide Scripture while speaking to real-life tensions, generational trauma, and cultural confusion.
You’ll Learn:
- How to preach Christ-centered, culturally aware sermons
- How to exegete both text and context
- How to move people from inspiration to transformation
Breaking Barriers: From 100 to 1,000 Without Losing the Mission
How to Grow Strategically So You Can Send Boldly
Growth is not the end—it’s the means to send. Learn how to break common growth lids (size, systems, staffing, space) while staying focused on the Great Commission.
You’ll Learn:
- Why growth must serve mission, not comfort
- Structures and systems for growth stages (100–1,000+)
- How to scale your team, culture, and communication without burnout
Ideal for:
- Churches between 75–1,000 in attendance
- Planters nearing early growth ceilings
- Teams ready to scale for the sake of sending
Multiplication Mindset: Becoming a Sending Church in a Staying World
How to Build a Culture That Raises, Trains, and Releases Disciples into the Harvest
This breakout unpacks how to shift from addition to multiplication by developing a sending culture, even in urban or post-Christian contexts.
Ideal for:
- Pastors shifting from keeping to sending
- Churches exploring residencies or campus launches
- Teams discipling leaders with gospel grit and depth
How to Multiply Disciples and Leaders in One of the Fastest-Growing Mission Fields in America
Engaging the Hispanic Harvest with Vision, Humility, and Power
Learn how to reach and raise Hispanic and bicultural leaders through church planting, bilingual campuses, and cross-cultural partnerships.
You’ll Learn:
- Why Hispanic engagement must be part of your multiplication strategy
- How to build bridges across language, culture, and generations
- What second-gen Latinos need from the Church today
Ideal for:
- Churches in multicultural neighborhoods
- Leaders exploring bilingual or Spanish-speaking models
- Teams supporting or raising Hispanic planters
Called, Covered, and Courageous
Thriving as a Pastor’s Wife Without Losing Yourself
Ministry is a unique road for the woman beside the leader. This breakout creates space for pastors’ wives to breathe, be real, and find encouragement in their calling.
You’ll Explore:
- Leading with grace under pressure
- Living with joy in the shadows of leadership
- Staying grounded in your identity and faith
- Building spiritual strength and community
Field-Tested & Fire-Approved: 20 Bold Ideas to Multiply Your Church’s Sending Impact
Real Strategies from Real Churches That Are Winning by Sending
Get 20 practical, field-tested ideas to help move your church from addition to multiplication—no theory, just tools you can use tomorrow.
Topics Include:
- Building sending pipelines without burnout
- Funding multiplication on any budget
- Turning consumers into co-laborers
- Scalable tools, rhythms, and systems
Built to Send: Worship That Forms Disciples and Fuels Mission
How to Lead Worship That Awakens People to the Presence and Purposes of God
Worship shapes hearts for mission. This session explores how to build a worship culture that forms disciples, reflects your mission, and supports church multiplication.
You’ll Learn:
- How to lead teams with excellence and humility
- How to curate mission-aligned worship experiences
- How worship fuels next-gen discipleship and sending
Ideal for:
Worship leaders, creative teams, musicians, and pastors who want more than a great sound—they want a sending sound.
Church in a Trailer, Fire in Your Bones
How to Build a Thriving Mobile Church That Reaches and Sends
Church in a box doesn’t mean mission on pause. Learn how to thrive in mobile environments with streamlined systems and a sending mindset.
You’ll Learn:
- Volunteer systems that work
- Gear that’s worth the investment
- Hospitality, worship, and kids ministry in portable spaces
- How to keep vision strong without a permanent space
Ideal for:
Planters, portable churches, and leaders doing church in schools, theaters, or leased spaces.
Clarify the Win: Aligning Staff, Volunteers, and Vision
Getting Everyone on the Same Page and Pulling the Same Direction
When no one knows what a win looks like, everyone makes up their own. This breakout helps you define success and build a culture of clarity, alignment, and movement.
Ideal for:
Pastors, ministry directors, and team leaders managing staff or volunteers.
Sunday Systems: Multiply Impact Without Burning Out Your Team
How to Build Flow, Fix Friction, and Deliver Spirit-Led Excellence Every Week
Sunday is still the front door. Learn how to build systems that support consistency, hospitality, worship, tech, and follow-up without burnout.
Ideal for:
Worship, tech, and hospitality leaders; production teams; Sunday experience directors.
The Content Engine: Turning Moments Into Mission
How to Repurpose Sermons, Stories, and Testimonies to Reach More People
If you’re not telling the story, you’re losing momentum. Build a content engine that turns what’s already happening in your church into digital mission.
Ideal for:
Communications staff, creative teams, worship leaders, and digital discipleship leaders.
Next Gen Revival: Making Disciples, Not Just Memories
How to Build Kids, Student, and Young Adult Ministries That Last
Pizza is great—but purpose is better. This breakout helps you create next-gen ministries rooted in discipleship, spiritual depth, and multiplication.
Ideal for:
Kids, student, and young adult leaders building long-term spiritual growth.
From Rows to Relationships: Groups That Grow People and Multiply Leaders
How to Move People from Attenders to Disciple-Makers in Community
Small groups should be engines for discipleship and leadership. This session helps you create groups that move people deeper, develop leaders, and multiply impact.
Ideal for:
Groups pastors, small group leaders, and anyone overseeing discipleship systems.
COST
REgular Price
$69.00
Speakers
Andrew Hopper
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Andrew serves as the lead pastor of Mercy Hill Church. Mercy Hill was launched in 2012 by a group of 30 faithful individuals. By God’s grace, the church has seen rapid growth and sending! In response to God’s blessing, Andrew always says, “We praise God and pray for more.” We praise God for changed lives and pray for God to do far more than we can ask or think. Mercy Hill is centered on the Gospel and has a radical commitment to the nations. Our desire is to make disciples and multiply churches.
Todd Wilson
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Greg Surratt
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Jerome Gay Jr.
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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.
Dr. Allen Holmes
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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.
Corey Alley
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Corey Alley serves as the Executive Director for Carolina Movement as well as Church Planter and Lead Pastor of Sojo Church in Concord, NC. Corey and his wife Betsey have lived in Cabarrus County for the last 25 years.
Chris Hankins
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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.
Tadd Grandstaf
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Patrick Bradley
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Dr. Eric Freeman
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Dan Francis
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Dan Francis serves as the Senior Pastor of Christ Community Church in Pinehurst, North Carolina, where he leads with a passion for preaching, discipleship, and Christ-centered community. With nearly two decades of ministry experience, Dan has served the local church in various roles, always committed to helping people encounter the life-changing power of the Gospel. A gifted communicator and shepherd, he believes the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the hope of the world and works to make that message central in every aspect of church life. Under his leadership, Christ Community strives to be a welcoming, mission-minded church-rooted in Scripture, focused on making disciples, and actively serving Pinehurst and beyond. Dan is passionate about equipping believers to grow in faith and live out their calling in everyday life, and he and his family are grateful to call Pinehurst home.
Clint Darst
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Jonathan Yarboro
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Josué Rodriguez
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Marié Bailey
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More speakers to be announced soon!
GET THE DETAILS
Check out the full conference schedule and more.
Oct 7 (TUESDAY) @ 9AM-5:45PM:
9:00am – Registration Opens
10:00am – Main Session 1
11:15am – Breakout Session 1
12:15pm – Lunch
1:45pm – Main Session 2
3:15pm – Breakout 2
4:15pm – Main Session 3
5:45pm – Day 1 Conclusion
7-9pm – After Party – Round1 Bowling & Arcade
Oct 8 (WEDNESDAY) @ 9AM-1PM:
8:30 am – Coffee & Biscuitville
9:00 am – Main Session 4 & Commissioning
10:30 am – Planter Area Code Breakouts
11:45 am – Main Session 5
1:00pm – Gathering Concludes
Hotel Recommendations
The below hotels are conveniently located within 10 minutes of Definition Church. Please call the hotel directly to secure your reservation.
Sheraton Greensboro Hotel /Joseph S. Koury Convention Center
Address:
3121 West Gate City Boulevard
Greensboro, North Carolina 27407
Phone:
336-292-9161
Hampton Inn & Suites Greensboro Coliseum
Address:
3033 West Gate City Boulevard
Greensboro, NC 27403
Phone:
336-553-1818
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BRING YOUR TEAM
It’s one thing for a church pastor to be passionate about church planting, but what happens when an entire leadership team catches the vision? Your church can unleash its potential to be a church planting church!
- Staff
- Elders
- Spouses
- Ministry Leaders
- Key Volunteers
- Potential Planters
