Which prominent evangelical pastors have publicly endorsed Turning Point USA and when did they do so?

1. TPUSA’s strategy: pastor-focused events that blur advocacy and ministry

Turning Point USA has developed a TPUSA Faith arm and staged pastor-targeted gatherings—Pastors Summit, Faith Forward and events like AmericaFest—to train and mobilize clergy, framing political engagement as part of ministry; TPUSA materials and recaps list pastors and Christian leaders among speakers, showing the organization’s strategy to embed itself in evangelical networks ^{[3] [5]}. Reporting from Religion News describes speakers urging pastors to create parallel 501(c)^[1] structures so churches can endorse candidates—an explicit political mobilization tactic promoted at TPUSA events ^[2].

2. Which pastors appear in TPUSA’s public programming (and thus have signaled support)?

TPUSA’s own recap of its Pastors Summit lists speakers including Pastor Rob McCoy, Charlie Kirk, and other high-profile Christian figures, and ChurchLeaders reported Greg Laurie, Lucas Miles, Charlie Kirk, and Samuel Rodriguez set to speak at a TPUSA Faith summit—appearances that amount to public association with TPUSA though not necessarily formal endorsement statements with dates ^{[3] [4]}. Religion News also quotes pastors such as Shane Winnings participating and echoing TPUSA-hosted panels ^[2].

3. Distinguishing “appeared with” from “publicly endorsed”

Available reporting and TPUSA materials document pastors speaking at TPUSA events or being featured on TPUSA platforms; that is evidence of public association with TPUSA programming ^{[3] [4]}. However, the sources do not consistently provide formal, dated "I endorse Turning Point USA" declarations from each pastor; in many cases the record is event participation or positive mentions rather than a dated endorsement statement ^{[3] [2]}. If you need a list of formal endorsement statements with dates, available sources do not mention such a compiled list.

4. High-profile moments tied to electoral mobilization

At AmericaFest and TPUSA’s political trainings, Charlie Kirk took “a victory lap” for the 2024 Trump win and TPUSA panels explicitly urged pastors to mobilize voters and overcome concerns about the Johnson Amendment—telling religious leaders how to set up complementary political arms to endorse candidates ^[2]. MinistryWatch and other outlets recount TPUSA’s explicit goal to “mobilize pastors” ahead of elections, tying public pastor engagement to electoral outcomes ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Where reporting disagrees or leaves gaps

Different outlets emphasize different facts: TPUSA’s own pages highlight summit speakers and attendance numbers (over 1,100 pastors in Nashville per TPUSA recap) as evidence of a pastor network ^[3], while Religion News and MinistryWatch focus on the political content and pressure on pastors to endorse candidates or skirt IRS rules ^{[2] [7]}. Sources do not uniformly list the dates of individual pastors’ endorsements; some speak at 2023–2025 events, but a comprehensive, dated roster of “prominent evangelical pastors who publicly endorsed TPUSA and when” is not present in the available reporting ^{[3] [4] [2]}.

6. What counts as “endorsement” and suggested next steps

In this coverage, public appearance at a TPUSA event or speaking on TPUSA platforms is the clearest documented form of public alignment ^{[3] [4]}. Formal endorsements—explicit, dated statements like “I endorse Turning Point USA”—are not consistently reported in these sources. If you want precise endorsement names and dates, I can search for direct public statements or social-media posts and compile a dated list; current sources do not provide that compiled evidence (not found in current reporting).

Limitations and transparency: This analysis uses only the supplied set of articles and TPUSA materials; they document many pastor appearances and TPUSA’s push to politicize pulpits but do not collectively offer a definitive, dated list of formal endorsements from specific evangelical leaders ^{[3] [2] [4] [7]}.