Which megachurches have hosted Turning Point USA or Charlie Kirk events in the U.S. since 2015?

1. Turning Point’s strategy: moving into megachurch sanctuaries

Turning Point expanded beyond college campuses into houses of worship via an initiative often called TPUSA Faith or “Freedom Night in America,” using megachurch stages and pastor summits to reach religious audiences; reporting documents monthly and recurring Freedom Night gatherings at Dream City Church in Phoenix and Faith/Pastors Summits hosted at large churches such as Free Chapel in Gainesville, GA ^{[2] [3] [1]}.

2. Named megachurches where TPUSA/Kirk spoke or staged events

Journalistic and organizational sources specifically identify Free Chapel (pastored by Jentezen Franklin) as hosting a TPUSA Pastors Summit event attended by Charlie Kirk and TPUSA Faith ^{[1] [6]}. Dream City Church in Phoenix is repeatedly referenced as a launching pad for Kirk’s “Freedom Night in America” and as a home venue for monthly events and AmericaFest-related gatherings ^{[2] [3] [7]}. Southern California Calvary/Godspeak-style megachurches — connected to pastor Rob McCoy and other Calvary Chapel pastors — are repeatedly tied to Kirk and Turning Point’s faith outreach ^{[2] [8]}.

3. What the sources say about timing and scale

Turning Point’s church-facing efforts accelerated after the creation of “TPUSA Faith” around 2021–2023, with large pastors’ summits (e.g., Nashville meeting of 1,100 pastors reported by TPUSA for a Pastors Summit) and TPUSA organizing Believers’ Summit and Faith Forward gatherings in convention centers and resort venues in 2024–2025 ^{[4] [5] [9]}. Dream City is described as hosting monthly Freedom Night events in earlier years and later major TPUSA gatherings such as AmericaFest ^{[2] [10]}.

4. Sources and their perspectives — converging facts, different emphases

TPUSA’s own event pages emphasize scale and intent: “Faith Events,” Believers’ Summit, and recaps touting thousands of attendees and pastors’ meetings ^{[11] [5] [4]}. Independent reporting and critique (Word&Way, Political Research Associates, and other outlets) focus on the political aims and Christian nationalist alliances underpinning those church partnerships and name specific megachurch hosts like Free Chapel and Dream City ^{[1] [2] [3]}. These are competing vantage points: TPUSA frames the work as spiritual mobilization, critics frame it as political organizing inside churches ^{[5] [2]}.

5. What’s documented and what isn’t

Available reporting names several megachurch partners (Free Chapel, Dream City, Calvary/Godspeak-affiliated churches) and documents repeated, organized TPUSA Faith programming inside church venues after 2021, but sources do not supply an exhaustive, date-by-date list of every U.S. megachurch that hosted Turning Point events since 2015 ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}. For a complete roster, organizers’ event archives or individual church calendars would need to be cross-checked; those comprehensive lists are not present in the provided material (not found in current reporting).

6. How to verify further (next reporting steps)

To build a definitive list, examine archived TPUSA/TPUSA Faith event pages and ticket registers, individual megachurch event calendars (e.g., Dream City, Free Chapel, large Calvary Chapel sites), and local press coverage for town-by-town confirmations; the TPUSA event pages and recaps are a primary trail but are partial and promotional by nature ^{[4] [11]}. Independent local reporting and church announcements would confirm dates and hosting arrangements not catalogued in the sources here (not found in current reporting).

Limitations: this account relies only on the supplied documents and therefore cannot claim completeness; the supplied sources emphasize a handful of megachurch partners and TPUSA’s institutional pivot to church-based events but do not publish an exhaustive nationwide list ^{[2] [5]}.