Which pastors and churches publicly partnered with Charlie Kirk and Turning Point Faith?
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Executive summary
Turning Point Faith — the faith arm of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point movement — publicly partnered with a range of prominent conservative evangelical pastors, speakers and at least one named church network, using pastor summits, speaker lineups and joint tours to recruit clergy into partisan civic activity; its most visible collaborators include Pastor Rob McCoy (Godspeak Calvary Chapel) and a roster of right‑of‑center ministers and organizations who have appeared at TPUSA Faith events or been announced as partners or speakers [1] [2] [3] [4]. Critics and watchdogs have characterized those partnerships as explicit efforts to fuse political organizing with Christian nationalist theology, while TPUSA Faith presents the work as “civic engagement” for churches [5] [6] [2].
1. Rob McCoy — the co‑founder and visible pastor partner
Rob McCoy, the Pentecostal/Calvary‑style pastor who co‑founded TPUSA Faith with Charlie Kirk, is the clearest and most consistently documented pastoral partner: sources credit McCoy as Kirk’s spiritual mentor, co‑chair of TPUSA Faith and the pastor emeritus of Godspeak/Calvary‑style ministry who helped persuade Kirk to mobilize pastors politically [1] [3] [7].
2. Speaker rosters that double as partnership lists
TPUSA Faith’s public pastor summits and Faith Forward events have explicitly listed a wide set of conservative religious figures as speakers or partners — names include Greg Laurie, Lucas Miles, Jack Hibbs, Samuel Rodríguez, Steve Deace, John Amanchukwu, Lila Rose, Frank Turek, Eric Metaxas and others — and those public speaking roles amount to partnerships insofar as those leaders promoted or legitimized TPUSA Faith programming to pastors [4] [6].
3. Sean Feucht and “Kingdom to the Capitol” — a named strategic collaboration
TPUSA Faith announced a concrete partnership with Sean Feucht for a “Kingdom to the Capitol” revival tour — a high‑profile collaboration that fused Feucht’s revivalist profile (and his prior COVID‑era defiance of public‑health rules) with TPUSA Faith’s plan to mobilize churchgoers at state capitols [6].
4. Christian nationalist activists and allied organizations on TPUSA stages
Beyond pastoral names, TPUSA Faith’s events have featured or listed Christian nationalist activists and groups — David Barton, Mat Staver and Chad Connelly appear in reporting as speakers or associated activists at TPUSA events — signaling organizational alignment with long‑standing anti‑separation and “biblical citizenship” projects [6] [3].
5. Local pastors and churches attending or hosted at summits
Reporting from the 2025 TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit documents local pastors from a variety of churches delivering messages aligned with TPUSA’s themes — for example, Marty Baker of Stevens Creek Church spoke at a panel with Kirk — showing that individual church leaders and their congregations were publicly engaged by TPUSA Faith even if entire denominations did not formally sign on [8].
6. How the partnerships were framed and contested
TPUSA and Kirk framed these pastor and speaker partnerships as training churches for civic engagement and “returning to foundational Christian values,” including faith‑based voter drives in investor prospectus documents; critics including Political Research Associates and Media Matters say that the partnerships intentionally lean into Christian nationalism and political organizing rather than neutral civic education [2] [5] [6].
7. Limits of available public reporting
Public reporting clearly documents named pastors, speakers and at least one co‑founder church affiliation (Rob McCoy/Godspeak-style Calvary) and lists of summit speakers and tour partners [1] [4] [6], but it does not provide a comprehensive, authenticated roster of every local church that formally “partnered” or signed agreements with TPUSA Faith; where reporting is silent, this account does not assert additional affiliations beyond those named in the sources [2] [9].