When and where was Turning Point Faith founded?
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Executive summary
Turning Point Faith (also styled TPUSA Faith) was launched as an affiliate faith arm tied to Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point movement after 2021; multiple sources credit Kirk and pastor Rob McCoy with founding the faith initiative following Kirk’s departure from Liberty University’s Falkirk Center in 2021 [1]. TPUSA itself was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery; Turning Point Faith is described in TPUSA materials and reporting as an affiliated program created to recruit pastors and engage churches in civic activity [2] [3] [1].
1. A political movement adds a faith arm: origins tied to Charlie Kirk and Rob McCoy
Reporting and biographical entries link Turning Point Faith directly to Charlie Kirk and Pentecostal pastor Rob McCoy, saying the faith organization was founded after Kirk’s Falkirk Center relationship with Liberty University ended in 2021; that sequence places Turning Point Faith’s creation in or soon after 2021 and associates McCoy with helping launch it [1].
2. Affiliation and stated mission: a TPUSA program aimed at pastors and churches
TPUSA’s public materials and TPUSA Faith’s own website describe the program as an affiliate focused on “recruit[ing] pastors and other church leaders to be active in local and national political issues,” running faith groups/chapters, “Biblical Citizenship” courses, national tours and leadership summits to push what it calls biblical principles into civic life [2] [3].
3. Where — geographic footprint versus a single founding location
Available reporting does not name a single street‑address “founding location” for Turning Point Faith; sources emphasize the program’s national rollout and activity rather than a specific birthplace. TPUSA is a U.S.-based organization founded in 2012 [2], and TPUSA Faith represents a nationwide initiative with regional faith representatives and offices listed in multiple U.S. cities in job postings (New Orleans, Columbia/Charleston SC, Phoenix) rather than a sole founding city [4] [5] [6]. TPUSA Faith’s own marketing presents national programs and tours rather than a single headquarters [3].
4. How sources frame the group: advocacy, mobilization, and budgetary scale
TPUSA’s investor prospectus and coverage cited in reporting describe the faith program as an organized political mobilization effort — for example, a 2021 prospectus described a $6.4 million budget for engaging thousands of pastors nationwide to “breathe renewed civic engagement into our churches,” indicating this was launched as an organized, well‑funded expansion of TPUSA’s influence into religious networks [2]. That framing comes from TPUSA internal materials and reporting summarizing them [2].
5. Competing context and similarly named organizations
“Turning Point Faith” or “Turning Point Faith Ministries” also appears as the name of independent local churches and ministries (for example a Missouri City, Texas congregation and other ministries using that name), which are distinct from TPUSA’s TPUSA Faith program — sources for local ministries show worship schedules and local addresses that are not presented as TPUSA affiliates [7] [8]. This creates potential confusion: the TPUSA faith initiative is an affiliate program of Turning Point USA (a national political nonprofit tied to Charlie Kirk); other ministries with similar names are local churches and are not described in the available reporting as part of TPUSA Faith [3] [8] [7].
6. What sources do not say and limitations of the record
Available sources do not provide an exact street address or single venue identified as the “founding site” for Turning Point Faith, nor do they give a formal incorporation date separate from the timeline implied by Kirk’s 2021 Falkirk Center departure [1]. They do not offer internal founding documents in these snippets, so precise legal formation paperwork or an exact launch event location is not cited in current reporting [1] [2] [3].
7. Bottom line for the question “when and where was Turning Point Faith founded?”
Based on reporting and TPUSA materials, Turning Point Faith was launched as TPUSA’s faith arm around 2021 after Charlie Kirk’s split with Liberty University, with Rob McCoy credited as an early partner; the program is presented as a national initiative rather than a single‑site founding, and TPUSA materials describe its role as recruiting pastors and running nationwide faith programs [1] [2] [3]. Sources do not identify a single founding address or a formal incorporation date beyond that 2021 timeframe [1].