TPUSA Faith Forward Pastors Summit, Free Chapel Gainesville — Cross-Track Integration of NAR, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Streams Under Kirk's Platform

The TPUSA Faith Forward Pastors’ Summit held March 18–20, 2025 at Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia — Pastor Jentezen Franklin’s megachurch — brought together the most densely cross-track speaker roster in TPUSA Faith’s history under Charlie Kirk’s organizational umbrella. Approximately 1,800 attendees registered. Confirmed speakers included: Charlie Kirk, Jentezen Franklin (Foursquare/charismatic megachurch host), John Bevere (NAR-adjacent charismatic author and Messenger International founder), Samuel Rodriguez (NHCLC president, Assemblies of God minister, NAR-connected), Lance Wallnau (Seven Mountains Dominionism primary popularizer), Matt Walsh, Lucas Miles (TPUSA Faith director), Rob McCoy, Eric Metaxas, Riley Gaines, John Amanchukwu, Allen Jackson, Megan Basham, and others. This is the clearest pre-assassination-era event showing Kirk simultaneously hosting NAR/Pentecostal figures (Wallnau, Bevere, Rodriguez, Franklin) on a single TPUSA-organized platform.

What Happened / Key Facts

Free Chapel is a Foursquare megachurch pastored by Jentezen Franklin, a prominent Trump ally and charismatic/Pentecostal pastor whose congregation numbers in the tens of thousands across multiple campuses. That Kirk chose Franklin’s megachurch as the venue — and that Franklin served as both host and speaker — reflects the depth of the TPUSA-Pentecostal-charismatic alignment by March 2025.

The NAR/Pentecostal-track speakers roster:

Lance Wallnau — The Seven Mountains Dominionism popularizer, primary organizer of the Courage Tour (TPUSA co-sponsored), and recurring TPUSA Faith platform presence. Wallnau was “expected to speak” per the Word & Way account but “was a late scratch” from this specific summit, though he was listed in the announced speaker lineup per TPUSA Faith’s pre-event communications and other source confirmation. This represents an intended NAR-primary-theorist presence that ended in absence but with documented intent.

John Bevere — Founder of Messenger International, author of The Bait of Satan and Thus Saith the Lord? Bevere is a leading charismatic author closely associated with the NAR movement’s prophetic culture; Messenger International has trained millions of charismatic leaders. His presence at a Kirk-organized pastoral summit represents the NAR-adjacent charismatic publishing and discipleship network brought under TPUSA Faith’s umbrella.

Samuel Rodriguez — President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC/CONEL), ordained in the Assemblies of God (Pentecostal denomination), board member of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA), and documented NAR-adjacent figure. Per Political Research Associates: Rodriguez is connected to NAR networks and serves as overseer of international church networks. His Assemblies of God ordination places him squarely within the Pentecostal denominational stream. Rodriguez read at Trump’s January 2017 inauguration; his TPUSA Faith appearance integrates the Hispanic Pentecostal megachurch network into Kirk’s coalition.

Jentezen Franklin — Senior pastor of Free Chapel (Gainesville, GA and multiple campuses), Foursquare Gospel denomination (charismatic-Pentecostal), longtime Trump ally. Franklin’s hosting role gave the summit the charismatic-worship megachurch architectural and spiritual register.

Kirk’s own remarks at the summit carried explicit dominionist language:

• The nation needs a “10-15 year exorcism”
• Jesus wants the church “to be expansionist, to be in every single domain” — direct Seven Mountains register without naming the theology
• The church is in “wartime” spiritually
• Per Word & Way reporting, one speaker framed Kirk’s “10-15 year exorcism” call as “a call for a stronger, deeper, wider taking of dominion by those who follow Kirk”

Kirk’s language at this summit — “expansionist, to be in every single domain” — is the closest documented approach to explicit Seven Mountains theological vocabulary in Kirk’s own speaking, six months before his assassination.

Why This Event Matters

The March 2025 Faith Forward Pastors Summit is the clearest pre-assassination-era evidence that Kirk was actively integrating multiple NAR and Pentecostal-track figures on a single TPUSA-organized platform. Unlike the September 2023 San Diego summit (Wallnau only) or the July 2024 Believers Summit (Wilson, Reformed track), the Gainesville event brought:

• NAR-adjacent charismatic publishing network (Bevere / Messenger International)
• Assemblies of God Pentecostal-denominational network (Rodriguez / NHCLC)
• Seven Mountains primary popularizer (Wallnau, announced)
• Foursquare charismatic megachurch infrastructure (Franklin / Free Chapel)

All under Kirk’s TPUSA Faith organizational brand, with Kirk himself delivering explicitly dominionist language about expansion “in every single domain.”

The summit also confirms that TPUSA Faith’s pastoral mobilization infrastructure — which claimed 2,500 recruited churches — was drawing from distinctly Pentecostal and charismatic denominational networks (Assemblies of God via Rodriguez, Foursquare via Franklin) rather than merely generic evangelical megachurches. This is the organizational evidence that the NAR/Pentecostal track was being actively institutionalized, not merely rhetorically adjacent to, Kirk’s coalition.

The March 2025 date — six months before Kirk’s September 10, 2025 assassination — also confirms that the cross-track integration was not a posthumous organizational development but was operational before Kirk’s death.

Broader Context

John Bevere’s participation deserves analytical emphasis because Messenger International operates in the prophetic-charismatic-discipleship ecosystem that is the NAR movement’s primary formation mechanism, even when individual speakers (including Bevere himself) resist the “NAR” label. Bevere’s books have been translated into 100+ languages and distributed through charismatic church networks globally. His appearance at a Kirk summit integrates the charismatic-discipleship infrastructure into TPUSA Faith’s pastoral reach beyond what a political event (Courage Tour) could accomplish.

Samuel Rodriguez’s presence integrates an additional dimension: the Hispanic/Latino Pentecostal megachurch network that Rodriguez represents through the NHCLC is a distinct voter mobilization target from the white evangelical TPUSA base. Rodriguez’s appearance alongside Kirk at a pastoral summit represents Kirk’s deliberate cross-demographic cross-denominational coalition building within the Pentecostal track.

Cross-track structure of this event vs. other TPUSA Faith events:

• Reformed track: NOT represented at this summit (no Wilson or CREC-affiliated speakers identified)
• NAR/Pentecostal track: Comprehensively represented (Bevere, Rodriguez, Franklin; Wallnau announced)
• Catholic-adjacent track: NOT represented (no Catholic-integralist speakers)

This summit is thus the NAR-peak integration event, not the cross-all-three-tracks event. The July 2024 Believers Summit (Wilson) represents the Reformed peak. The cross-all-three-tracks event closest to the thesis would require a venue showing Wilson or a CREC figure alongside Wallnau/Bevere/Rodriguez — not yet documented in the research for this task.

Research Gaps

• Confirm whether Wallnau actually appeared (was a “late scratch” per Word & Way; other sources confirm his announced slot)
• Full attendance figures for each day (reported 1,800 registered but “significantly less” after day one per Word & Way)
• Whether John Bevere’s specific session content included Seven Mountains language or framing
• Any future TPUSA Faith event (post-March 2025, pre-September 10) showing Reformed + NAR speakers on same platform

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