Celebration Church, Jacksonville, FL
Mercy Lokulutu is a dynamic communicator with a passion to teach the transforming truths of the Word of God. With her authentic and humorous style, Mercy’s powerful messages inspire, challenge and equip people to live out their full potential in Christ. She serves as a pastor at Celebration Church in Jacksonville FL.
Carrying the beauty of a rich spiritual heritage, Mercy is a powerhouse for Jesus. She shares the truth of God’s word from a heart that desires to see others rise up in the “extravagant grace and love of Jesus Christ to make a difference in the world." Mercy not only walks in the anointing of a teacher, she also deeply values the calling God has placed on her life as wife and mother. Mercy cherishes being a wife to Marcus and raising Isaiah and Ava-Pauline.
Seacoast Church, Mt. Pleasant, SC
Greg is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, one of the early adopters of the multi-site model.
Located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Seacoast has been recognized by various media as an innovative and influential thought leader in future strategies for church growth and development.
Seacoast combines a unique approach to highly participatory worship with a heart for missional evangelism. Greg calls their weekends a “practical, spirit filled, but non-spooky, yet kind of mystical worship experience, done in multiple locations, very inexpensively.” Seacoast currently has twenty-nine weekend worship experiences in thirteen separate locations.
Greg is also a founding board member of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), a church planting network that has given birth to over 220 churches since 2002. Greg is married to a very hip grandma, has four children, nine grandchildren and enjoys reading, photography, fishing, golfing, and rooting for lost causes…specifically the Cubs, Broncos, and Gamecocks.
One Hope
Dedicated to making the message of the Bible available to every child in their own language and in a way that addresses their unique cultural challenges, Rob Hoskins was appointed president of OneHope (formerly Book of Hope International) in 2004. Hoskins has revolutionized the way OneHope reaches children and youth and has dramatically increased OneHope's effectiveness. In addition to transforming the organizational model, Hoskins has overseen expansion of new methods for sharing the message of the Bible with children and youth such as The GodMan children's animated film. His own passion for missions led to the creation of "OneHope Teams," an initiative that has mobilized thousands to serve in short-term missions and hundreds more to pursue missions as a full-time career.