One Operating System to Rule Them All
(Bobby Herrington, Lead Pastor of Ministries & Operations)

• Mercy Hill uses an “operating system” called EOS that has brought clarity around their vision and goals, their meeting rhythms, their staff alignment, and how they get things done. EOS is pervasive in all conversations around their systems and processes. But what is it? This breakout session will explain what it is, how they implemented it, and how a system built for entrepreneurial businesses has revolutionized their efficiency and Kingdom impact.

Residency: It’s About Sending, Not Labor
(Brandon Newton, Residency Director)

• Mercy Hill brought on ministry residents starting in 2014, two years into their existence. That residency has proved the missing link between their sending potential and their sending productivity because it has relentlessly served the sending mission of the church. This breakout session will explore what their current iteration looks like and how it became what it is today. Expect super-practical tips and transparency in what had to be corrected along the way.

Peoples Over People: Sending as North Star
(Landon Jordan, International Missions Director)

• Mercy Hill Church ranks among the Top 5 Sending Churches with the IMB every year. In 2024, they sent more missionaries than any other church in the SBC. Their north star is to send 500 people on domestic church plants and as international missionaries by 2032. They are on track for 150 of them to be sent to the nations. How does a church so focused on growth produce so many “sent ones?” This breakout will share their journey from short-term sending to long-term sending and the process they use to sustain it.

Mercy Hill’s Church Planting Pipeline
(Bryan Miller, Director of Sending Development)

• Pipelines are designed to move product from one point to another. Mercy Hill’s pipeline, though iterated many times for scale, produces at least one church planter per year from within the church. These planters have been identified, trained, and sent…all from within the house. This breakout will pull back the curtain on Mercy Hill’s church planting journey by covering the shift from what Mercy Hill calls “Partner Planting to Parent Planting” and how their current pipeline moves people from gifted leaders to prepared church planters.

Collaborative: Helping Churches Plant Churches
(Adam Hatton, Mercy Hill Collaborative Director)

• As a Movement-level Church, Mercy Hill doesn’t just plant churches. They are helping other churches plant churches. This breakout will discuss the relationship and mission of the twenty churches that make up the collaborative, covering things like assessments, funding structures, planter development, and ongoing leader training. It will also unpack the flywheel relationship between their Breaking Barriers ministry and how it fuels the Collaborative proper.

Staff Culture: Just Say It
(Tom Howe, Executive Pastor of Operations)

• There’s nothing wrong with aspiring for your staff culture to grow and become something it’s not. But when it comes to defining your culture, clarity is kindness. Mercy Hill has four values that define their staff team’s culture, and they aren’t for everyone. This breakout session will reveal what those four values are, why they abandoned more flowery aspirational language for the sake of clarity, and how defined values has helped Mercy Hill to become much more proficient in hiring, evaluating, promoting, and firing staff.

Summer Projects: Helping the Next Gen Catch the Sending Bug
(Brant Gordon, Executive Pastor of Discipleship)

• Summers are for sending, and no one has more summer free time than students. This breakout session will utilize leaders from Mercy Hill’s Student Ministry and College Ministry to unpack how Mercy Hill uses the summer to create a pressure cooker for helping students envision and begin to live a sent life. Learn how the summer is structured, how it connects to church planting and international missions, and how it catalyzes the most sendable demographic in the church for the mission of God.

Multi-Site: The Biggest Lever for Developing Leaders
(Randy Titus, Executive Pastor of Worship Services)

• Let’s be clear: Though Mercy Hill is a multi-site church, they do not view “campusing” as planting churches. They don’t even view it as multiplication. Instead, they say, “Multi-site is a church growth strategy while planting is a church multiplication strategy.” From that vantage point, this breakout will outline Mercy Hill’s multi-site strategy and demonstrate how it has served as the single greatest tool in their tool belt for developing leaders at an accelerated pace.