Feed My Sheep 2026

Feed My Sheep

For more than ten years, Feed My Sheep has sought to be a conference that is as theologically rich and relationally warm. We live in a day and age where national denominations are riddled with controversy. We should work hard to reclaim fellowship through doctrinal unity, beginning at the local level. For ten years, Feed My Sheep has been a humble attempt to reclaim such fellowship. It is not a conference about building bigger ministries but about leaning into our all-sufficient God in ministry. Ralph Turnbull put it well:

We may be perfectly sure that the one thing which we all know about the craft or mystery of the ministry is our sense of failure in it. The ideal allures us to ever-increasing attainment and the well which is deep is within every godly life, and daily we may keep on drinking from the living water of the Spirit. The cistern contains, but a fountain overflows. Here is the secret of divine affluence, being “filled with all the fulness of God.”

Join us, along with guest speakers Michael Lawrence of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, OR, and Nathan Raynor of Providence Baptist Church in Dahlonega, GA, for FMS > Atlanta.

Women’s Luncheon

All women are invited to a special luncheon to connect with and encourage one another. This lunch is included in the cost of registration

Registration Pricing

• Early Bird | $39+ Fees (ends on December 12)
• Regular | $49 + Fees (December 13 – February 2)
• Late | $59 + Fees (February 2 –23)
• Students & Missionary | $39 + Fees (December 13 – February 2)

Registration includes conference resources, breakfast, and lunch.

Speakers

Michael Lawrence

Senior Pastor

Hinson Baptist Church | Portland, Oregon

Michael Lawrence (PhD, Cambridge University; MDiv, Goron-Conwell Theological Seminary) serves as lead pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, oregon, where he has pastored for 15 years. He is the author of Biblical Theology in the LIfe of the Church and Conversion: How God Creates a People. IMichael and his wife, Adrienne, have five children and two daughters-in-law.

Nathan Raynor

Senior Pastor

Providence Baptist Church| Dahlonega, GA

Nathan has served as the Senior Pastor of Providence Baptist Church (formerly called Christ Family Church) in Dahlonega for 17 years. He and his wife Sam have been married for 19 years and have three boys aged 15, 13, and 9.

Aaron Menikoff

Senior Pastor

Mount Vernon Baptist Church

Aaron has served as the Senior Pastor at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2008. Prior to pastoral ministry, Aaron worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. After leaving politics, he went on staff and served as an elder at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. While in seminary, Aaron served as an elder and interim pastor at Third Avenue Baptist Church. He has his M.Div. in Biblical and Theological Studies and Ph.D. in American Church History from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Politics and Piety and Character Matters and an Adjunct Professor of Church History at RTS–Atlanta. Aaron is the husband of Deana and the father of the four children.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations submissions must be made by emailing fms@mvbchurch.org.

• Full refund minus fees from November 8 – December 13
• $20 cancellation fee from December 14 – January 31
• No refunds will be given after January 31.
  
  

FAQs

For answers to frequently asked questions, check out the FAQ section on our website.

ACME Fellowship Dinner

Following Feed My Sheep on February 23, 2026

Cost: $20 per person

Church pastors are invited for a special dinner following Feed My Sheep for member churches and those interested in learning more about the Association of Churches for Missions & Evangelism (ACME). We invite you to come hear more from Aaron Menikoff, ACME Chairman, and others about why they have led their churches to join this exciting new fellowship. Purchase your joint conference + dinner ticket using the Feed My Sheep registration page. Sign ups end February 18. Learn more at acmefellowship.org.