Mount Vernon Baptist Church

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Feed My Sheep is a one-day conference to equip and encourage church leaders in truth, leadership, and fellowship

For more than ten years, Feed My Sheep has sought to be a conference that is 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, and it begins at the local level. Feed My Sheep is 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 Christ Family Church in Dahlonega, GA, for FMS > Atlanta.

 

When

Monday, February 23, 2026
Check-in and Breakfast | 8:30 – 9:30 am
Conference  |  9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Where

Mount Vernon Baptist Church
850 Mt Vernon Hwy NW
Atlanta, GA 30327

Register

Early Bird  |  $39 + fees (ends December 12)
Standard  |  $49 + fees (December 13 – February 2)
Late |  $59 + fees (February 2 – 23)

2026 Speakers

Michael Lawrence

Senior Pastor
Hinson Baptist Church
Portland, OR

Michael Lawrence (PhD, Cambridge University; MDiv, Gordon-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. Michael and his wife, Adrienne, have five children and two daughters-in-law.

Nathan Raynor

Pastor
Christ Family Church
Dahlonega, GA

Matt Rogers is pastor of Christ Fellowship Cherrydale in Greenville, SC, having planted the church in 2009. Matt also serves as Assistant Professor for Church Planting and Missions at Southeastern Theological Seminary (SEBTS) in Wake Forest, NC. Matt holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity and PhD from SEBTS. Matt writes and speaks throughout the United States on discipleship, church planting, and missions. Matt and his wife, Sarah, have five children.

Aaron Menikoff

Senior Pastor
Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Sandy Springs, GA

Aaron has served as the Senior Pastor at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2008. He and his wife Deana have four children with their youngest still at home. Aaron is the author of Politics and Piety, Character Matters, and the co-author of Prioritizing Missions in the Church. He is an adjunct professor of church history at Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta and a founding board member of the Association of Churches for Missions & Evangelism. Prior to entering pastoral ministry, Aaron served as a legislative assistant to United States Senator Mark O. Hatfield.

More about Aaron Menikoff

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.

2026 Schedule

Morning Session
8:30 am Check-in and Breakfast
9:30 am Welcome
10:00 am Session I
11:05 am Break
11:25 am Session II

Afternoon Session
12:30 pm Lunch & Women’s Luncheon
2:00 pm Session III
3:00 pm Break
3:10 pm Session IV
4:30 pm Conference Concludes

Resources

Listen to past conference talks:

FAQs

You may email us at fms@mvbchurch.org.

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

  • Full refund minus fees from November 8 – December 12
  • $20 cancellation fee from December 13 – January 31
  • No refunds will be given after January 31.

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Yes. Please contact us at fms@mvbchurch.org.

No. We have everything needed.

We will email all attendees details about check-in the week before the conference.

We do not want finances to hinder you from attending. Please complete this application if you need financial assistance.

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ACME Fellowship Dinner

Following Feed My Sheep on February 23, 2026 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Location: Mount Vernon Baptist Church

Cost: $20 per person

Church pastors are invited for a special dinner following Feed My Sheep for ACME 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 board member, Michael Lawrence, 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 19.

About ACME

ACME exists to unite and mobilize like-minded churches to fund pastors, church planters, missionaries, and other projects around the world. For more information, visit acmefellowship.org. 

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