From 202 students saying yes to Jesus at High School Camp, to 395 people in recovery finding new life, hope, and freedom, to more families taking their next step toward fostering and adopting, God is moving in and through His people at Southeast!

Here are some updates on how we are continuing to move together as one church, forward in our mission, and closer to those who need Jesus through our MOVE vision initiatives.

MOVE TOGETHER

Unleash the Next Generation

• 202 students said yes to Jesus at High School Camp, taking a life-changing step of faith. God is moving in the next generation, transforming lives and raising up young people to shine His light in the world.
• 541 adults served as small group leaders at HSC, faithfully walking alongside students throughout the week. Their faithful presence created space for students to ask honest questions, build lasting relationships, and grow in their faith.

Equip Children and Families

Highlight: Recently, a Southeast Kids volunteer excitedly shared the following about our new curriculum: “I just wanted to say that I am really enjoying teaching from this curriculum. All the content has been so good that I am running late in class because I don’t want to leave any of it out. This curriculum is hitting the mark with me and so far, is turning out to be a great tool. Loved today’s lesson and the verses chosen.”

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MOVE FORWARD

See 10,000 Changed Lives

• 689 people have been baptized since Easter through the end of June.
• 5,299 people have been baptized since we began our MOVE journey in April 2025, moving us closer to our goal of seeing 10,000 people experience the new life found only in Jesus in three years.

Send 4,000 on Short-Term Mission Trips

• 355 people have been sent on 29 short-term mission trips across 20 countries this year alone. Since beginning our MOVE journey, that number has grown to 798 people bringing the hope of Jesus to communities around the world. Each trip creates lasting impact for both those who go and those they serve.

Highlight: A recent trip to Poland was marked by unexpected challenges, but through it all, God provided peace, endurance, and opportunities to serve. One conversation with a searching student became a powerful reminder that God works behind the scenes. Thinking she was connected to the ministry, a team member began sharing about faith in Christ, only to learn the next day that leaders had been praying someone would reach out to her.

Changing Lives at Camp

• 5,612 people have attended a Southeast Camp this Summer—with Middle School Camp still to come. Through life-changing experiences and intentional relationships, more students and leaders than ever are discovering God’s purpose and passion for their lives.
• 871 people subscribed to Pray4Camp, receiving prayer prompts throughout the Summer to faithfully pray for campers, leaders, and the life-changing work God is doing through Southeast Camps. Together, they’re covering every camp in prayer from beginning to end.

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MOVE CLOSER

Help the Hurting

• Around 30 people attended Care Ministry’s recent Anxiety Workshop at the Prospect Campus, marking an encouraging first step. Many left excited to become facilitators and help launch new Care groups, adding to the 44 started across all our campuses as we move closer to our goal of 75 new support and recovery groups over three years.

Support Recovery Centers

• SE Recovery is now engaged with 24 recovery centers, closing in on our goal of supporting 25 centers in two years.
• Through these partnerships, 395 people have stepped into the waters of baptism this year alone, walking into the life, freedom, and hope found only in Christ.

Highlight: Individuals actively engaged with SE Recovery worship services and Spiritual Pathway classes are continuing to grow in their personal connection with Jesus and follow His leading to share His message with others. Whether advocating for Spiritual Pathway classes at their facility, leading them, or volunteering in worship services, their lives reflect how the Lord multiplies faithfulness one person at a time.

Equip 150 New Families to Foster and Adopt

• June’s Coffee & Conversations gathering at the Indiana Campus welcomed its largest attendance yet. It’s a strong sign that the recent Be The One weekend at the campus—which introduced families to our discernment pathway for those exploring whether fostering or adoption could be their next step—inspired more families to continue that journey.

Southeast recently paid off a $1.5 million mortgage for The Next Door Recovery, a Nashville-area treatment center for women—freeing the organization to expand its staff and serve more women on their journey toward recovery.

Women like Stevie Davis.

“When I came into treatment, my relationship with my 5-year-old daughter was very broken. She told me that she hated me,” Stevie said. “To be able to come through here and learn all of these coping skills, to learn communication, to kind of process my past and what happened and forgive others really sets me up to be a good mother.”

Today, Stevie is raising a 3-year-old born after she achieved sobriety, grateful for the chance to be the mother she always hoped she could be. “I get to show up and be a different parent for her today. I have her in a Christian school…I get to be present with her today,” she said.

Four and a half years after arriving at The Next Door Recovery as a client, Stevie now serves as the center’s Peer Support Specialist, walking alongside women facing the same struggles she once did.

“I’d been to several other treatment centers, and nothing had worked out for me. This place was different because I felt like the people really cared,” she said. “I would sit in my room, and I would look out and just dream of the day that I got to come back to work here.”

One of the mantras of our church is Catch the Wind, the idea that we want to raise our sails and let the Holy Spirit take us as a church where God wants us to go. The Holy Spirit led us to launch the Franklin Campus a year ago. As our recovery ministry began exploring partnerships across the Nashville area, God led us directly to The Next Door Recovery.

Over the past several months, Southeast has been leading a weekly worship service at the center, building relationships with women in recovery as many have made decisions to follow Jesus.

“MOVE is all about us as a church corporately saying, ‘How can we move closer to where people are in darkness and hurting and bring them into the light and shine with the way that only Jesus can?’” said Steve Carter, Executive Pastor of Ministry Support.

Paying off the $1.5 million balance of The Next Door Recovery’s mortgage is one way we’ve been able to do that.

“God gave us this opportunity to say, ‘Hey, at The Next Door Recovery, they have a mortgage payment that is preventing them from being able to hire more staff to be able to serve more women,’” Steve said. “And God just said to us, ‘I want you to go there…and take care of that mortgage.’”

That freedom is allowing God to work through the center’s leadership to bring more staff on board and reach more women.

“I can’t think of anything better than that,” Steve said.

Neither can Susan Weathersby, Director of Development at The Next Door Recovery. Having lost her mother to an opioid addiction nearly 19 years ago, she knows firsthand the need to help each woman who comes to them find hope and healing in recovery.

“We truly meet her where she is…and what we want her to feel more than anything is love.”

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We continue to see God move in powerful ways every day. From new students finding meaningful community and growing deeper in their faith, to individuals being sent around the world to share the hope of Christ, to those who are hurting experiencing healing, restoration, and renewed purpose, God is faithfully working in and through us to draw people closer to Himself and change lives for eternity.

Here are some updates on how we are continuing to move together as one church, forward in our mission, and closer to those who need Jesus through our MOVE vision initiatives.

MOVE TOGETHER

Unleash the Next Generation

• 831 new students have connected with MSM and HSM since we began our MOVE journey, stepping into intentional relationships and life-changing experiences that are growing their faith.
• 267 people have already said yes to God’s invitation to invest in the next generation by serving as leaders. Their commitment makes new student connections possible and brings us more than halfway to our goal of 500 new leaders.

MOVE FORWARD

Send 4,000 on Short-Term Mission Trips

• 759 people have served across 62 short-term mission trips, reaching communities in 35 countries since we began our MOVE journey. More people are exploring and being sent on mission trips than ever before!

Highlight: Anthony’s first mission trip—to Glasgow, Scotland with missions partner 20schemes—left a lasting mark on his heart. He witnessed the Gospel shared through meals, community gardens, and cookouts—simple acts of love that humbled him deeply. Anthony returned home with an ignited passion for serving as Christ served, seeking the lost, one at a time, in his own community and wherever God leads.

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Changing Lives at Camp

• More than 8,000 people—including a record number of campers—are experiencing meaningful life-change at camp this Summer. Through MOVE, we equipped the additional leaders needed to create space for more campers than ever to encounter Jesus.

MOVE CLOSER

Free 200 Victims of Sex Trafficking

• We have assisted 112 survivors, with 76 taking a next step on the path to physical, emotional, and spiritual freedom.
• Three safe houses—with up to 16 beds—have opened in Kentucky since last November, each providing survivors with Christ-centered care.
• More than 500 people have attended awareness events across multiple campuses to learn how they can help liberate sex trafficking victims.

Help the Hurting

• Three new volunteer leaders joined our Elizabethtown and Nelson County campuses. They will serve as the primary point of contact for Care Ministry and shepherd the Care group facilitators at their campus.

Highlight: 105 Care group facilitators gathered June 6 for our first-ever Encounter Equip event. This time of equipping is essential to the health, encouragement, and effectiveness of our volunteers—and to our calling as a church that walks alongside those seeking support and recovery as they journey toward healing.

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For nearly four decades, God has used Southeast Camps to change lives, shape generations, and create spaces where students truly belong.

In 1988, our church made a bold decision to invest in the next generation. And almost 40 years later, we’re still witnessing the impact of that “yes” in ways no one could have imagined.

What started as a single step of faith has become a lasting legacy of life change—year after year, generation after generation.

Because our church kept showing up with generosity, prayers, and faithfulness, thousands of students, families, and leaders have encountered Jesus in powerful and personal ways.

And now we believe God is inviting us to keep moving forward.

From elementary students to high schoolers, from children impacted by foster care and adoption to individuals with developmental disabilities, every camp is more than just an event on the calendar. Each is an opportunity for someone to experience the love of Jesus, find community, and discover purpose—maybe for the very first time.

We want to keep creating spaces where every student and every leader can encounter God in a real and life-changing way. That kind of impact only happens because people continue to invest—through serving, through prayer, and through generosity.

This Summer, we’re expecting more than 8,000 people at camp, with over 1,600 leaders committed to walking alongside students. Because of your investment in the next generation, more students than ever before will have the opportunity to experience life change at camp.

More stories. More healing. More freedom. More moments of surrender. More lives changed by Jesus.

As camp season begins, we know God is going to move—and we want to invite the full force of our church to pray with us and to pray for us.

Text Pray4Camp to 733733 to receive prayer prompts throughout the Summer.

God is still writing stories in this generation. Thank you for believing in us and investing in what He is doing. Let’s keep moving forward together.

God continues to move in and through His people here at Southeast! From volunteers faithfully investing in children each week—helping them discover God's story and their place in it, to more than 4,900 people celebrating new life in Jesus over the past year, to expanding opportunities for our Shine friends, we are partnering with God in remarkable ways!

Here are some updates on how we are continuing to move together as one church, forward in our mission, and closer to those who need Jesus through our MOVE vision initiatives.

MOVE TOGETHER

Equip Children and Families

• 86% of Southeast Kids volunteers who began serving at the start of the ministry year last August continue to faithfully serve—up from 72% the previous year! Their week-in, week-out commitment reflects hearts devoted to helping children birth-5th grade discover God’s story and their place in it.

MOVE FORWARD

See 10,000 Changed Lives

• 4,978 people across all our campuses have boldly declared their faith in Jesus through baptism since we began our MOVE journey just one year ago. That’s 4,978 stories redeemed, 4,978 futures forever changed, and 4,978 lives transformed by the power and grace of Jesus!
• With 126 people attending our first-ever Next Steps Beyond Baptism Workshops, we’re removing barriers and walking alongside new believers as they step fully into their new life in Jesus!

MOVE CLOSER

Equip 150 New Families to Foster or Adopt

• This Spring, we launched Equip Nights—a program providing connection and training for both new and existing families—as we press toward our goal of supporting 150 new Southeast families in becoming foster or adoptive families.

Help the Hurting

• With the support of 531 dedicated volunteers, Care Ministry has added 44 new groups since MOVE began, increasing the total number of support and recovery groups to 117. Through these groups, we are now walking alongside 1,384 people every month.
• 29 new volunteers were recently added as Care group facilitators, helping us move closer to our goal of 75 new support and recovery groups in three years.

Support Recovery Centers

• In April alone, 95 people were baptized across 21 facilities, bringing our year-to-date total to 233 as we pursue our prayer of seeing 5,000 lives transformed through the waters of baptism in our recovery ministry.

Highlight: Allison connected with us through the recovery maternity center we partner with. She has been sober for nearly two years, and today she serves on staff there. She remains an active part of the weekly SE Recovery worship service. And her son? Practically raised within those walls, he has been taking it all in. He now stands before the television with his hands raised in worship, mirroring the faith he has seen lived out all around him. Praise Jesus!

Expand Shine

• The Elizabethtown Campus unveiled a newly renovated kids space—with an updated adult space to follow by fall—as we continue expanding our Shine Disabilities Ministry offerings across additional campuses.

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In Matthew 28, Jesus calls us to go and make disciples of all nations. At the core, short-term mission trips are about obedience. They are a tangible way to be unleashed, to move forward and proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the earth. God doesn’t need us, yet He chooses to invite us in. We get to be part of His story. And as much as these trips impact others, they deeply transform us.

Short-term missions pull us out of our comfort zones, challenging our assumptions, stretching our faith, and teaching us to rely on God in new ways. What starts as a trip often becomes a shift, where faith becomes more real, more personal, more lived.

And we don’t do it alone. Mission trips bring people together in a powerful way—different backgrounds, different stories, but one shared purpose. They are a reminder that our faith is bigger than any one place or any one community.

Our goal is to unleash 4,000 people by 2030 on a short-term trip that will have long-term impact locally and globally. As of today, more than 600 people have been unleashed to share the hope of Christ all over the world. This year alone, we’ve sent teams to Appalachia, East Tennessee, Romania, Greece, El Salvador, the Middle East, India, Uganda, Poland, and Kenya.

Ultimately, these trips help us live as witnesses of Christ, not just where we go, but when we return. That’s because a short-term mission trip isn’t a finish line, it’s the beginning. It awakens us to who God is and challenges us to live differently—more intentionally, more boldly, and more fully.

And over time, something else begins to grow in you—a heart for the nations. You start to see the world the way God does, not divided by borders or cultures, but united in His love for every people, every place, and every tongue. You begin to care deeply about what He cares about, pray for people you’ve never met, stay connected to places you’ve seen God move, and carry that global Kingdom perspective into your everyday life.

That’s why short-term mission trips matter. Not because of what we do, but because of what God does in us and through us, shaping our hearts for His people all over the world.

To be unleashed on a short-term trip, text TRIPS to 733733.
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God is moving in powerful ways across Southeast! More than 420 new people said "yes" to the promise of a changed life by declaring their faith in Jesus through baptism during Easter weekend, 6,183 people have already signed up for a Southeast Camp, and the La Grange Campus recently hosted its very first Shine Disabilities Ministry event.

Here are some updates on how we are continuing to move together as one church, forward in our mission, and closer to those who need Jesus through our MOVE vision initiatives.

MOVE TOGETHER

Build and Deepen Community

• 85 people baptized in 2026 have already taken a next step in their spiritual walk by joining a group for the first time.

MOVE FORWARD

See 10,000 Changed Lives

• Easter Baptisms
  o   422 new believers  
  o   82 Southeast Kids (ages 7-11)
  o   117 Southeast Students (ages 12-18)
  o   169 Next Gen (ages 19-29)

Changing Lives at Camp

• 6,183 people have registered for a Southeast Camp, including 1,232 of the 2,254 middle school students we anticipate taking to camp. That puts overall registration at 77%!

Send 4,000 on Short-Term Mission Trips

Highlight: 2026 CrossRoads – Eastern TN Disaster Recovery‍

A member from the Crestwood Campus reflected on her first extended mission trip, a powerful week of serving and witnessing God at work through both volunteers and the Mountain City community. What began as a desire to be the hands and feet of Jesus quickly became an opportunity to see that lived out all around her. She described the team as incredible, the community as strong and resilient, and the experience as unforgettable—and she’s already hoping to go back!

MOVE CLOSER

Equip 150 New Families to Foster and Adopt

• 2 new families have completed the licensing process and are now ready to welcome children into their homes, bringing the total number of equipped families to 9 out of our goal of 150 in five years.

Support Recovery Centers

• Support and Recovery had 49 baptisms in March, bringing their total to 116 so far in 2026.

Expand Shine

Highlight: The La Grange Campus hosted its very first Shine Disabilities Ministry event on the last Sunday in March—a special night bringing together 20 teens and adults with developmental disabilities. The evening was filled with meaningful moments: a teen inviting a friend to church for the first time, engaging conversations about the crucifixion, heartfelt worship, and more. It was a powerful glimpse of community, faith, and lives being impacted within our Shine community. We’re excited for all that’s to come as the Shine Ministry continues to grow at La Grange.

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From nearly 100 Bibles being handed out during our RUCKUS outreach event for grades 3-5, to more than 1,000 people attending the launch of our newest church plant, to five years of life-change through SE Recovery, God continues to move powerfully in and through Southeast.

Here are some updates on how we are continuing to move together as one church, forward in our mission, and closer to those who need Jesus through our MOVE vision initiatives.

MOVE TOGETHER

Unleash the Next Generation

Highlight: Discipleship Weekend is already bearing incredible fruit in the lives of both students and leaders. A newer leader shared how the intentional time with a few of her girls helped deepen their connection and made their weekly small group conversations much richer. We also saw an 8th-grade student choose prayer as her spiritual discipline and begin praying at her lunch table at school. What started with just a few friends has now grown to nearly the entire table praying together for their school.

Moments like these help unleash students through serving and equipping them to be everyday missionaries at school and on their teams.

‍Equip Children and Families

• Nearly 100 Bibles were given out during RUCKUS—our annual 3rd-5th grade outreach event where kids truly “wreck the roof” and bring their friends. One of our MOVE goals is to make sure every kid has a Bible, and we love that we now have the resources to do that—even at an outreach event like RUCKUS.

MOVE FORWARD

Plant 40 New Churches

• More than 1,000 people attended the launch service of Sovereign City Church in Las Vegas on February 22! It was an exciting start and powerful reminder of the impact new churches can have on their communities. This marks church No. 9 toward our goal of 40 new churches in five years.

Changing Lives at Camp

• Southeast Kids at Shelby County surpassed their goal of 100% leader registration for camp, leading the way for Kids Camp with leaders who are committed to investing in their kids.

MOVE CLOSER

Free 200 Victims of Sex Trafficking

• AST added/referred 30 new volunteers to serve with mission partners following our Awareness Days, connecting more people to opportunities to make an impact.

Support Recovery Centers

• March 2026 marks the 5-year anniversary of SE Recovery! What an incredible milestone as we celebrate five years of life-change, healing, and community. We are grateful for every story, every step of freedom, and every person who has been part of the journey. We are looking forward to all that God will continue to do through SE Recovery in the years ahead!