LEADERSHIP
You will get access to and accountability from some of the strongest leaders in America to help you grow your personal and organizational leadership.

SELF-CARE
You will get guidance and support from experts who specialize in helping pastors thrive emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.

Robby Gallaty

Robby Gallaty is a pastor, author, and trainer who has decades of experience leading churches to make disciples that make disciples in small (<65 people), large (800), and megachurch (10,000+) contexts.

As a former drug addict in New Orleans with a dramatic conversion story and after years of being discipled by David Platt, Robby has a passion to see the church emphasize both evangelism and discipleship so that everyone can experience true life-change found in Jesus Christ. This burden led Robby and his wife, Kandi, to found Replicate Ministries, an organization that has equipped and trained thousands of churches and ministries to create a disciplemaking movement.

Over the course of his career, Robby has authored twenty-one books with topics including the history of discipleship throughout the ages of the Church, how Western Christians can learn to better follow an Eastern rabbi, how to create holistic and reproducible strategies for healthy church growth, a starter guide for creating text-driven sermons, and a personal account of his own history with addiction and recovery.

Recently, he has led his staff and congregation at Long Hollow in Hendersonville, Tennessee to deeply consider one of the most overlooked spiritual disciplines–rest–after a close personal encounter with burnout. This focus on rest, solitude, and prayer has prepared him and the staff as they began experiencing a modern-day spiritual revival in December 2020.With a heart for soul care and spiritual, emotional, and mental health, Robby’s Scripture-first approach to the pressing needs of the modern church will inspire anyone, whether they are a lay person or a pastor, to return to the roots of our faith: the Creator and His Word.

Vick Green

Vick is passionate about helping leaders and churches chart their course to unleashing their God-given potential. He inspires and equips leaders through communicating deep insights with profound simplicity and catalytic clarity.

Vick Green serves as the Adult Ministries Pastor at Long Hollow Baptist Church (10,000+ attendance) and the Director of Replicate Ministries. During 2020, despite the difficulties caused by COVID, Long Hollow has experienced significant growth in attendance, salvations, and launching new groups in states all across the country. Through Replicate, Vick has trained thousands of churches through their online courses and weekly coaches hundreds of leaders through their Network.

Before moving to Nashville, Vick served in Baton Rouge as a Next Steps Director for The Chapel where their Executive Team led the church through a season of revitalization after over a decade of decline. Through explosive growth in the groups and volunteer teams, The Chapel grew both in attendance and church engagement.

Vick has also led a college ministry of 400+ on the campus of Louisiana State University. During this time, he led a football ministry for the LSU football team, 80+ student group leaders, and oversaw an apprenticeship that launched church leaders to plant churches across the country and world. In addition to serving at LSU, he has led mission teams in four countries.

Whether you are a Senior Pastor, Ministry Director, or an ambitious, young leader, Vick can provide you with the catalytic clarity you need to unleash your God-given potential.

Vick lives in Nashville, TN with his wife Sophie, their two kids, Barrett and Lenna, and their duck dog, Roux. He loves reading a good leadership book, smoking meat on his Big Green Egg, and duck hunting with his friends at his family camp, Shiloh Farm.

Tim LaFleur

Before coming to Long Hollow, Tim was the Disciplemaking Pastor at Brainerd Baptist Church for four years. During his tenure at Brainerd, the discipleship ministry grew from 50 to 1200 in discipleship groups.

Tim currently serves as the Equipping Pastor at Long Hollow, working with Pastor Robby to shepherd the staff of Long Hollow, mentoring emerging leaders, and equipping those who feel God calling them to vocational ministry. Through Replicate, Tim is available to train local churches, speak at association and regional conferences, and facilitate staff coaching calls.

Russell Irwin

Russell Irwin is married to Darlene Irwin, has two children and loves spending time with their 8 grandchildren.  He and Darlene are originally from Knoxville, TN, and after completing a social work degree at the University of Tennessee, moved to Louisville, Kentucky to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he received his MDiv.  

Russell served churches in Knoxville, TN, Lawrenceburg, KY, Fredericksburg, VA, and Seymour, TN. Russell currently leads the staff at Long Hollow Baptist Church in their Pastoral Care and recovery initiative. He has been involved in leadership roles as a pastor, business leader, and in the non-profit world as Director of Operations for a work in Haiti with special needs children.

Collin Wood

Collin is uniquely called and gifted to help leaders and organizations maximize their God-given potential. He is the Executive Pastor at Long Hollow Church where he leads a team of 87 full-time staffers. Before serving as Executive Pastor, Collin served as Creative Arts Pastor, overseeing the weekend experience and creative teams.

Collin has been married for 22 years and has four children. He enjoys golf, Jordans, and learning.

TJ Joy

TJ serves as the Church Planting Pastor at Long Hollow Church. He oversees all of the church planting efforts within the Long Hollow Network, including both existing church plants as well as the church planters he is helping to train and send through Long Hollow. TJ’s unique calling in life is to mobilize missionaries for the sake of the gospel.

TJ has been married to his wife Malyssa since August, 2010 and they have 4 daughters, Madelyn, Emma, Sara, and Mila. He enjoys sports, traveling, and a good true crime documentary.

Jeff Borton

Jeff Borton is on staff at Long Hollow Church and a 20+ year veteran of student ministry.

He is passionate about developing leaders, discipling others, and seeing students live on mission for the Gospel. Jeff recently wrote the book “Your First 100 Days in Student Ministry and the 40 Years that Follow” and co-authored the book “Simple Student Ministry”.

Jeff is married to Jen and they have 3 boys. Together they enjoy different sports, hanging out on their farm and cheering on Wake Forest University.