We have been hosting our annual Flavor Fest Conference at our church in Tampa for over two decades. We have collectively trained over 5,000 urban church leaders and artists. Dozens of churches have been planted, hundreds of urban churches revitalized and we’ve help equip artists and get many connected. Lecrae’s first music festival to perform at was Flavor Fest which helped lead to his first record deal. Years later Lecrae discovered KB at Flavor Fest and signed him. Urban church leaders have had a challenging couple years with the pandemic. As we are now post pandemic we’ve found that most urban churches are not back to their previous attendance, engagement or finances. Leaders are exhausted and discouraged. They need encouragement, innovative new ideas, resources and fellowship in this season. Our urban church in Tampa has been thriving the past few years due to many new innovative things we’ve implemented with outreach, follow up, social media, entrepreneurship and more. We know many of these churches can’t afford to come to our conference in Tampa, so we felt a calling to take it to them. In 2023 we launched the first Flavor Fest Tour with a goal to train 1,000 urban church leaders. This includes going to four additional influential cities where we have existing partnerships: New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston. The summit includes two general sessions and two break out workshop sessions with six tracks: Church Innovation, Church Leadership, Urban Youth Ministry, Outreach, Entrepreneurship & Artists. It also includes a Hip-Hop Concert in the evening.