The Nerd Culture Ministry Summit is a launching pad for helping the church realize the need to reach people that are already in their congregations, source them and empower them to minister in areas where they are gifted and talented. We believe that not every church needs to be focused on nerd culture, but understanding the need and engaging in it allows them to have access to nearly 3.6 Billion people to either engage in Gospel ministry or to reach them with the cause of Christ. November will mark our first summit, and our mission is to hold this summit every year in different areas of the country to make these concepts more accessible by bringing it to them. In October of 2022 we started with the idea that there were things we could do and people that we could reach together that we could not separately. This led to us meeting up at Exponential Orlando in March of 2023. We had already been talking about what something could look like and were moving toward another event that both fed and encouraged Christian streamers and content creators while also activating those people with a discipleship model where they pour into ministry leaders. The organization I run, Love Thy Nerd, and Lux Digital Church, led by Mark Lutz, are committed to seeing current and future church leaders engage in a culture they have all but written off.