Seneca – First Baptist Simpsonville

About
the Men's Conference

Life in a world like ours encourages compromise. Satan tempts us to give up the fight, give ground to sin, and give in to temptation. God has a different call for Christian men. God calls us to Stand Firm. In the Bible, God commands Christians 17 times to stand firm!

Stand firm. Hold the line. Don’t give an inch. How would your life be different if in all the places you were giving in, you decided to stand firm?

How would your life be different if you decided to stand firm in all the places you were giving in?

Join us for the 2025 Carolina Men’s Conference as we learn to Stand Firm!

Event Schedule

Friday, August 25

Check In: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6pm - 7pm
Session One: 7pm - 8:15pm
Break: 8:15pm - 8:30pm
Session Two: 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Saturday, August 26

Coffee and Doughnuts: 8:30am - 9am
Optional Church Break Out Time: 8:30am - 9am
Session Three: 9am - 10:15am
Break: 10:15am - 10:30am
Session Four: 10:30am -11:15am
Optional Church Break Out Time:
11:30am -12:30pm (You can choose to have a box lunch provided)

featured speakers

TONY WOLFE

Prior to serving SCBaptists as our Executive Director-Treasurer, Dr. Tony Wolfe was the Associate Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, where he served churches and church leaders since May 2017. Since 1999, he has served Southern Baptist churches in Texas and Louisiana as a denominational leader, interim pastor, pastor, worship leader, Christian educator, and pastoral counselor. Tony is passionate about strengthening churches, raising up church leaders, and mobilizing Christ’s people to reach their neighbors and the nations with the gospel. He is personally committed to biblical inerrancy, strategic evangelism, cooperative missions, expositional preaching, and team-based leadership.

Tony holds degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and Lamar University. He enjoys fishing, reading, writing, and a good LSU Tigers football game in his free time. Tony and Vanessa were married on April 14, 2001, and have two sons: Ethan, who is married to Grace and serving as a youth minister in Oklahoma, and Aaron, who is a student at North Greenville University.

Dr. Wolfe has served as the SCBaptist Executive Director-Treasurer since May 2023.

An Alabama native raised in a pastor’s home, D.J. Horton came to know Christ personally as an eight-year-old boy. His call to ministry became very clear during college. Growing spiritually but struggling with feelings of unworthiness to pastor people, D.J. began to really grasp the greatness of the grace of God. This revelation set his heart on fire to use his gifts of preaching and leadership to help others know and experience the amazing reality of God’s grace in Christ.

Dr. Horton is the Senior Pastor of Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, South Carolina. During his 20-year tenure of leading the church, Church at The Mill has been consistently recognized as one of the fastest-growing churches in North America. In addition to his pastorate, D.J. is a frequent speaker at FCA camps, NCAA and NFL chapels, and pastor’s conferences. An Alabama native, he earned a B.S. from Auburn University, where he was a member of the football team. He received an M.Div from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctorate degree in preaching from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He has been happily married for over 23 years to his wife, Laurel. They are proud parents to six children: Ty, Micah, Lily, Grey, Rhett, and Evy. When he is not preaching or pastoring, D.J. is a passionate outdoorsman who loves his time in the woods or the water with friends and family.

D.J. HORTON

CLINT PRESSLEY

CLINT PRESSLEY serves as Senior Pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Since 2010, he has led the church to exalt Christ, make disciples, and pass the torch of the gospel to the next generation.

A native of Charlotte, Clint joined Hickory Grove as a teenager before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College in South Carolina and a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisiana. He pastored two churches in Mississippi before returning to Hickory Grove in 1999 as Senior Associate Pastor of Preaching. In 2004, he was called as Senior Pastor of the historic Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. In 2010, he returned once again to Hickory Grove as Co-Pastor and was installed as Senior Pastor in 2011.

In June 2024, Clint was elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also served the Convention as Vice President of the SBC Pastor’s Conference in 2013, First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2014-2015, Trustee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2015, and member of the NC Baptist Board of Directors since 2023.

Clint is married to Connie, and they have two sons.

Dallas Wilson serves as a Teaching Pastor at Upstate Church, where he is passionate about helping others grow in their knowledge of God and love for His Word. He is joyfully married to Jenna, and together they are raising two wonderful daughters. Outside of ministry, he enjoys cheering for Georgia football, practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, reading, and taking his family to Disney World. Whether in the pulpit, at home, or at the gym, Dallas loves helping people meet Jesus and grow in Him.