Stronger Men Conference Returns to Grace City Church in June

And the keynote speaker is a 'Warrior Poet' and doomsday prepper John Loveall – unclear if monster trucks, tanks and fireworks will be included

A photo from the Stronger Men Conference in April at James River Assembly of God in Ozark, Missouri, where Mark Driscoll was one of the featured speakers. Photo via Andrew W. Sales on Facebook.

The Stronger Men Conference is set to return to Grace City Church this Father’s Day weekend and the featured speaker is “Warrior Poet,” doomsday prepper and gun enthusiast John Loveall.

Loveall runs a YouTube channel and online store that sells firearm training experiences and accessories, branded apparel, and body armor. His brand partners with “My Patriot Supply,” which sells bulk meals to help his customers navigate the rapidly-approaching end of civilization as we know it.

A special offer from “My Patriot Supply” to Loveall’s “Warrior Poets” for survival food packs so you can survive the breakdown of society, or the coming apocalypse, whichever comes first.

In addition to providing his customers with tactical firearm training and food buckets, Loveall also leads travel tours to Italy, Australia, and Switzerland. He’s also something of a writer, recently opining about a potential coming civil war, or “national divorce.” Recently the concept has been an object of fixation for those on the far right, like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

“Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from my state, is already boldly declaring the need for a national divorce,” he wrote.

In the piece, Loveall half-heartedly pushes back on the idea before using the piece as an opportunity to sell some merch. But not before he makes sure to include a quote from MTG about why a “national divorce” is a good idea.

“We need to separate red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrats' traitorous America last policies," she said, as quoted by Loveall.

On April 28, he wrote a piece about what he would do if a “mob of black-masked Antifalites,” “Stalin’s zombies” or social justice warriors surrounded him in a hypothetical Atlanta and he had to “escape the mob” of “Antifa fascists.”

A screenshot from one of Loveall’s YouTube videos.

He used the thought experiment to offer advice on what his readers should do if faced with the same situation.

“If the cyclone sucks you in, do what you can to get out. You're not there to submit someone with your jiujitsu or to win a fight,” he wrote. “Don't speak them or respond to them, and if it gets physical, go krav maga only until you find or create a gap to sprint. And I do mean sprint.”

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The Stronger Men Conference isn’t an idea that originated with Grace City Church, apparently. Last month, hundreds of men gathered at the James River Assembly of God in Ozark, Missouri to hear speakers like disgraced pastor Mark Driscoll and Senator Josh Hawley talk about what it means to be strong men and patriots, in what has become a characteristic mixing of politics and religion for the evangelical Christian fringe these days.

The featured speakers at the Stronger Men Conference in Ozark, Mo. last month. GCC Pastor Josh McPherson’s friend and mentor Mark Driscoll is in the lineup.

In past years, the Stronger Men Conference in Missouri has featured bull riding, professional boxing, BMX and motocross stunts, strongmen twirling flaming logs, men dressed up as comic book superheroes like Batman and Captain America and hall-of-fame athletes like Carson Wentz and Kirk Cousins, according to their website.

A strongman balances a flaming log using his chin and a stick and a previous Stronger Man Conference in Ozark, Mo.

The Stronger Men Conference in Wenatchee has been less of a spectacle, and much less star-studded so far. But what GCC’s version has lacked in big names, production quality and stage management they have made up for with ax throwing, competitive weight lifting, tactical shooting obstacle courses and more.

According to one local “Stronger Man,” they even raffled off a gun last year.

“At the Stronger Man Nation Conference there was an amazing hand-crafted gun given away as a prize and I wished I had won it!” Luke Boyce wrote.

It’s unclear if GCC will be giving away a gun at this year’s conference, but it is illegal in Washington state to gift a firearm (with some exceptions).

If you’d like to watch a recap of last year’s Stronger Men Conference at Grace City Church in Wenatchee, you can do that here.