Mercy Culture

What does the Bible actually say about women in ministry — and what does it look like when a church builds a culture around it? Heather Schott sits down with four women who pastor, preach, lead campuses, and raise families inside Mercy Culture — Pastors Jasmine Weiler, Dehavilland Ford, Maggie Wakefield, and Nikki Cody — for an honest, unfiltered conversation about biblical empowerment of women in the church. They cover:

Ordaining by calling — not gender or marital status
Breaking free from "stay in your lane" limitations
Being equipped to lead, not just placed as a trophy
Raising kids in the calling — not around it
How women lead men through spiritual authority, not competition
Navigating ministry with an unsaved or unsupportive husband
Real stories of breakthrough, prophetic dreams, miracles, and healing
Closing prayers to break the spirit of religion — and for the Deborahs, Esthers, and Marys to rise

This isn't a debate. It's a living display of what healthy, biblical empowerment of women looks like in practice.

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In this message, Lauren Caldwell explores the biblical meaning of dedication and what it truly means to give everything to God. Drawing from Romans 12:1, she unpacks how dedication is not just an emotion, it is an intentional direction, a daily decision to say "God, this belongs to you." She emphasizes that dedication leads to faithfulness, costs us something, and is always worth it because He is worthy.

Lauren Caldwell reminds believers that God is not inviting us to dedicate just our songs or prayers, but our whole lives, our bodies, hearts, habits, choices, and time. She also breaks off shame for anyone who feels they have never fully dedicated an area of their life to the Lord, reminding us that today is always the day to rededicate.

This message encourages believers to recognize that we are now the temple and that God desires to dwell in these earthen vessels everywhere we go.

The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.

At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community.

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In this special Mercy Culture service, we steward one of the prophetic words of 2026 of dedicating things to the Lord. We rededicate families, babies, marriages, and lives back to God, as well as ordain new Mercy Culture pastors and install Les and Nikki Cody as elders and celebrate what God is doing across all campuses.

Mercy Culture has released over 102 worship songs — none of them written in a recording studio. Landon Schott sits down with worship pastors Jasmine Weiler and Treigh Martinez to unpack how every song in their catalog was born out of actual encounters with God: visions at 4am, spontaneous moments in the room, prayers that became melodies. They share the origin stories behind songs like "Names of God," "Fear Go," and "Encounter Song" — and why they believe you can't lead people into something you've never been in yourself.

This week’s message, The Threshing Floor, centers on 2 Samuel 24 and the powerful truth that sacrifice unlocks mercy. Through the story of David purchasing Araunah’s threshing floor, we’re reminded that true worship costs something — and obedience moves Heaven. As we step into our annual Heart for Mercy offering, this sermon calls us to cheerful, sacrificial giving that reflects our love for God and fuels the vision of Mercy Culture’s ministries. The threshing floor is where costly sacrifice meets holy visitation — and where mercy triumphs over judgment.