Billy Rainey serves as Director of College Ministry at Highland Park United Methodist Church, where he provides vision and leadership for a comprehensive ministry ecosystem spanning college, young adult, and congregational life. With experience across adult discipleship, campus ministry strategy, and organizational leadership, Billy is particularly focused on helping churches build sustainable pathways of formation rather than siloed age-based programs. His work emphasizes continuity, shared language, and intentional leadership development across ministry contexts. Billy holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and brings a systems-level perspective to ministry formation shaped by both theological training and hands-on pastoral leadership.

Drawing from his ministry experience, Billy explores how churches and campus ministries can collaborate across developmental stages—building bridges from children’s and youth ministries through campus and into young adulthood. This breakout invites leaders to reimagine ministry as a long-term journey of formation rather than a series of disconnected handoffs, offering practical strategies grounded in lived ministry experience.