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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENUINE MISSIONARY ENCOUNTER IS THE GREATEST INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL TASK FACING THE CHURCH. FACING THE CHURCH.

Lesslie Newbigin

Friends,

We started Missional Labs with a vision to tackle the big challenges facing the future of the Church as the world changes rapidly around us.

As a nonprofit venture organization, we approach ministries like startups. Our primary work is to support new ministries and movements on the frontiers of mission, equipping our fellows with theology, coaching, strategic support, connections, and funding. Our hope is that they grow into highimpact organizations that shape our spiritual landscape and advance the way of Jesus.

This work exists inside of a relational vision for a modern mission society, like the societies and orders of previous eras, committed to forming and sending leaders and connecting churches, ministries, and funders to galvanize resources toward the pressing needs of mission in our time.

Thanks for your support and joining us in the early days.

Tyler Prieb Founder

VISION OVERVIEW

We believe that faithful witness to the Gospel requires a renewed missional imagination. The Church of tomorrow needs courageous leaders, marked by spiritual renewal and cultural intelligence, ambitious vision, and innovative methods.

Our platform exists to equip pioneer leaders, nurture kingdom dreams, and accelerate missional ventures on the redemptive edge of Church and culture. We blend the best of a startup accelerator and a school of mission, anchored in a network of leaders, builders, thinkers, and funders. Our hope is for an era of Spirit-led movements that renew the Church and advance the Way of Jesus.

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MISSION

The future is cultivated by those who know the story they are living in, and know how to play a part in the Missio Dei. We seek to renew the missional imagination of the Church.

LEADERS

Breakthrough movements come from mature leaders with apostolic imagination, who partner with the Spirit and lead with humility and courage. We raise up pioneer leaders.

VENTURES

We don’t need more ideas - we need new tools, models, structures, ventures, organizations, and institutions for a new era. We launch and support new ventures.

ACCELERATOR

A global fellowship for growth-stage ventures on the forefront of mission, discipleship, and the Church.

We’re the startup accelerator for a new generation of ministries and movements. We support earlystage projects (nonprofit and for-profit) working on new approaches to mission, discipleship, leadership, and the Church.

Our nine month program selects a cohort of founders, and gathers for three curated events in New York City, London, and San Francisco with intimate pitch days in each city, and virtual trainings and mentoring throughout.

APPLICATIONS FOR COHORT 4 OPEN NOW

Our fellows develop theological vision, leadership depth, and entrepreneurial capacity, and get connected to our network of mentors, funders, and leaders from around the global Church. We’re the only leadership program that deeply understands ministry leadership and social entrepreneurship.

APPLY AT: MISSIONALLABS.CO/ACCELERATOR

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 15

10Ten Project

A one year experience of adventure and renewal with other Christian leaders.

VISION

As Pastors and leaders, we get it. We believe that Christian business leaders and pastors deserve the right to be fully alive and yet many are struggling under the weight of unrealistic expectations, a lack of leadership training and isolation. This is why we started the 10Ten Project.

FOUNDER BIO

Tyler Reagin is the founder and CEO of The Life-Giving Company (lifegiving.co). He is the author of The Life-Giving Leader and Leading Things You Didn’t Start. He is the co-founder of the 10TEN Project working to keep pastors healthy and in the the game. He was the President of Catalyst and spent over a decade serving with North Point Ministries. He is currently working on his Ph.D. ain Organizational Leadership and received his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He serves as a leadership coach for teams and organizations.

Tyler Reagin Atlanta, GA

BIG OPPORTUNITY

In 2022, Barna surveyed pastors, and over 40% confessed to reaching crisis levels of burnout. At 10TEN Project, we are creating safe spaces for leaders to say ALL of the things they need to say to help prevent burnout or moral failure.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We exist to serve Christian Pastors and Business Leaders. Through our year process, we have created groups for these leaders to have connection, coaching and care.

PROGRAM MODEL

We create connection, coaching, and care for our leaders by a year of adventure, monthly leadership coaching, and intensive group counseling experience.

IMPACT

In our first three years, we have served 70 pastors and leaders who represent over 1.3M believers. Our goal is to help those believers and the leaders avoid the collateral damage from a moral failure in the Church.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We have been developing our model and proof of concept for the past three years. Our plan has been to create an in-depth, well-researched fundraising pitch to use in 1x1 meetings, partnerships, and donor gatherings.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Capital to expand our offerings, pay our staff and have cashflow to build out future excursions and spaces for more leaders.

Bible.AI

Revolutionizing Discipleship through AI Technology

VISION

Bible.Ai is an innovative platform that leverages AI technology to provide a comprehensive discipleship experience for individuals at all stages of their faith journey. It aims to revolutionize evangelism and discipleship by offering a judgment-free, accessible, and personalized way to engage with, study, and understand the Bible. The goal of this is to ultimately lead people to deepening one's devotion to Christ.

Leio McLaren

Gold Coast, Australia

FOUNDER BIO

Leio is an Australian based designer, developer, business owner and creative force. With a passion for understanding how things work, he uses his knowledge to create experiences and processes that enrich the lives of others. With a wealth of experience working alongside large corporations from around the world, he understands the importance of fostering collaboration and synergy. Leio has a proven track record developing cutting edge Christian technology at the intersection of innovation and faith. Driven by his unwavering commitment to growth and transformation, he continues to push the boundaries of what is possible.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

The utilization of AI technology to transform the way evangelism and discipleship are approached on a global scale. By providing a comprehensive platform that caters to diverse audiences, Bible.Ai offers a unique and personalized experience that combines knowledge, community and accessibility in a way that has not been fully realized before.

TARGET AUDIENCE

To serve individuals of all backgrounds who are seeking to deepen their faith in Christ. Through the power of AI-driven tools and resources, Bible.Ai helps them by providing a judgment-free, accessible, and personalized discipleship experience, empowering them to engage with the Bible, ask questions, and find answers.

IMPACT

The long-term impact of Bible.Ai thriving would be millions of people around the world being effectively discipled, making significant strides in their devotion to Christ and experiencing a global transformation through the power of the Gospel.

PROGRAM MODEL

YEAR FOUNDED

The core offering of Bible.Ai is a comprehensive platform that utilizes AI technology to provide a range of tools and resources for Bible study, exploration and discipleship.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

Seeking investments from VC's and strategic partnerships, exploring revenue streams (ie. subscription models and premium content offerings). The key goals are to secure sufficient funding to support the development and growth of Bible.Ai, ensuring sustainable scalability while aligning with the mission of reaching and serving a global audience.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

The largest organizational needs in the next 12 months are building connections in the investment space, finding skilled AI and software development talent to enhance and expand the capabilities of Bible.Ai, as well as strategic partnerships to increase visibility, user acquisition, and user engagement on the platform.

Christians for Impact

We help Christians discern meaningful, impactful careers.

VISION

We’re a nonprofit career advisory that helps Christians discern a calling to a career with maximum impact. We do this through 1-on-1 mentorship, career advice, a podcast, and our annual conference.

JD Bauman

Washington D.C.

FOUNDER BIO

JD's project help Christians to donate more effectively and pursue careers with maximum kingdom impact. Alongside running Christians for Impact, he organizes the Christian subcommunity of the Effective Altruism movement.

JD is grateful for his mentors, his wife Madi and his dog, Chloe. He lives in a suburb of Washington D.C. and worships at Union City Church.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

Young Christians feel called to pursue careers that help renew our fallen world, careers tackling global problems such as extreme poverty, climate change, and the unreached. But there exist little to no faith-based resources showing them how to tackle these problems in strategic and effective ways.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Ambitious, analytical, high-impact-potential Christians ages 18-25, especially in the US and UK, and at top universities. We help them to discern a plan for a meaningful, impactful career, from the basis of their faith in Jesus.

IMPACT

We imagine thousands of talented and ambitious Christians who faithfully follow Jesus and spread the Gospel in word and deed, who otherwise might have lost their faith or settled for a less impactful career. Our goal is 200 impact mentees in 2024.

PROGRAM MODEL

Our core offering is our 1-on-1 impact mentorship program, drawing on 70+ mentors, supported by our research, podcast, and prayer.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

1. Introductions to Christian influencers who are interested in partnering with us, and 2. Funding to bring our marketer full-time ($31,500). YEAR FOUNDED

We are beginning to apply for grants from a range of Christian and secular foundations and pursue funding from aligned-supporters of our work.

Toby Kurth

San Francisco, CA

FOUNDER BIO

Mapping the Future

Data and mapping platform to help denominations and church planting organizations plant smarter.

VISION

Mapping the Future is a real-time, open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) research platform for church planters, church planting organizations, and other researchers.

Toby's family has been in California for four generations and he was raised mostly in San Diego and Monterey. He and his wife Rebekah were married in San Diego in 1999 and have three active and fun boys aged 15, 10, and 7. Toby earned his BS from UC Davis and after spending a number of years in the marketplace, he went back to school to pursue a masters at Westminster Seminary in California and a PhD at Stony Brook University in New York. While living in Brooklyn, God redirected Toby and Rebekah towards full-time ministry, and they came home to California in 2009 to plant a church in San Francisco.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

We need to increase our rate of church planting across the country, but we need to do it smarter with higher rates of church viability and community impact. Church planting is not only one of the greatest hopes for reaching people that do not know Jesus, it is also costly and requires a tremendous amount of sacrifice. For the sake of all involved, we need to do better.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This exists to serve church planters and church planting organizations.

PROGRAM MODEL

We are creating a real-time, open-source national Geographic Information System (GIS) research platform for church planters, church planting organizations, and other researchers.

IMPACT

The user interface will be accessible to a broad diversity of end-users. We will use the collective impact model to identify key variables related to church plant viability and community impact.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We have received a grant from a foundation, and my time on the project is paid for by Transforming the Bay with Christ, a collaborative network in the Bay Area.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Getting a working model up and testing it. We will then need to roll it out nationally and make a lot of decisions about the future.

Dan Fang and Skye Herrick Nairobi, Kenya

FOUNDER BIO

Dan Fang is a visionary creative, passionate about liberating leaders to live into the fullness of their Kingdom calling. He worked with the human-centered design firm, IDEO.org, and co-led a design studio in Nairobi, Bluesky Innovations. while personally training 800+ young leaders through the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Center. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a double major in International Relations and Neuroscience.

Oaks + Crown Leadership

Transforming young leaders in East Africa.

VISION

Oaks + Crown aims to raise up local leaders in Kenya and Uganda who understand their identities in Christ, are connected into joyful and vulnerable community, and are equipped with the leadership skills they need to bring about redemptive work in all areas of society. Our mission is to build a community of leaders who bring Kingdom transformation to East Africa.

Skye Herrick is passionate about helping mobilize young people to be on mission with God. Her experience includes serving with the Peace Corps as a Sustainable Agricultural Systems volunteer in northern Benin and working with the Young African Leaders Initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, where she supported a network of 2,000+ program alumni across 14 countries. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Development Economics. dan.fang3@gmail.com

FOUNDER BIO

BIG OPPORTUNITY

The future of the global church will be young and African (Pew estimates 1.1 Billion Christians living in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050). Africa doesn’t need charity, it needs good leadership, and local leaders, who deeply love and understand their communities, are massively overlooked and under-resourced. We believe the time is now to invest in this next generation of leaders.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We provide young leaders ages 22 - 35 working across sectors in Kenya and Uganda with foundational training in leadership skills and holistic discipleship, and mobilize them to partner with God to bring Kingdom transformation through their work.

IMPACT

In three years, we’ve graduated 8 cohorts and 140+ leaders. By 2030, we hope to be in 5 countries, with 1,000+ leaders formed in the way of Jesus and unafraid to dream differently about the future, directly impacting the millions more that they represent.

PROGRAM MODEL

A 3-month Fellowship that equips a small cohort of 10-15 with a theology of mission, soul care, and practical skillsbuilding. This onboards our Fellows into a loving leadership community, where we accelerate their ventures, provide further mentorship, and pursue collective impact.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We have launched a $1M capital campaign for 2024, which will build the necessary infrastructure to enable our 2030 vision.

We are looking for both individual donors and grant opportunities, and eventually will be building out revenue generation streams locally in East Africa for long-term sustainability.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Increasing the size of our team to keep up with demand, a physical center to convene our community and host programs, new Board members to provide strategic and financial oversight, and introductions to values-aligned funders.

Isaac Gay

San Diego, CA

FOUNDER BIO

Parallel Society

Beauty is the apologetic, artists are the evangelists.

VISION

Parallel Society is a discipleship, production and resourcing ministry with a vision of equipping the church in order to empower artists so as to engage the world through creativity and artistry for the furthering of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Isaac Gay is a multifaceted artist and visionary working in the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and contemporary thought. As a worship leader, thinker, and writer, Isaac’s heart is one of an iconoclast, while remaining grounded in the enduring principles of orthodox Christianity.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

We believe that evangelism in the 21st century should be pursued from the angle of beauty. We aim to broaden the church's paradigm of artists and their contribution to the kingdom, root creatives in a theologically informed vision for their work and create spaces for this redemptive art to be seen on a global stage.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The Church. By discipling a nuanced demographic in their congregation and community. The Artists. By guiding and rooting them in a local community.The World. By creating cultural artifacts that transcends stereotypes and caricatures and instead embody the beauty of the gospel and christian life.

IMPACT

Long term, we imagine building a media conglomerate that produces, trains and raises up artists that impact the culture for the furthering of the Kingdom.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Structure of profitable business plan and connections into denominations and church networks. YEAR

PROGRAM MODEL

The foundation of our ministry is a discipleship course and a cohort for replicating/fostering creative communities.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

Fundraising for operational/personnel costs for 1st year, by leveraging relational financial partners, while building a sustainable business strategy through producing creative goods.

Laura Leigh Turner

New York City, NY

FOUNDER BIO

Rise Collective

Intentionally discipling early-career women who are hungry to pursue Jesus, seeking to study God’s Word, and desire to impact the Kingdom with their gifts and their work.

VISION

Rise Collective is a women’s ministry and non-profit organization that exists to raise up early-career women through discipleship, that they would be equipped to live full lives in the Spirit. We do this through monthly gatherings, Bible study resources, and a yearly immersive discipleship program for a small group of women in NYC.

Laura Leigh Turner is a native Arkansan making her home in New York City where she works in the performing arts industry and is the founder and CEO of Rise Collective. Rise Collective exists to multiply disciples of Jesus who are united in Christ, rooted in God’s Word and rising up for the glory of God. Laura Leigh also hosts “Living in the Light”, a podcast where she invites artists to share their stories of how Jesus has taken them from the dark and into his powerful light. She is an artist and a storyteller, and considers pursuing the presence of God to be the greatest delight of her life.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

There are thousands of early-career women moving to New York City every year who desire to grow in their walk with Christ, but lack discipleship and are often misguided by the influence of the surrounding culture. Rise Collective seeks to step into that gap and transform young women into compelling disciples of Jesus.

YEAR FOUNDED

TARGET AUDIENCE

We find that women are isolated, searching for Truth, and unsure of what it means to live a life surrendered to Jesus. Rise Collective exists to equip young women in their early twenties who are embarking on the start of their adult life and seeking community and application of faith in Christ to their everyday life.

IMPACT

We hope for the multiplication of fruitful disciples of Jesus who are living activated in the Spirit and working with God as he brings the Kingdom to earth in their industries and workplaces.

PROGRAM MODEL

Rise Collective is focused on discipleship through gatherings, Bible study resources, and, in the future, a NYC based residential discipleship program.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

Rise Collective fundraises primarily through personal networks, relationship building and targeted fundraising events.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Support from those with experience with the development of the Rise Collective discipleship program, as well as specific fundraising and relationship building in our progress towards ownership of a discipleship townhome in NYC.

Darren Allarde and Amar Patel

San Jose, CA

FOUNDER BIO

Darren enjoys sharing the things he's working on. He finds a lot of meaning and purpose co-laboring with the Salt + Light team. He loves spending time with his family and watching his three boys turn into athletes.

Salt + Light

Salt + Light is a gamified experience for small groups.

VISION

We are seasoned technologists and group leaders who have seen people struggle with loneliness and depression after job loss, trauma, divorce, and more. Our team is building the tool we wish we always had to walk people through those moments.

FOUNDER BIO

Amar loves God, books, people, and business. His background is in building mobile apps in the faith tech space and community building.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

There is a loneliness epidemic we want to bring small groups to the masses.

Our app cultivates a safe space for people to explore their life struggles, play intentional games, and dive deeper in person.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We serve small group leaders and churchgoers looking to disciple networks that the local church may not be able to reach.

IMPACT

We believe Salt + Light can foster thousands of deeply connected communities centered around Jesus and fanning into the flame the power of the local church across the globe.

PROGRAM MODEL

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

We have the talent, network, and product. We’ll be investing in game development and group infrastructure. YEAR

Come alongside the local church to supercharge small groups for depth and life change using games, intentional content, and gathering.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We are fundraising $1M. We plan to make money through annual subscription tiers, premium groups, and in-app purchases for mini-games for your group to play.

Streams Studio

Closing the backdoor of the Church.

VISION

By sharing authentic stories of faith, communicated by world-class speakers and thinkers, Streams Studio is reigniting the hearts of at-risk believers on their toughest days.

FOUNDER BIO

Originally from Scotland, David has been spent 15 years in London - initially media consulting for large blue chip companies such as Accenture, Barclays & Sky TV before setting up FINLAY eyewear in 2012. FINLAY has become a prominent independent eyewear brand, with two flagship stores in London and a roster of clients that includes Kate Middleton, Adele, Rihanna, and Kylie Jenner.

David Lochhead Hackney, London

BIG OPPORTUNITY

While there are resources for evangelism and discipleship, we occupy the “space between” — reaching the believer who is coasting, drifting or suffering, and ultimately at risk of abandoning their faith altogether. By creating accessible videos that thoughtfully highlight Jesus in the social media space, we can help distracted and distant believers find a way back.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We exist to serve those in their 20s and 30s who are stagnant and uninspired in their faith, and find themselves on social media more than on spiritual pursuits.

PROGRAM MODEL

YEAR FOUNDED

We shoot authentic video content with leading Christian communicators and share it on social platforms in a compelling, concise way that ensures it can retain attention and easily be shared to wider audiences.

IMPACT

Currently we have 130,000 people following across all our platforms, with a total of 17.6 million views and tens of thousands of comments that each represent moments of encounter. Every view is an opportunity for someone to turn their attention back to Jesus.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We are moving from relying on large bespoke gifts to a more predictable and sustainable model of developing a group of monthly donors of all sizes.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS

Awareness + Funding.

The Way

The Way is a Digital Youth Ministry that aims to share the gospel with every teenager.

VISION

The Way is a collective of filmmakers that specialize in reaching teenagers with the gospel and stirring hunger for Jesus.

Michael Yelland-Brown London, UK

FOUNDER BIO

Michael is the Director of The Way. He has a BA Honors in Theology and Youth Ministry and is also an experienced Director and Cinematographer. His passion is to share Jesus with teenagers in creative ways; through social media platforms and film.

BIG OPPORTUNITY

We want to reach teenagers all around the world who are looking for answers to life’s biggest questions. So, we’ve created a unique collective of filmmakers and young Christians who are unashamed about sharing their faith online in creative and engaging ways.

TARGET AUDIENCE

We exist to help teenagers to begin and grow a relationship with Jesus.

PROGRAM MODEL

IMPACT

Millions of teenagers come to know Jesus and grow a relationship with Him.

BIGGEST ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS Funding and Charity Partnerships.

We create films that explore who Jesus is and teenagers watch them online.

FUNDRAISING PLAN

We want to raise a total of £1.5 million for the next 2 years of production. We want to partner with charities, businesses, and individuals that share our passion. YEAR FOUNDED

SAN FRANCISCO MENTORS

In each city, we invite trusted, high-capacity leaders from across Church, Ministry, and Business to give 1:1 coaching and guidance to our fellows.

Aaron Ginn

CEO & Co-founder, Hydra Host

Ben Pilgreen

Lead Pastor, Epic Church SF

Shauna Pilgreen

Strategic City Director, Alpha USA

Co-leader, Epic Church

Aaron Ginn is a prominent Silicon Valley technologist and public intellectual. He is co-founder of the Foundation for American Innovation, Fabius Labs, and Hydra Host, the leading GPU bare metal marketplace. His platform manages over $200M worth of GPUs with clients running GPU clusters worldwide. Ginn led growth product management and technology at several unicorn tech companies, including Everlane and StumbleUpon. His work on launching and popularizing the “growth hacking movement” and tech product management is featured in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, NPR, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including being listed as Forbes 30 and 30.

Ben Pilgreen is the founder and lead pastor of Epic Church in San Francisco, CA. Ben loves coaching leaders, whether in church or in business. Ben is the host of the ‘Bring It Out’ podcast. Ben serves as the Bay Area Regional Leader for the Strategic Launch Network. Ben and his wife, Shauna, have four wonderful children and make their home in San Francisco. You can read more at benpilgreen.com. Ben’s first book, Bring It Out, releases on August 27, 2024.

Shauna Pilgreen, along with her husband, Ben, coleads Epic Church, a multiethnic congregation in the heart of San Francisco. She serves on the teaching team at Epic and as Strategic City Director for Alpha USA. She is the author of Love Where You Live and Translating Jesus. She is the mom of four.

Dave Lomas

Lead Pastor, Reality San Francisco

Dave serves as Lead Pastor of Reality San Francisco. He’s been married for 11 years to my first love from high school. He dabbles in design (of the interior persuasion) and after almost 10 years, he is still learning how to surf! He lives in the city he loves, and the place him and his wife feel they were born to live. He authored his first book: “The Truest Thing About You; Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters” in 2014. Dave’s other focus is to help Reality serve the broader body of Christ.

Shaila Visser

SVP, Alpha International

National Director, Alpha Canada

Shaila Visser is the Global Senior Vice-President for Alpha International and the National Director of Alpha Canada. Shaila is the Executive Producer of both The Alpha Youth Film Series (2017) and The Alpha Film Series (2016) which has been viewed on Alpha’s around the world by over 7 million people. She currently sits on the Board of the Damascus Road Foundation. Shaila has a heart for people coming to know Jesus and is passionate about empowering the next generation of leaders. She is a gifted communicator who is known for her strategic leadership as well as her ability to bring people together. Shaila lives in Vancouver BC with her husband, Ryan Visser.

Grant Demeter

Venture Capital Investor, Alumni Ventures

Grant is an NYC-based Venture Capital Investor, a believer, and a nice guy. He’s passionate about the growth of ‘Faithtech’ ventures and has done some writing and thinking on the topic. His professional journey has taken him all over the place: a founding member of a startup, a consultant, a product manager, a Harvard MBA, and now a venture investor. He’s happy to chat about anything and everything as folks seek to bridge the world of business and faith.

Nancy Ortberg

CEO, Transforming the Bay with Christ

Peter Court

Founder & Ceo, Tether

Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she lead Network, a ministry that helps people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church, and Axis, a weekly gathering for the eighteen- to twenty-something generation. She was a founding partner of Teamworx2, a business and leadership consulting firm that provides fast-paced, practical, and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands. She is currently serving as the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ. She and her husband, John, live in the Bay Area and have three grown children.

Peter Court is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tether, the platform for modern discipleship. Tether helps faith-based creators, authors, and organizations create and deliver beautiful, interactive discipleship content.

Previously, Peter served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Praxis Venture Lab. Prior to joining Praxis, Peter was on the senior leadership team at Whiteboard, a creative agency for leading redemptive brands.

Peter has spent his career helping early-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies build and execute their digital product strategy. He loves taking ideas from concept to scale and working on purpose-driven products.

Chad Causey

Chief Strategy Officer, OneHope

Matt is a tech founder and product leader with multiple exits in the spaces of video advertising, aerospace, and cybersecurity. Matt is now focused on helping other founders navigate the challenges of early stage startups.

Dr. Chad Causey serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at OneHope, an international ministry equipping church movements with innovative programs to engage the rising generation with God’s Word in dynamic and relevant ways. He provides strategic direction for ministry operations in 150 countries.

In 2019, he began to serve Southeastern University, leading the development of two new graduate degrees in Global Ministry Design and International Family Ministry. In 2021, he accepted the Chair of the Bob and Hazel Hoskins School of Mission. Most importantly, Dr. Causey is the father to 4 wonderful children: Abigail, Charles, Katie, and Caleb, with his wife Jeannine, based outside Atlanta, Georgia.

Matt Koskela Tech Founder, Investor

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ABOUT US

OUR PLATFORM

We're building an equipping platform for missional innovation, supporting the leaders, ideas, and ventures shaping the future of discipleship and mission around the world.

OUR IMPACT FOCUS AREAS

Evangelism | Advancing the Gospel

We support projects working on meaningful approaches to evangelism and apologetics in modern culture.

Discipleship | Forming Followers of Jesus

We're interested in the encounters that will shape our "heart, mind, soul, and strength" in the Way of Jesus in the 21st century.

Engagement | A Compelling Public Witness

We believe the Church should be a prophetic witness in the public square, marked by compassion, justice, creativity, and generosity.

Leadership | Equipping Christlike Leaders

We support new projects working to shape the future of Christian leadership formation, across theology, vocational ministry, and congregational laity.

Planting | Renewing the Congregation

We hope to see a radical increase in church planting innovation, across contexts, denominations, and styles, along with projects that equip and strengthen the ongoing life of the local church.

OUR PROGRAM MODEL

VENTURES

We support pioneer leaders starting new ministries and movements in the early stages, through our accelerator and pre-accelerator programs.

ECOSYSTEM

RESOURCES

We convene leaders, ministries, networks, and funders together to support the projects shaping the front edge of discipleship and mission.

We equip churches and leaders for creative mission at the intersection of theology, culture, and vocation, with our content and courses.

Tyler Prieb

Founder & Executive Director

NYC

Tyler is the Founder of Missional Labs. He was previously Chief of Staff at Church of the City NY in Manhattan, and has worked globally for multiple leading organizations and networks across church planting, pastoral training, leadership, entrepreneurship, and global mission. He was named a young leader for the Lausanne movement in 2016. He’s pursuing a Doctor of Missiology (in progress), and has an MA in Theology and BA in Economics and Humanities. He loves coffee, reading, and travel, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife Melany and daughter Penelope.

Stephen Mulder

Director of Partnerships

Vancouver

Stephen is a founding partner at Missional Labs. He previously served as the executive director at Bridgetown Church, the Associate National Director at Alpha Canada, and gave leadership to a churchplant in downtown Vancouver. He holds a Master of Theology from Regent College, worked in Dubai in corporate consulting, and originally grew up in South Africa. He is passionate about leadership, the local church, and entrepreneurship.

He lives in Vancouver with his wife Amy and two daughters.

Dr. Frog Orr-Ewing

Senior Theology Advisor

London

Rev Canon Dr Frog (Francis) OrrEwing is a poet, conservationist and priest. He was ordained in Oxford Cathedral and served his curacy at St Aldate’s Oxford, and was Vicar of All Saints Peckham, where the church experienced exponential growth. Frog has many years of training clergy in theology at St Paul’s Theological Centre, Wycliffe Hall, and The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is a Fellow in Mission at Winchester University, is Canon Theologian at Winchester Cathedral, and holds a PTO in the Oxford Diocese. He holds undergraduate and masters in Theology from the University of Oxford, and a Doctorate from Kings College, London.

Christina Van Essen

Director of Events & Community Engagement

NYC

Christina Van Essen, founder of CVE PRODUCTIONS, operates as an event producer, day-of coordinator, and your own personal sense of security when planning any event. Her eye for aesthetics and attention to detail extends to all corporate services, inclusive of grazing boards, florals, tablescapes, and event design. Christina’s previous clients include luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, PepsiCo, and Johnson & Johnson. She has made it a priority to engage in nonprofit and social impact projects, working with CASA of Travis County, United Ways of Texas, Pedal the Pacific, and The Refuge for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. In 2021, Ad2 Austin added Christina to the 32 Under 32 list.

Jaden Neufeld

Accelerator Lead & Director of Content Vancouver

Jaden is a creative generalist, culture builder, and people enthusiast. He longs to see God’s Kingdom come and will happily serve in any role to get the best seat. In 2020, he was a part of starting the Canadian Church Leaders Network — an organization strengthening pastors and churches in Canada — finishing as their Director of Programs & Content. Alongside this venture, he helped plant the Way Church in Vancouver, BC, where he still lives today. In Jaden’s spare time, you might find him tearing up over good poetry, experimenting with a new cocktail recipe, or asking new friends (too) many questions..

Lauren Carlson Administration NYC

Lauren Carlson has worked in administration and digital media development for various corporate brands and non-profits, such as New York University, Rachel Snyder Hospitality, The Nett, and The Carlson Law Firm. Lauren is a 2023 cum laude graduate of New York University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance-Musical Theatre and a Minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. While at NYU, she was the Program Assistant for Steinhardt Vocal Performance. She is so blessed to be a part of Missional Labs, and thankful to be utilizing her time bringing glory to God.

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