Forge America

06/20/2026

🍂✨ A Retreat for Your Missional Spirit! 🍃

The FORGE AMERICA NATIONAL GATHERING is a chance to step away from the everyday rhythms of ministry and mission to be refreshed, encouraged, and reconnected with a tribe of fellow missional practitioners from across the country.

Whether you're a seasoned leader or just beginning your missional journey, this gathering is designed to recharge you for the mission ahead. Together, we'll share stories, expand our missional imagination, and encourage one another as we learn to live more fully as Sent Ones of Jesus in our unique contexts.

🗓 November 4–7
📍 Charlotte, NC | Drury Inn & Suites
💵 $275 (Pioneer and Partner Members receive a $100 discount)

🎁 BONUS: If you're not already a Forge member, your National Gathering registration includes a FREE 6-month Practitioner Membership so you can stay connected, equipped, and resourced long after the gathering ends.

Come be refreshed. Come be known. Come be sent.

👉 Click the registration link for more information and to register: www.forgeamerica.com/event-details/forge-america-national-gathering-26

Join us for an impactful time with other missional practitioners for mutual support, encouragement, and equipping.

06/20/2026

👥 PEOPLE AREN'T PROJECTS

🎙️ In Season 7, Episode 3, Alan Bradford and Terry Ishee explore whether one of the biggest reasons mission feels frustrating is because we've accidentally treated people like projects instead of friends.
They unpack several signs that relationships may be missing from our mission:

📋 We know needs, but not names.
🙋 We have volunteers, but not friends.
🏡 We serve communities we don't actually spend time with.
🔨 We do projects for people, but rarely share life with people.
📈 Our stories focus on what we accomplish, not who we love.

The challenge isn't to do more.

The challenge is to slow down, learn names, build friendships, and practice the way of Jesus through genuine relationships.

Because mission isn't credible without relationship.

And people aren't projects... they're worth knowing and loving.

🎧 Listen now and join the conversation: www.forgeamerica.com/podcast/episode/47bbd9c1/communitas

Listen to the Forge America Podcast—conversations equipping missional practitioners to live as everyday missionaries in their neighborhoods and communities.

05/30/2026

You're Already on Mission - www.forgeamerica.com

05/22/2026

☀️⛺ IT'S "SUMMER CAMP" FOR MISSIONAL PRACTITIONERS!

Join us this fall for our annual FORGE AMERICA NATIONAL GATHERING, a powerful time of encouragement, connection, and refreshment for missional practitioners from across the country.

Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting out, this event connects you to a community of missional practitioners and recharges you to live as a Sent One of Jesus in your unique context. We’ll share stories, sharpen our missional imagination, and support one another on our journeys of kingdom living.

🗓 November 4–7
📍 Charlotte, NC | Drury Inn & Suites
💵 $275 (Pioneer and Partner members receive a $100 discount)
👉 BONUS: If you’re not already a Forge member, attending the National Gathering gets you a FREE 6-month Practitioner Membership, so you can stay connected and resourced long after the gathering.

Come be refreshed. Come be encouraged. Come be part of the tribe. Click the registration link below for more info:

Join us for an impactful time with other missional practitioners for mutual support, encouragement, and equipping.

05/12/2026

MISSION DOESN’T MICROWAVE... IT CROCK POTS 🍲

🎙 In Season 7, Episode 2, Alan Bradford and Terry Ishee explore why mission often becomes exhausting when it turns into one more program, project, or event.

Their reminder is simple:

Mission is not something you add on. Mission is a mindset.

When we begin to see our everyday relationships as the primary context for mission, everything changes.

Mission becomes less about doing more and more about practicing the way of Jesus with the people already around us.

🚶 Slow walks.
🍽️ Slow meals.
👂 Listening well.
🏡 Faithful presence..

If you’ve ever felt burned out trying to “do mission,” this conversation offers a better way.

🎧 Listen now and be reminded that the Good News travels on relational roads: www.forgeamerica.com/podcast/episode/5376471f/mission-without-relationship

Listen to the Forge America Podcast—conversations equipping missional practitioners to live as everyday missionaries in their neighborhoods and communities.

04/29/2026

🎙 THE PODCAST IS BACK!

After some time off, the Forge America Podcast dropped Season 7, Episode 1… and it’s more than a “welcome back.”

It’s a look forward at the next 15 years with Forge.

And what’s emerging is clarity of vision:

👉 We’re missional practitioners… cultivating other missional practitioners.
👉 We exist to resource, train, and gather.
👉 We’re building toward connection with practitioners in all 50 states.

And in this episode, we start unpacking the 5 Core Principles of Missional Movement:

✅ Mission
✅ Context
✅ Community
✅ Formation
✅ Practice

And maybe the most important reminder: You’re not crazy. And you’re not alone.

🎧 Listen here: www.forgeamerica.com/podcast/episode/46c759c5/welcome-back

If you’re out there trying to live missionally in your city, your neighborhood, your everyday spaces… Forge wants to connect with you and link arms with you.

04/24/2026

🔥FORGE SUMMIT DAY THREE 🔥

Before Summit ended, we got an opportunity to honor Rowland.

Through stories and toasts, we celebrated his leadership and the way he’s helped shape this tribe over the years. Grateful for his impact and the road ahead.

Then we closed the Summit by slowing down.

After a full few days together, we made space to reflect, pray, and pay attention to what God has been stirring in us.

Through guided reflection, shared stories, and creative expression, leaders named what they’re carrying home… and where they sense invitation moving forward.

As we closed, there was a common theme: this isn’t something we go build… it’s something we get to step into as we say “yes” to God’s mission in the places God has already sent us

Thank you to everyone who joined us this week and became a part of the movement.

04/22/2026

🔥 FORGE SUMMIT DAY TWO 🔥

Today we went deeper as day two of the Forge America Summit ’26 focused on re-framing mission and formation.

We started by shifting how we see mission: not a project to manage, but a posture of presence and participation in what God is already doing.

And formation: not a program to complete, but a way of life shaped in the way of Jesus.

Through worship, honest conversations, and a wide range of breakout sessions, we explored what this actually looks like in real contexts, with real people, in everyday life.

From identifying our context, to sharing stories from the neighborhood, to thinking about partnerships and life on the margins…there was a consistent thread: faithfulness looks like simply saying “yes” to what God is doing in the everyday.

We ended the day with space to reflect, pray, and pay attention to how God is forming us in the middle of it all.

Stay tuned. One more day to go.

04/22/2026

🔥 FORGE SUMMIT DAY ONE 🔥

The Forge America Summit ’26 opened today in Greer, SC with authentic worship, a powerful re-framing of success, and meaningful breakout conversations.

Throughout the day, we leaned into what it means to faithfully say “yes” to God’s mission… regardless of outcomes.

We’re learning that we’re not alone in our vulnerabilities. Not alone in our questions. Not alone in the tension of trying to live this out.

And we’re learning the power of discovering that God is already at work… right where we are.

Stay tuned for Day Two!

04/22/2026

DAY ONE of FORGE SUMMIT! Let’s go!