We understand that the purpose of equipping, encouraging, and empowering believers to grow deeper in their relationship with God through prayer and more confident to share His love with others is something that can only truly happen through the power of the Holy Spirit. Our humble prayer, then is that we can partner with God to love, serve and train those that He would connect us with. We know that this vision to engage the United States is a tiny part of God’s great harvest plan. Our heart is to be faithful with God has entrusted to us, and obedient to spend our lives focusing on the portion that He has for us.
On this page, you will find information as to the way we plan to invest our time, energy and financial resources as we work together with our ministry partners, local church communities, and everyday followers of Jesus towards fulfilling our purpose.
The proposed budget for 2024 for this initiative is $276,000, which will mobilize our team to invest over 7,600 hours towards fulfilling the vision and reaching our goals. The budget would cover payroll for the team, as well as travel and training, creating and distributing equipping resources, and providing follow up support to those we are serving.This graphic is meant to help communicate how we will focus our time, energy and resources during 2024. If you have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to ask.
We will pursue the purpose of empowering everyday followers of Jesus to grow deeper in a lifestyle of prayer and mission through our four priorities. Below is a list of goals and objectives that we have prayerfully laid out to help us follow through and stay focused.
To be a mature expression of a sending and receiving community that serves the Body of Christ in the region, our nation, and other parts of the world as measured by:
In 2012, we established the Hub as a prayer and missions base to serve spiritual family in our region and beyond. Since then, dozens of believers have been trained and sent out to follow Jesus and make disciples around the region and across the nation. As we launch the Cultivate Collective, we are prioritizing the health and strength of this hub so it can serve and support those who are being sent out, as we continue to disciple, equip and release sons and daughters of the King to impact every sphere of society for the glory of God.
To be a mature expression of a sending and receiving community that serves the Body of Christ in the region, our nation, and other parts of the world as measured by:
To have connected with and serve the body of Christ in each of the 32 counties, believing Jesus for a fresh move of Holy Spirit and a harvest of hearts among the 4.9 million people and on the 80 campuses in the region.
2023 was the eighth summer that we have invited young leaders to be a part of the Summer in the Grove. Since its inception, 70 students from 21 different states have participated in this nine-week intensive, focused on learning how to follow Jesus, make disciples and grow in Christ-centered leadership. As we launch The Cultivate Collective, we will grow the intensive to serve more students, as well as develop internship opportunities with our partners for further learning. We are also looking to raise up leaders to multiply the training in other regions.
To have connected with and serve the body of Christ in each of the 32 counties, believing Jesus for a fresh move of Holy Spirit and a harvest of hearts among the 4.9 million people and on the 80 campuses in the region.
To have connected with and serve the body of Christ in each of the 32 counties, believing Jesus for a fresh move of Holy Spirit and a harvest of hearts among the 4.9 million people and on the 80 campuses in the region.
As we look to partner with the YES in the hearts of God’s people, we are focusing 80% of our time, energy and resources on fueling prayer and mission in the 32 counties in our region. We will do this by partnering together with local churches, prayer ministries and missional communities to connect, train and resource believers to be confident as they follow Jesus deeper in prayer and living out the mission of seeing the good news of His love spread to the world around them.
To finish the summer of 2025, having graduated at least 25 young adults (combined ’24 & ’25) from both the region & around the country, and have mentored and discipled at least 2 residents to help lead each summer.
To be prepared and ready to launch a twelve week pilot in September 2025 as defined by:
Since 2011, we have been praying, building relationships and pursuing the vision of launching a prayer and missions lab in a small neighborhood of New York City. The St Marks Project will be an opportunity for our strategic partners to collaborate in a hyper-local strategy of intercession and missional presence to see the good news of Jesus spread. Entrepreneurs, artists, and missionaries will all work, live, pray and play in this 5×5 slice of the East Village, before they are sent to the nations or back to their home towns to live out the gospel.
To be prepared and ready to launch a twelve week pilot in September 2025 as defined by:
With so many believers regularly praying for opportunities to share Jesus with those around them, we will create and serve opportunities for those believers to connect in prayer with others in their communities, believing that God responds to the united prayers of His people.
Together with our partners, we will provide access to live trainings and online resources that help people grow in their understanding of scripture, as they receiving practical insights on how to partner with the Holy Spirit to grow deeper in prayer, and more confidence to share His love with others.
Because we believe that people are not fully empowered until they are actively practicing in what they have learned, we will prioritize creating on-going opportunities for people to engage in prayer and mission, as well as helping them learn how to integrate what they have learned into their everyday lives.
As 2024 approaches, we are asking God to connect us with people whose hearts see the value in empowering everyday followers of Jesus to grow deeper in a lifestyle of prayer and mission. As we pursue this purpose, by partnering with the YES in the hearts of God’s people, we are inviting people to engage in this vision with us. Would you help us launch this initiative?
If you are passionate to see the good news of God’s love spread from neighborhoods to nations, we invite you to download the Intro & Overview.
Equip, Encourage and Empower Everyday Followers of Jesus.
Thank you for your interest in the Hub. If you have any questions or want to talk with someone from our team, please reach out; someone will get back with you.