ABOUT

Activating Missional Imagination.

The world is changing fast. Globalization, technology, and cultural shifts are reshaping our world.

This is a missional challenge for a new generation of Christians.  The Church must recover a courageous imagination to faithfully engage our world with the Gospel.

We believe God is raising up a wave of leaders to plant churches, make disciples, build ventures, and start movements.  But these leaders need pathways to move from imagination to impact. That's where we come in. 

Missional Labs is an innovation lab for the Church. We form leaders, incubate ideas, and build ventures that equip the Church and engage the world, through spiritual formation, practical strategy, and supportive relationships.

We’re building a community for the future of mission.  Join us.

THE CHALLENGE

Billions of people today are unengaged with the Gospel, but the Church is often built for maintenance more than mission, and emerging leaders lack the support to explore what’s next. We need new pathways for missional imagination and innovation.

OUR PATHWAY

IMAGINE

We activate missional imagination, helping churches and leaders explore what God is doing next through formative content, practical tools, and catalytic workshops.

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DESIGN

We help leaders turn vision into reality, incubating new initiatives that meet today’s mission challenges through cohorts, coaching, and strategic design.

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BUILD

We support high-impact ventures with an ecosystem of capital, community, and strategic partners, to amplify their mission and multiply kingdom impact.

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OUR FOCUS AREAS

We explore the Church’s timeless mission in today’s world, engaging cities, digital spaces, emerging generations, unreached regions, and more.

  • Innovating with technology to reach people and disciple communities in a digital world.

    • AI & the Future of Mission

    • Digital Platforms for Discipleship

    • Online Communities & Micro-Churches

    • Tech-Enabled Ministry Tools

    • Immersive & Interactive Gospel Experiences

  • Helping people encounter Jesus and grow as disciples.

    • Disciple-Making Movements

    • Church-Based Evangelism

    • Apologetics & Public Theology

    • Digital Evangelism

    • Relational Evangelism

  • Forming bold, Spirit-led leaders for the Church and the world.

    • Planter & Missionary Training

    • Church-Based Leadership Pipelines

    • Innovative Theological Education

    • Peer Fellowships & Networks

    • Next-Gen Leader Development

  • Launching contextual, multiplying communities of faith.

    • Church Planting Movements

    • House & Microchurch Models

    • Network-Based Churches

    • Workplace Churches

    • Renewal Movements

  • Engaging culture with Gospel imagination.

    • Faith & Work Integration

    • Media & Storytelling

    • Public Theology

    • Mission & Globalization

    • Emerging Worldviews

  • Tackling real-world issues with Kingdom solutions.

    • Relief & Humanitarian Mission

    • Community Development

    • Peacemaking & Reconciliation

    • Justice & Advocacy

    • Human Flourishing Initiatives

  • Reaching the unreached and advancing mission where the Gospel is least known.

    • Unreached People Groups

    • Diaspora & Migration Ministries

    • Urban & Megacity Missions

    • Frontier Church Planting

    • Strategic Global Partnerships

TEAM

Tyler Prieb
Co-Founder, Executive Director

Stephen Mulder
Co-Founder, Director of Partnerships

Dr. Frog Orr-Ewing
Theology Partner, UK Lead

Grant Demeter
Strategic Partner, NYC

Raphael Anzenberger
Strategic Partner, Montreal

Christina Van Essen
Director of Events

Jena Postma
Creative Producer

Hannah Heilman
Data Analyst

BOARD (US)

Tyler Prieb, Missional Labs
Luke Tubergen, Ember Fund
Ted Esler, Missio Nexus
Kayla Brown, Grace & Mercy Foundation

ADVISORS

Dr. Chad Causey, OneHope
Jon Tyson, Church of the City New York
Shaila Visser, Alpha Canada
Alan Hirsch, Speaker and Author
Amy Orr Ewing, Apologist

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