LAUNCH
You have a mission. We help you launch. A 3-day intensive for idea-stage builders starting new missional ventures. Go from idea to clarity, community, and next steps. Nashville, August 26–28.
WHAT IS LAUNCH?
A Starting Point for Missional Builders. Launch is a selective 3-day experience that helps early-stage builders clarify their vision, shape their idea, and design a path forward. Through teaching, coaching, and peer collaboration, you move from burden to concrete next steps.
CLARIFY YOUR CALLING
Discern the people, problem, frontier, and Gospel burden at the center of your work.
DESIGN YOUR FIRST STEPS
Pressure-test your idea, sharpen your model, and define your first concrete moves.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Build relationships with other builders and mentors who understand the work of starting something new.
CONTENT & TALKS
Six foundational talks, each built around a question every founder has to answer.
FOUNDER CALLING
Why you? Clarify the story, burden, and conviction behind your venture.
THE BURDEN
What is wrong? Define the deeper problem and the people you are called to serve.
VENTURE CONCEPT
What are you building? Name the mission, identity, and shape of the work.
CORE MODEL
How will it work? Clarify your operating model and early priorities.
NARRATIVE
Why will people care? Build language that moves founders, donors, and partners.
LAUNCH PLAN
What do your next 90 days look like? Define the actions and markers that matter.
FOR THE BUILDERS.
Launch is for missional builders: people who feel called to start something new for the Gospel, whether a ministry, nonprofit, church, movement, or impact venture. You have a burden, and you want to move from imagination to action.
FAQ
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Launch is a selective 3-day intensive for people called to build something new for the Gospel. It helps early-stage founders move from burden and vision to practical next steps through teaching, coaching, workshops, and peer collaboration.
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Launch is for missional builders. You’re an aspiring ministry founder, church planter, nonprofit leader, creative, evangelist, or Gospel entrepreneur.
Launch is built for people early in the journy. If you are too early to explain what you generally want to build, or too far along to benefit from foundational design and validation work, Launch is probably not the right fit. -
Launch is not for people looking for general life direction, nor for people who already have a team, funding, and a clear plan.
It is also not for any vague values-driven startup concept. We want projects that aim to make disciples, strengthen Christian community, and advance a compelling Gospel witness in culture and society. -
Participants bring new church plants, nonprofits, disciple-making initiatives, media projects, missional businesses, missional technology, and other expressions of Gospel mission. If it equips the Church, makes disciples, or advances the Gospel in society and culture, it likely belongs here.
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You’ll leave with greater clarity around your calling and vision, practical next steps, feedback from experienced leaders, and a roadmap for moving forward. You’ll also gain relationships with other builders who understand the journey you’re on.
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Launch is for anyone exploring how to build something meaningful for God’s mission in the world, whether inside traditional ministry structures or through new forms of holistic Gospel engagement in culture and society.
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Launch is currently offered free of charge for accepted participants through the support of our partners and donors. Participants are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses unless otherwise specified.
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Launch is designed as a starting point. Participants may continue building independently, stay connected through the Missional Labs network, or explore future opportunities for coaching, partnership, or advanced programs.
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We partner with churches that want to better identify, form, and send the builders already emerging within their community. Churches can sponsor participants, send teams, or explore ongoing partnership opportunities with Missional Labs to help cultivate new ministry initiatives from within their congregation.
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We believe the Church needs builders again. Every generation faces new mission frontiers, but many emerging founders lack the formation they need to begin. Launch exists to help missional builders take the first faithful step.