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Reflections from trainings, interviews with movement leaders, and honest updates from around the region.
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What we got wrong in our first two years
We trained faster than we coached, and groups stalled at the second generation. Here is what changed when we slowed the front end down.
July 28, 2026 · NGNA Team
Seven questions, and the discipline of staying quiet
Most coaching mistakes happen in the first thirty seconds after a question. Here is what we tell new coaches about the silence that follows.
July 14, 2026 · NGNA Team
A coordinator on what the slow years taught him
Five years without a single group multiplying, then eleven in one season. A regional coordinator on what changed and what didn't.
June 30, 2026 · NGNA Team
Notes from a training weekend in Denver
Twenty-two people, three days, and the same question asked a hundred different ways: what do I do when nobody comes back the second week?
June 12, 2026 · NGNA Team
Praying for a city before doing anything else
Before the first training, before the first group, there was a year of just walking the neighborhood and praying. Here is why that still matters.
May 29, 2026 · NGNA Team
The habits of a replicating disciple
Not every disciple reproduces. The ones who do tend to share a small set of habits that have nothing to do with talent.
May 10, 2026 · NGNA Team
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