Speaker Reports from The Road: The Forge Podcast Network

Forge Speaker Adrian Despres reports from Ambassador Camp in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, where he spent the week training about 75 student leaders preparing to serve thousands of campers over the summer. The sessions covered biblical witnessing techniques, sharing faith, and the basics of apologetics — and the students wouldn't stop asking questions. Adrian describes it as squarely in his w...

Forge Speaker Paul Epperson reports from High Point Church in Colorado, where Forge Speaker and Pastor Caleb McNaughton leads a congregation that includes a significant number of Forge board members, speakers, and staff. Paul describes the event not as a standalone moment but as a stepping stone in something God has already been building there for a long time. People responded in a variety of ways...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from Thailand, where he led a Forge Equipping young adult training trip with a team of eleven — ten students plus himself. Thailand is a 0.77% Christian country, meaning more than 99% of its population is unreached. In one village, Nathan asked a woman if she had ever heard of Jesus. She said she thought so — but that no one in the village went by that name. The t...

Forge Speaker Dwight Robertson reports from Relentless Men, a Colorado men's event where hundreds gathered hungry for more of God, more of His will, and more of His glory. Dwight spoke on opening night, and when he called for decisions, men of all ages and backgrounds came forward — some making the most important decisions of their lives, some receiving Christ for the very first time. One man...

Forge Speaker Melissa Motschenbacher reports from a MomCo group in South Denver, where she gathered with moms to study the 12-year-old Jesus in Luke 2 and Samuel in 1 Samuel 3. Together they laughed, cried, and dug into what it looks like to put Jesus at the center of motherhood. Melissa challenged the moms to create monumental moments with Jesus for their children — prioritizing praise, prayer, p...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from Boulder, Colorado, where he partnered with Forge Speakers Paul Epperson and Joshua McFadden for a Life on Purpose conference as part of the Ignite campaign. The conference was designed to equip people to be Kingdom Laborers in their own spheres of influence — and Nathan says it was abundantly clear that God was answering the prayers of the Forge family. This...

Forge Speaker Paul Epperson reports from a Life on Purpose conference in Boulder, Colorado, where he joined Nathan Burd and Josh McFadden as part of the ongoing Ignite campaign in the Brighton area. The congregation came hungry and ready from the very beginning — and by the end, Paul describes a powerful move of the Spirit and a room full of people committing to be Kingdom Laborers every day, for...

Forge Speaker Adrian Despres reports from a Fellowship of Christian Athletes event at Rock Hill High School in Rock Hill, South Carolina — where about a third of the students in attendance were not church attenders. The Spirit of God moved through the room, and a number of students gave their lives to Christ. Then a student took the mic and invited anyone who had made a decision or rededicated the...

Forge Speaker Dwight Robertson reports from a virtual two-hour teaching session with a group from Texas, Michigan, and Los Angeles — believers who had joined a six-week course hungry to build what God was calling them to start. Dwight reflects on the deep joy of doing what Paul charged Timothy to do: entrusting reliable people who will in turn entrust others. At the end of the Q&A, one partici...

Forge Speaker Adrian Despres reports from three back-to-back events across South Carolina. At Newberry College, he spoke at a spike ball competition, shared the "Worst Verse" message with students, saw a number rededicate their lives, and had an intriguing conversation with an atheist afterward. At Camden Military Academy, he spoke to 300 students on passion for Christ — and when he invi...

Forge Speaker Adrian Despres reports from two assignments — a training trip to Ghana working alongside evangelists, and a stop at Providence Home where he preached to about thirty men walking through difficult seasons of life. Five of them prayed to receive Christ. Another fifteen or so rededicated their lives. Out of thirty people, that's a remarkable response. Adrian preached a message he ca...

Forge Firebrand Molly McGinn reports from Cape Coast, Ghana, where she had the privilege of speaking both on street corners and inside a church as part of the Love Ghana Festival. Close to 200 people — possibly more — came to Christ, and there were many commitments to Kingdom laborship alongside those decisions. Molly also witnessed a personal moment of healing during the trip, and reflects on wha...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from North Africa, where he traveled with a team of four — two Forge alumni and another Forge speaker — to train, equip, and encourage believers who face daily persecution for their faith. He describes the trip on a scale of ones and tens: moments of profound difficulty alongside unmistakable displays of God's faithfulness. During the conference, someone who h...

Forge Speaker Santiago Fuentes reports from the International School of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, where the week didn't start the way anyone hoped. The first two days were hard — little response, little attention from the high school students. Then the Lord broke through. By the end of the week, students were committing their lives to Jesus and believing in Him for the very first time. Santiago...

Forge Speaker Colin Villanueva reports from the International School of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, where he and Forge Speaker Santiago Fuentes, spent a full week pouring into middle school students through five assemblies, Bible classes, and an all-day chapel. In an audience of 415, roughly 15 students received Jesus for the first time, and about half made a recommitment to follow Him. What stood ou...

Forge Speaker and Operations and Communications Director Melissa Motschenbacher reports from the Ignite Life on Purpose conference at Healing Place Church in Brighton, Colorado. Ninety-nine people gathered on Friday night — including pastors attending for their second and third time, and Kingdom Laborers returning hungry for more practical equipping. A man in his sixties or seventies gave his life...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from Brighton, Colorado, where he partnered with Forge Speaker John Vermilya and other Forge representatives for a Life on Purpose conference as part of the Ignite campaign. Ignite is Forge's latest initiative — working alongside pastors across an entire city to mobilize people as Kingdom Laborers, everywhere and every day. Brighton is currently in phase one:...

Forge Speaker Paul Epperson reports from one of the most memorable events of his time on the road — a men's gathering of about fifty guys who love Christ, gathered around a bonfire in the middle of nowhere. Men were raw and real, walking through fear, confessing what distracts them from following Jesus, and singing praises to God out loud under the open sky. Paul describes it simply: a heaven-...

Forge Speaker Jonathan Shwerin reports from the Tabernacle's Sportsman Banquet — a two-day event that drew 300 people each day, with over 600 present across the weekend. The church came prepared, had been praying for lost people, and their team executed with excellence. By the end of the two days, 218 spiritual decisions had been made — 59 of them first-time decisions to follow Jesus. Jonathan...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from a call with pastors in Nigeria, where the message of laborers landed with immediate impact. Their response was simple and direct: thank you for this encouraging message. Nathan reflects on what he continues to witness — ordinary people around the world hungry to know that God can use them to share Jesus with the people right around them. The message is spread...

Forge Speaker Paul Epperson reports from Starkville, Mississippi, where he spent six days partnering with Forge speaker Chris Prather and his wife Shelby across six different speaking locations. People responded to the gospel, took steps of faith, marriages were strengthened, and families walked away with fresh testimonies and renewed vision. Paul also highlights the joy of having his wife Natalie...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports on a fresh connection with believers in Bangladesh — leaders working in some of the most remote parts of the country. After sharing the Laborers Training with them over a phone call, their response was immediate: "This is so good, we really want to share it with our church." Nathan calls the Forge family to pray that these believers carry the message of...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from a call with believers in South Asia whose story stretches far beyond one conversation. They heard the message of laborers, began to share it, and watched it spread — today there are hundreds of trained laborers all across that nation proclaiming the gospel. One man on the call admitted he didn't think it was going to work, until he saw Jesus changing hear...

Forge Speaker Dwight Robertson reports from the Brighton Ignite Colorado event, where Anglicans, Seventh-Day Adventists, Baptists, charismatics, Messianic Jews, a Pakistani pastor, and independents gathered as one to discover how to be Kingdom Laborers in their section of the planet. Snow fell on Brighton as a woman who had been praying for forty years watched a vision come to life in that room. A...

Forge Speaker Nathan Burd reports from Colorado Christian University in Denver, where he partnered with students preparing to deploy on international mission trips this spring break and summer. Nathan shared on Labor Shift and how to share your God story — equipping the next generation to engage the harvest not just globally, but in their own backyard. He reflects on the hunger he witnessed in the...