Ricky Bailey: Church at Ginger’s

Ricky Bailey: Church at Ginger’s

I never come to an NextGen expecting to leave the same. In fact, I have been a part of this movement in one way or another for over a decade, and each time I come, God usually pulls me back from activity and into a closer relationship with Him. I had grown accustomed...
Clara Litzsinger: The God Who Sees Me

Clara Litzsinger: The God Who Sees Me

If I ever got a tattoo it would say “El Roi.” In an intimately beautiful moment of Scripture, we see Hagar enter into a personal relationship with God: “She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: El Roi [You are the One who sees me].” (Genesis 16:13). Hagar was...
Janine James: I Will Remember Them

Janine James: I Will Remember Them

This blog post was written in January of 2020. At the time, I wasn’t personally grieving anything, but the Lord laid this scripture on my heart. I wrote it on Friday and scheduled it to post the following Monday. That Sunday, the tragic news of Kobe Bryant, his...
Chris Brown: Processing My Heart for Christmas

Chris Brown: Processing My Heart for Christmas

Recently as I was at my first “in person” Nextgen conference, I was there to just be. I had not gotten permission to do that in a long time. As I was listening to some of the speakers, I was taking in so much. I was learning and processing. At one point both the...

ELC Insight, Rasool Berry

What happens when you take 65 men and women from 40 mission and church organizations around the world and invite them to a grace-filled environment that teaches and embraces Jesus Christ as the center of everything? Well, when the Center for Global...