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DFW is living the model.
A local expression of what NXT Move is doing globally — and a working prototype the rest of the world is watching.
The old models aren't working. A new one is.
The DFW Model City initiative is the most operationally mature Catalytic Communities deployment anywhere in the NXT Move network — the place where the global blueprint becomes a working reality. Cohorts of pastors, marketplace leaders, and next-gen ministers are collaborating, sharing insight, and growing together in one of America's most strategically diverse cities. What's proven here is being exported to Nairobi, São Paulo, and Perth.
"NXT Move champions North American leaders by connecting them to the global community — expanding their vision beyond their own city and denomination. That is the multiplier effect of being championed into a global community."
The data is sobering.
NXT Move's research partnership with Dallas Theological Seminary is developing a longitudinal study of Christian practices and faith maturity in the next generation — findings that will shape strategy in DFW and inform every other region in the network.
Four pillars. One city.
Cohorts of pastors, marketplace leaders, and next-gen ministers collaborating, sharing insight, and growing together — the same model NXT Move is exporting to Nairobi, São Paulo, and Perth.
A research partnership with Dallas Theological Seminary developing a longitudinal study of Christian practices and faith maturity in the next generation. Findings shape strategy here — and inform every other region.
The DFW Next-Gen Leaders Forum equips local leaders with tools, language, and relational depth — and convenes the influencers shaping faith for an entire metroplex.
United influencers across DFW championing a shared vision for the next generation — across denominations, ethnicities, and ministry contexts, in one of America's most strategically diverse cities.
Catalyze · Collaborate · Champion
North America faces a defining generational challenge: fewer than 40% of Millennials and Gen Z identify as Christian — and many are disengaging from the Church entirely. NXT Move's DFW Model City initiative is the most advanced expression of the Catalytic Communities model anywhere in the network, building deep collaboration across churches, ministries, and Christian business leaders.
NXT Move convenes and connects younger ministry leaders through roundtable conversations that foster collaboration, mutual learning, and shared vision. A research partnership with Dallas Theological Seminary is underway — building a longitudinal study of Christian practices and faith maturity that will inform the whole network for years to come.
NXT Move champions North American leaders by connecting them to the global community — expanding their vision beyond their own city and denomination, and as a result, US resources are extending to regions around the world. Leaders here discover they are part of something far larger than their own context.
What is proven here is replicable everywhere.
If 11 regions describe the breadth of NXT Move, Dallas–Fort Worth describes the depth. The DFW Model City is not the destination of NXT Move — it is the working prototype that proves the global thesis can land in a single city, in a single block, with a single trained leader, and reshape the trajectory of a generation.
A gift to NXT Move from DFW does two things at once: it deepens the work happening in your own backyard, and it underwrites the model the rest of the world is watching.