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The work

This page reflects the missions we are actively carrying, preparing, or discerning. Each one demands preparation, responsibility, and the willingness to enter formation under load.

What is listed here is work we are prepared to lead well—now or soon.

We do the work that makes the work possible.

Next Missions:

  • IRON FORGE, Proverbs 27:17 (March 2027)

  • IRON FORGE, Proverbs 27:17 (Late Spring 2027)

  • EXODUS FIRE, Deuteronomy 8:2 (September 2027)

  • THE REFINER, Proverbs 27:17 (October 2027)

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IRON FORGE

Proverbs 27:17
Art Loeb Trail · Pisgah National Forest, NC

Three days on the Art Loeb for young men, carrying everything on their backs, with fathers and mentors walking it beside them.

Three kinds of men go. First-timers, who have never done anything like this. The mentors who walk with them. And the forged, who already did it once and came back to carry for somebody else.

March 4 to 6, 2027 · A second 2027 cohort under consideration

Step Forward

  • Luke 24:32
    Western North Carolina

    Discipleship for Christian ultra runners, built on the creation week. Eight formations across a season: Light, Order, Growth, Guidance, Strength, Reflection, Rest, Homecoming. Each one anchored in Scripture and worked out in training, not in a room.

    This is a covenant, not a sponsorship. Nobody is buying a logo on a jersey. SBI comes alongside an athlete for a year and carries part of the weight so the running can be about something.

    The distance is not the discipleship. It is the room the discipleship happens in.

    First cohort running now · Five athletes toward the Heartbreaker 50 and the Hellbender 100

  • Job 23:10
    Mount Mitchell · Burnsville, NC

    Three days of hard ground, deep Scripture and honest conversation for Christian men who run things. Founders, partners, men who carry something and have nobody to set it down in front of.

    Eleven point eight miles to the highest ground east of the Mississippi, two fires, and a Sunday morning.

    The mountain is the tool. The mountain is not the point.

    October, annually · Praying toward 2027

  • Deuteronomy 8:2
    Grand Canyon National Park

    Rim to rim in a single day. For couples and experienced adults who want to be put under real load alongside somebody they love. You step off in the dark and you do not stop for a long time, and somewhere down in it what you have been carrying comes up on its own.

    This one is not about finishing and it is not about getting away. It is about being led. Hardship does not put anything new in a man. It surfaces what was already there and hands it to God.

    September 2027

  • 1 Peter 2:5
    Location held quietly

    Long miles with your spouse, carried together, with nobody watching. Not a retreat and not a vacation. Days of walking, and what the walking turns up between two people who thought they already knew each other.

    And the people you meet out there. You walk the same trail for days, you keep passing the same faces, and you pray for them. That part is not incidental. It may turn out to be the whole of it.

    We are still listening on this one. It has run once and we are not ready to say what it becomes.

    Under discernment

A young man sitting on the ground outdoors, smiling at the camera, wearing a blue T-shirt, a black baseball cap worn backwards, and holding a hiking stick. In the background, there are other people near a vehicle and trees.

“This hike mirrored life. God has been pressing on my heart to step fully into manhood—to suffer so I can be better for others, and to push past mediocrity.
Now I look at challenges the same way we climbed: no matter the pain, I take the next step.”

— Tyler