"Hugh is a spiritual father to me and a grandfather of the network of microchurches in our city! He mourns when you mourn and he celebrates when you celebrate, and loves you enough to invite you to do the same with him. Hugh didn’t just coach us with theory, he showed us how to follow Jesus with his own lived out story."

“The team at Brave Cities are practitioners. As usual, they're on the cutting edge of another revolution that needs to take place for the church to conform to the kingdom of God. I am convinced that Brave Cities is the next revolution.”

"As a missional pastor trying to put teeth to our church’s missional theology, I am truly grateful for the presence of Brave Cities with our leaders which has significantly contributed to our understanding of what it means to be missional. In fact, outside of the Bible, no voice has had a greater impact on my understanding of what a missional life and church looks like more than Hugh. I am truly grateful for both he and Brave Cities."

"We hired Brave Cities to coach our senior leadership team and key members of our congregation on how to discover and intentionally live into their God-given calling wherever they live, learn, work, and play. The result was rediscovering our collective mission and purpose as a church. He also served as an ongoing source of encouragement to our senior leadership team throughout the process."

"Our work in the neighborhoods on the south side of St. Louis has greatly benefitted by the partnership and mentorship with the Brave Cities team. The constantly shifting culture demands prayerful shifts in the methods that will effectively bring the Kingdom ethos to the communities we serve. Taylor and Hugh have patiently walked beside us on our journey and have brought fresh perspectives and meaningful insights to our relationship."

"We found the Brave cities team when our movement had gotten to a critical and fragile state. Taylor, Hugh, and the rest of the Brave cities crew helped to re-inspire us and open our imagination to how we could live in a way that brings all seekers in our city good news through business, community, and good works."

Our work with the Brave Cities team has helped to revolutionize the way we think about ministry and business, and given us the confidence to move boldly into new Kingdom paradigms and ecosystems.

“I think what Taylor and Hugh describe and coach through Brave Cities is actually ancient and is already happening in North America and around the world. The gift is in the articulation. Our community latched onto the language in a way that allowed us to actually talk about what was happening among us - in a way prevailing notions of church simply couldn’t provide. Having language that actually resonates, we’re more fully able to cooperate with the work of the Spirit among us. I’m grateful for this gift. And if this language doesn’t describe what you’re currently experiencing, it will provoke you to open your eyes to what God may already be doing in your city or neighborhood.”

"Brave Cities has created a tangible model of Kingdom Ecosystems for those of us that are fed up with the way Church has been yet not quite sure what the Church should be. My family and I have felt so much spiritual frustration over the years towards the divide between socially accepted expressions of faith and the ways that we actually feel connected to Jesus and to each other. Taylor and Hugh have given us a physical example of the ethereal promise we’ve been seeking. Within the businesses and impact movements in our city, we’ve found an expression of faith community that allows us to see the Kingdom of Heaven being built around us!"

“The work we are doing in Harrisburg has been boosted, encouraged, and improved due to our relationship with Brave Cities. The longer I attempt to follow Jesus, the more I feel drawn to the poor, outcast, and marginalized. Hugh and Taylor have been incredible friends and mentors in this journey, as we find Jesus in the most broken places.”