Inside the Hub: Why Immersion Accelerates Movements
- Dave Miller
- Aug 12
- 3 min read
by Dave Miller and Mark Goering
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When we talk about a “hub immersion,” we’re not talking about a formal program or a pre-packaged system. We’re talking about something far more organic—something we see modeled in Acts 18–20, especially in Paul’s time at the Hall of Tyrannus in Acts 19.
In that season, Paul met with a small group day after day. Over the course of two years, what began with just a few people multiplied into a movement that spread across the region. This wasn’t just classroom learning—it was seeing, experiencing, and then reproducing together.
That’s the power of immersion.
Why Immersion Works
At the upcoming 2025 Unreached Peoples North America Conference in Oklahoma City, we’re inviting people into this kind of shared experience. Not just to hear from “talking heads,” but to get in the same room, share life, learn together, and walk away with something that’s ready to reproduce.
In practical terms, that means pulling back the curtain on real-life covocational (CoVo) ministry. You’ll meet people who work regular jobs while intentionally engaging a specific people group.
You’ll see how business operations can be structured for mission impact. You’ll connect with those who are doing it in the military, from home-based businesses, and in everyday life.
When we share space like this—life on life—the Holy Spirit often forges relationships and partnerships that can’t be engineered. A hub emerges naturally when leaders live out common habits and rhythms together.
The Biblical Pattern
In Acts 18, Paul began working alongside Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth. They built trust while sharing both work and ministry, weaving gospel conversations into their daily tentmaking. That trust became the foundation for what would later happen in Ephesus.
By Acts 19, Paul shifted into a more stable, rooted mode of ministry—teaching daily in the Hall of Tyrannus. From there, leaders and communities “breathed in” the Word together and “breathed out” the mission into all of Asia Minor. This wasn’t a solo effort; it was a network learning, working, and multiplying as one.
The result? No Place Left.
Habits and Rhythms: The Core of a Hub
When we talk about habits and rhythms, here’s what we mean:
Habits are what I do as an individual follower of Jesus—daily repentance and belief, prayer, time in the Word, living in my identity in Christ, generosity, worship, and expecting God to move.
Rhythms are what we do together as a tribe—entering new communities, sharing the gospel, discipling others, forming churches, and developing leaders.
In Acts 18, those habits took root in individuals. In Acts 19–20, those same leaders lived out rhythms together, and the combination accelerated both adoption and multiplication.
Too often, we want to organize a hub. But biblically, hubs emerge from leaders who consistently live out habits and rhythms in community. Over time, that lifestyle becomes reproducible—and others can experience it, catch it, and carry it forward.
Why UPNA 2025 Matters
If you want to see this in action, you have to experience it firsthand. That’s why the Oklahoma City immersion is so important. You’ll witness how personal habits and shared rhythms intersect. You’ll participate in the kind of community that doesn’t just talk about multiplication—it lives it.
When you breathe in the things of God through habits, and breathe them out in rhythms with others, you’re not just building an organization. You’re building a living, reproducing community anchored in trust, values, and obedience to Jesus.
This is how movements accelerate. And it’s how we’ll see the gospel advance until there truly is no place left.
Watch the biblical pattern unfold in the life of Jesus through the Gospel of Mark at muddybootsleader.com with Mark Goering.
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