ABOUT MOVEMENTAL
It started as a conversation.
For two years, Josh kept circling the same worry with Alan and Brad. AI was arriving in churches, nonprofits, and seminaries faster than anyone was deciding how to meet it. The people most exposed were the ones whose entire work rests on trust, and they had the least time to think it through.
Josh did not want to add to the noise. He wanted to build the thing he wished existed: a way for a mission-driven organization to meet this moment in order, without faking its way through, and without losing the human core of the work. Alan and Brad joined, opened the authorship question together, and the conversation became a partnership. In 2026, it became Movemental.
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Alan Hirsch is the movement thinker. Brad Brisco is the missional leader and CEO. Josh Shepherd is the technical founder who builds the platform, the agents, and the system underneath.
Brad holds the CEO seat on purpose. Trust is the product, and he already carries that trust in the field. The org chart says the thesis: the person who builds hands the trust seat to the person who already holds it.
Alan HirschCo-Founder & Chief Movement OfficerAlan Hirsch is the missiologist behind The Forgotten Ways and the movement thinker who coined the term movemental.
Brad BriscoCo-Founder & CEOBrad Brisco leads Movemental as CEO and translates missional theology into the planting language denominations actually use.
Josh ShepherdFounder & CTOJosh Shepherd builds Movemental's platform, agents, and system underneath, at the seam between software and mission-driven organizations.
Movemental is a company.
We say so plainly because the people we serve deserve to know what we are.
We hold one line: the call to resolve and respond should be worth making even if no one ever pays us.
The Resolution, Reality Assessment, Map and public Guidebook are free. Organizations can use the method independently.
What organizations hire Movemental to provide is the capacity to carry that method into practice: guided implementation, formation, institutional context reconstruction, purpose-built technology and continuing stewardship.
Our work grows alongside movement leaders whose knowledge and practice helped make it possible.
Read the Guidebook →Resolve. Say what you believe.
Respond. Help your organization live it.