ABOUT TAKING NEW GROUND
A Global History. A Focused Mission.
Taking New Ground exists to catalyze movements of multiplying churches in hard-to-reach parts of the world. Over the years, we have worked alongside ministry leaders across multiple regions and cultures. Today, our focus is increasingly centered on the 10/40 Window, where trusted indigenous leaders are positioned to take the Gospel into communities with limited access.
OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
A Growing Global Footprint
Over the years, Taking New Ground has worked directly alongside ministry leaders in 23 countries, while leaders from eight additional countries have participated in TNG-supported training cohorts.
Represented Through Training Cohorts – 8 Countries
Direct Ministry Work –23 Countries
United States · Cuba · Dominican Republic · Nicaragua · El Salvador · Brazil · Uruguay · France · Slovenia · Croatia · Albania · North Macedonia · Georgia · Uganda · Russia · Nepal · Bhutan · Bangladesh · Laos · Cambodia · Philippines · Pakistan · India
Argentina · Bulgaria · Montenegro · Serbia · Mongolia · Afghanistan · Thailand · Sri Lanka
Training cohort countries represent leaders who traveled to participate in TNG-supported training; they do not indicate in-country TNG field work.
From Broad Experience to Strategic Focus.
Our experience alongside ministry leaders across diverse countries and cultures has shaped a clear conviction: lasting Gospel multiplication grows through trusted local leaders who understand their own communities.
Today, we concentrate our resources in the 10/40 Window, with primary work in Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. We provide training, coaching, and strategic support to help indigenous leaders make disciples, develop others, and multiply healthy churches. Future partnerships will be guided by trusted relationships, limited access to the Gospel, and the potential for locally led multiplication.
OUR STORY
Our goal is not simply to work in more places, but to invest deeply where trusted local leaders can multiply the Gospel through their own communities.
Investing in Indigenous Leadership
We believe lasting ministry is strongest when it is led by people who already know the language, culture, relationships, and challenges of the communities they serve.
Taking New Ground comes alongside trusted indigenous leaders with training, coaching, prayer, strategic resources, and financial partnership. The goal is not to replace local leadership, but to strengthen it—helping leaders make disciples, develop others, and multiply churches from one community to the next.
WHAT GUIDES OUR WORK
Principles That Shape Every Partnership
Biblical Faithfulness
We want our ministry, training, and leadership development to remain grounded in Scripture rather than personalities, trends, or imported formulas.
Indigenous Leadership
We trust leaders who already know the language, culture, relationships, and realities of the communities they serve.
Multiplication
Trusted Partnership
We look beyond individual events or short-term activity toward disciples, leaders, and churches that can reproduce from one community to the next.
Healthy ministry grows through relationship. We combine local ownership with coaching, accountability, prayer, and strategic support.
These principles shape how we choose partners, invest resources, and pursue lasting ministry in every place we serve.
HOW WE OPERATE
Built on Trust and Accountability
Taking New Ground is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to responsible stewardship of the resources entrusted to us.
Our field partnerships are built around clear ministry goals, ongoing communication, coaching, reporting, and accountability. We seek to direct resources toward practical ministry needs—training leaders, supporting travel and coaching, providing tools, and helping local teams reach communities where access to the Gospel is limited.
Just as importantly, we want financial partnership to strengthen local ownership rather than overshadow it. Our aim is to support ministry in ways that help indigenous leaders grow stronger, develop others, and carry the work forward.
Registered 501(c)(3) • Ongoing Field Reporting • Coaching & Accountability
Have questions about our ministry, financial stewardship, or partnership opportunities? We’d welcome a conversation.
Contact us at [email protected].
Meet Our Founder
Matt leads Taking New Ground with a focus on equipping indigenous leaders to make disciples, develop other leaders, and multiply healthy churches. His experience working alongside ministry leaders across countries and cultures has shaped the organization’s commitment to trusted relationships, local ownership, and lasting Gospel impact.
Today, Taking New Ground concentrates its support in Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, helping local leaders carry the Gospel into communities with limited access.
Matt Watson | Founder and Executive Director
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