Their mission is to bring together passionate Jesus followers from diverse backgrounds to dream and work together so that more people would experience the transforming love of God. Dave Gibbons, lead pastor at Newsong Church in Irvine, Calif., describes the group as "a community of friends" who are figuring out together what God is doing.

Those involved, including Gibbons, say the relatively-new network has grown organically. Many, such as Mosaic Church's Erwin McManus, Vintage Faith's Dan Kimball and National Community Church's Mark Batterson, were already friends and they decided to make their exchanges a bit more formal yet still dynamic.

"I think it's a group of people coming together who are saying 'we don't have all the answers. We really need each other," Batterson said this past weekend in Washington, D.C.

"I need Dave [Gibbons]. I need the way he thinks. I need the way that they are expressing the Gospel through missions," the NCC pastor noted. "Together the synergy that happens when we come as believers and put some of our assumptions on the table and begin to dream about what the Kingdom could look like, some amazing things begin to happen.