About TURNAROUND
“God’s NEW PARADIGM is here and now. Just turnaround, change your perspective. We can live in a new way. Trust that this is good news.”
JEsus of Nazareth
The HOPE We Envision
Our vision is simple: people learning to live into Jesus’s boundary-shattering model to proliferate the number of places and relationships of spiritual meaning in the world so that God’s dream of love, hope, peace, compassion, inclusion, and justice is experienced everywhere.
Turnaround Collective aims to bring Jesus’s of transformative message into our world, into our time, into our contexts. We invite individuals to live into this message through vocational discernment, spiritual meaning-making, and intentional relationships, and the ancient practice of pilgrimage.
We can build this world together if we are intentional about seeking it. This is why we go on pilgrimage—to learn how we might build bridges into the world to increase conversations about, invitations to, and experiments with practices that lead to God’s good news vision.
The Way We’ll Build It
Turnaround Collective creates adventurous spaces and opportunities where young adults—and those young at heart— can experience pilgrimage, explore meaning-making and vocation, and discover a practical Christian, good news spirituality.
We experiment with new spiritual formation communities for young(er) adults who want to articulate their spiritual vocations and practice the way of Jesus intentionally through relationship, conversation, and connection, especially with disenfranchised, disengaged, hurt and harmed individuals beyond the walls of our local congregations. We do this through creating opportunities for young adults to explore life’s big questions, discern vocation and calling, experience ancient practices and pilgrimage, learn the boundary-shattering relational practices of Jesus, and develop meaningful spiritual connection.
MEET OUR FOUNDER.
Brady Banks has a passion for helping others identify their vocation and locate their missional context so that they might live into an expansive and adventurous life as a follower of Jesus. He regularly invites others into experiments with the Jesus model, in which the boundary-shattering love of Jesus is practiced in radical and practical ways. Using the practices of pilgrimage, cohort-based learning, and contemplation, Brady journeys with others as they discern their gifts and vocational longings.
He was called at a young age to serve as a missionary, but following some setbacks to that call, Brady chose to serve as a local politician in Nashville and as a nonprofit executive for multiple local nonprofits until he had to come face-to-face with his struggles with addiction.
Now he witnesses to God’s presence in all things and to God’s desire to shape each and every one of us to participate in God’s transformational vision for our world.
He is a graduate of both Mercer University and Harvard Divinity School. He is currently a candidate for a Doctor of Ministry at Pacific School of Religion, a member school of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. These days you will find him teaching mostly at Forest Hills UMC, where he serves alongside his wife, Rev. Kristin Clark-Banks, and his son, Thaddeus. He serves as co-facilitator of the Turner Center for Church Leadership’s Innovation Mission Cohorts and has coached for the Center for Youth Ministry Training’s Innovation Labs in Youth Ministry.
Brady loves Nashville Soccer Club and Tennessee sports in general. If you get him talking about new wave, post-punk bands of the 80s and 90s, you’ll need to get comfortable cause he’ll talk your ears off (he may have played in a punk band in Boston). There’s no subject he won’t explore in conversation. He’s an avid reader, backcountry hiker, and never turns down an adventure or a live show.