News Updates from the GCA Team
El Salvador and Honduras
Here's a picture of one of the trainings on a recent trip through El Salvador and Honduras. Nate and Chris traveled with Tom Elie, president of Oasis World Ministries, on this one. Over 700 believers were trained and more than 300 people put their faith in Jesus during outreach application times.
Weekly Global Zoom Training
Both Steve Shadrach and Tom Elie were guest instructors in the training pictured above. Believers from Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, India, Jordan, Martinique, Namibia, Pakistan, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, UAE, and the USA have been been involved in this weekly training time, with the majority of the participants coming from India, Bhutan, Uganda, and Cameroon. This has been going for most of the year and it is very exciting.
8,500 trained & 2,000 new believers in 27 countries!
Here is a picture from a recent outreach time in Uganda. Two participants at a recent Exponential Harvest training are sharing the gospel with a woman and child at the marketplace. In the first three years of the GCA's existence, more than 8,500 believers have been trained and more than 2,000 have trusted Christ in 27 countries.
Trainings and a free new e-book!
Some of the Cameroonian leaders we have trained did our Exponential Harvest training in Doula recently (pictured above). 200 pastors and leaders were trained and 163 people came to Christ in the outreach time during the two days! Another Cameroonian conference is scheduled soon.
We are continuing to train a group of pastors and leaders in S. Asia every week. It has been a wonderful few months with this group. After teaching through our Exponential Harvest training, we have continued with the Pastoral Epistles, principles of counseling, hermeneutics, and more.
Our team also just completed a short and encouraging book titled Contagious Faith: 10 Keys to Living out your Faith in a Pandemic. You can get a free digital copy of that here. We hope this little book encourages you to share your faith boldly during these times of uncertainty!
As always, we continue posting new video content daily. You can get all of our videos on our YouTube channel here.
We are continuing to train a group of pastors and leaders in S. Asia every week. It has been a wonderful few months with this group. After teaching through our Exponential Harvest training, we have continued with the Pastoral Epistles, principles of counseling, hermeneutics, and more.
Our team also just completed a short and encouraging book titled Contagious Faith: 10 Keys to Living out your Faith in a Pandemic. You can get a free digital copy of that here. We hope this little book encourages you to share your faith boldly during these times of uncertainty!
As always, we continue posting new video content daily. You can get all of our videos on our YouTube channel here.
One Minute Witness Bootcamp
We recently partnered with Oasis World Ministries for a national evangelism training conference and outreach time. Our team led the livestream for the event. You can see a short summary of the One Minute Witness, one of the main parts of the training, above! Of course, if you haven't yet subscribed to our YouTube channel, please do that!
The Year 2020
It’s been a busy season of ministry here at the GCA. We’ve also had some personal highlights. One of our team members, Philip, just got married! Here is a quick summary of some of what we’ve been working on as a team.
Before COVID, we had trained around 7,500 believers in 25 countries on evangelism, discipleship, and Great Commission ministry, in just over two years. Although the pandemic has grounded us, we’ve continued doing weekly virtual trainings with leaders around the world. The picture above is from a recent training with leaders in a persecuted country (which is why their faces are blurred).
We’ve also been raising money and helping to support many of our global partners who have been hurt by the pandemic. Many of their countries have been impacted severely and many of them are having trouble getting their basic necessities. Thank you for helping us help them.
We’ve also been working on new resources and updating old ones. We just finished a massive update of our BEST FACTS apologetics workbook. That’s available here. We also have our new BEST FACTS tract for skeptics and free video series that go with it as well.
Talking about videos, we launched our new YouTube channel in March and already have more than 200 new videos uploaded. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. We think you’ll love the Great Commission Alliance Media channel on YouTube.
Well, that’s it for now! Thanks for you support of this ministry! Thank you for helping us multiply Christ-like multipliers until the Great Commission is completed!
Before COVID, we had trained around 7,500 believers in 25 countries on evangelism, discipleship, and Great Commission ministry, in just over two years. Although the pandemic has grounded us, we’ve continued doing weekly virtual trainings with leaders around the world. The picture above is from a recent training with leaders in a persecuted country (which is why their faces are blurred).
We’ve also been raising money and helping to support many of our global partners who have been hurt by the pandemic. Many of their countries have been impacted severely and many of them are having trouble getting their basic necessities. Thank you for helping us help them.
We’ve also been working on new resources and updating old ones. We just finished a massive update of our BEST FACTS apologetics workbook. That’s available here. We also have our new BEST FACTS tract for skeptics and free video series that go with it as well.
Talking about videos, we launched our new YouTube channel in March and already have more than 200 new videos uploaded. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. We think you’ll love the Great Commission Alliance Media channel on YouTube.
Well, that’s it for now! Thanks for you support of this ministry! Thank you for helping us multiply Christ-like multipliers until the Great Commission is completed!
What's been happening over the last 2 years.
It is hard to believe all that God has done in the past 2 years of the existence of the GCA. He has been so faithful in helping us reach the world for Him and train others to do the same. Since the start of the GCA in January of 2018, our team, by God's grace, has been able to train believers in 24 countries in the regions pictured above. In these countries we have been blessed to train more than 7,000 leaders! When we train pastors and leaders we not only teach them how to share their faith and do discipleship, but we also put a big emphasis on multiplication of both. We want to go on trips that make an eternal impact, but we know the importance spiritual multiplication has had in our own lives. We have a desire to multiply Chris-like multipliers for the Great Commission. So, when our team goes abroad or even on domestic trips, we make sure that the leaders we are training are also equipped to train their congregations or those around them. This is strategic because the local leaders overseas know their culture better than we do, and the languages better that we do and therefore, once trained in evangelism and discipleship, can better replicate the process with their communities.
On a side note, we've also over doubled our staff since the start of GCA. We now have 15 wonderful staff members, the newest being Tabitha and Russell Baker who joined us the end of the summer!
It is amazing all that God has done through our team in the short 2 years of the GCA. Thank you for your prayers and support for our ministry!
On a side note, we've also over doubled our staff since the start of GCA. We now have 15 wonderful staff members, the newest being Tabitha and Russell Baker who joined us the end of the summer!
It is amazing all that God has done through our team in the short 2 years of the GCA. Thank you for your prayers and support for our ministry!
2018 Recap
We wanted to encourage you with what God has done in and through the GCA over the past year. In a little over a year we were able to partner with 20 ministries and churches in 17 different countries! This led to 4,000 people trained in discipleship and evangelism and over 1,000 decisions to trust Christ. God also grew our team. We started in January with 6 staff members and we are going into 2019 with 13!
Africa Bound
The team above is leaving for Africa in less than a week! Chris, Nate, Philip, and Ben will be training around 1,000 pastors and leaders in discipleship and evangelism. They will be in Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Uganda for around two and a half weeks. Please pray for safe travels and that they would be an encouragement to our brothers and sisters in Africa.
They're almost at their goal for the trip cost. If you would like to make a one time donation to help cover the trip costs you can follow the button below.
They're almost at their goal for the trip cost. If you would like to make a one time donation to help cover the trip costs you can follow the button below.
New Discipleship Resource
Tools are very important as they can catalyze effective evangelism and discipleship. Our BEST FACTS apologetics tool has been a great resource and it is part of the developing GCA discipleship curriculum. Our Great Commission Leadership workbook and 101 Easy, Effective, and Exciting Evangelism Ideas book are other key resources for this ministry as well. Today we received word that our newest resource, which will actually be the starting workbook in the GCA discipleship curriculum, is now available on Amazon as well.
Following Jesus: Discipleship Essentials is a resource designed to help a younger believer get a firm foundation in the key principles of our faith! It is also a tool that enables more mature Christians to disciple younger believers. This tool was developed based on the content in MPM's discipleship packet and we are so thankful for the way this packet was used for so many years.
Following Jesus: Discipleship Essentials is a resource designed to help a younger believer get a firm foundation in the key principles of our faith! It is also a tool that enables more mature Christians to disciple younger believers. This tool was developed based on the content in MPM's discipleship packet and we are so thankful for the way this packet was used for so many years.
Myanmar and Trainings
"Myanmar! A country full of wonderful people, beautiful smiles, amazing scenery, incredible flowers, tasty foods, fun games, exciting wildlife, and so much more!"
-Nate Herbst
In May of 2018, team member, Nate Herbst traveled to Myanmar to train pastors and church leaders in discipleship and evangelism. Thank you for praying for this trip.
We partnered with 13 organizations in 9 different countries which resulted in 2700 people trained to better do the Great Commission and 900 decisions for Christ.
We partnered with 13 organizations in 9 different countries which resulted in 2700 people trained to better do the Great Commission and 900 decisions for Christ.
