Beginnings
Several years ago God spoke a word over us (Roger and Brooks) that we could not comprehend:
“Your feet are going to walk on many nations and all the continents… You will plant churches… like a Johnny Appleseed dropping seeds and watering them… And many will help the vision come to pass.”
Having planted just one church in California, and finding that it was a very big project, we could not imagine how we would be involved in planting churches like Johnny Appleseed scattering seeds throughout nations.
As often happens, we had to hit a very difficult season before God could point us toward this vision and His new purposes.
After ten years of pastoring I experienced a season of intense burnout leading to a paradigm shift that would completely redefine my understanding of church and ministry. I wrote extensively about this in The Simple/House Church Revolution book.
In time, we began to see that this ‘paradigm shift’ was preparing us to train leaders in the multiplication of disciples, simple churches, and leaders. As God began to connect us with key, young leaders in developing countries, we saw tremendous fruit as disciples could quickly reproduce disciples and churches among some of the neediest people on earth.
God used a dark season of our life to birth new purposes that were far above and beyond anything we might have dreamed on our own!
You Can Help the Vision Come to Pass
This vision was never about two people but, rather, a growing family of friends throughout the world who are part of what God is doing. We are still a grassroots effort connecting people like you to unreached, poor areas of the world where disciple making movements and simple church movements can be amazingly fruitful with your help.
What You Can Do
- You can join with national leaders in East Africa who are now trained to multiply disciples and churches among the unreached.
- You can provide water filters and/or farms that open doors to the Gospel and meet critical needs in villages. These projects often lead to whole village transformation!
You are the key to this vision fulfilling its full potential and your help is urgently needed where the harvest is ripe!