MEET OUR TEAM

Harry is the President of New Generations and sits on the Board of Directors. Prior to founding New Generations, Harry was responsible for launching the church planting division for Cityteam International in 1996, re-envisioning the team around movements in 2005, and shepherding the vision, as the indigenous leaders catalyzed over 120 movements, encompassing 50k new churches and over 1.5 million new disciples in the next twelve years. After such exponential growth, the Board of Cityteam voted to ‘set apart’ the church planting division as of July 2018 to become a separate organization called New Generations. 

Ken Churchill hails from New England. He met his wife at Wheaton College prior to further studies at Harvard University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the University of Rhode Island. Early in his career, Ken administered both World Relief Thailand and the Christian Medical Team. After a period in East Africa, Ken worked with high tech entrepreneurs and their companies on Sand Hill Road for thirty years., There he co-created a multi-billion dollar business, as a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Management Director at Smith Barney, later acquired by Morgan Stanley.

Ken co-founded Cook Ventures, and is Principal there. He works with David C. Cook of Colorado Springs as Vice President, Business Development / Mergers & Acquisitions. He was a founding board member of Carpenters Code, maker of the Abide prayer app. People have used the app for over a billion minutes of meditation on Scripture. He has served on non-profit and for-profit boards since 1989. Ken currently serves as a director of both New Generations and the McDonald Agape Foundation. He holds positions on the advisory boards of the Fellowship of Fathers Foundation and The Signatry Southwest Region.

Ken and Shirley have eight children, two of whom are married.

Aila is the East Africa Regional Director for New Generations. Aila founded Lifeway Mission in 1994. Lifeway works among unreached people groups in Northern Kenya, Southern Ethiopia, and Somalia making Disciples and planting Churches. Since 2003, Aila has been a part of the Horn Africa Mission, which works in partnership with Lifeway, and has launched a Movement that has seen over 6,000 Churches planted and seen more than 135,000 people turn to Christ. Aila travels around the world doing DMM training, mentoring, and coaching church planters with an emphasis in the seven countries of East Africa, stretching from Sudan to Congo. Aila was born in Kenya. He is married and has two sons. He has two Masters degrees in Missions and Leadership and a Doctorate degree in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University, Seattle, WA.

God has used Bertilo to raise up over 10,000 intercessors in West Africa and thousands more globally. From March 2005 to the end of 2019, God has used him and his team to launch 24 Disciple Making Movements with over 11,000 new churches and over 500,000 new believers. They were deeply involved in responding to the Ebola crisis in West Africa. When Ebola hit, church planting virtually stopped. The church planters were re-tasked with Ebola prevention training, delivering food, burying the dead, and helping the families left behind. Communities that have never been open to the gospel before are responding. His team also runs programs in need in agriculture, medicine, education, and micro-finance. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctor of letters for his unique contributions to his home country. He is married and has seven children, 3 of whom are adopted, war orphans.

David serves as an international Disciple Making Movement strategist. He has trained and mentored leaders around the world.

David has been with our team since 2009 and also serves as the Executive Director of a Foundation in South Africa, and is working to build Disciple Making Movements in 17 countries across Southern Africa.

David and his wife Michelle live the region and have two children. They have started several churches and businesses. Currently, they are initiating a movement called Urban Expressions in the Gauteng Province - a growing metropolis of 12.5 million people containing the two inter-connected cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

In 1990 David received a graduate degree in Video Technology, has advanced training in leadership, and has been instrumental in launching of over 2500 new churches across Southern Africa.

At the age of 16, he received the Lord as his personal savior and set out to do His work in fulfilling the Great Commission. Shalom has been involved in cross-cultural missions for the last 25 years. He is the Regional Director of New Generations and also a Global trainer and coaches’ leaders around the Globe in Disciple Making Movement. Shalom is also the founder of an indigenous ministry.

Shalom and his wife are passionate about Disciple Making and Church planting that results Kingdom Movement that aims to raise disciples who are passionate for God, for people and for the Great Commission who continually grow in Christ-like attitudes, values and Kingdom-focused lifestyle and who can in turn make more disciples. 
He is married and has five children.

In his university days, Younoussa was a youth organizer. He came to faith during that time. Since 1989, he has been ministering in Sub-Saharan Africa. After a ministry of Church planting, he and his wife, earned their Master of Theology degrees and joined the staff of a missions agency, and was ordained. Younoussa holds several key positions in the African missional movements, including often serving in executive leadership positions and leading prayer movements. In 2005, he joined our team and provides training, coaching, and mentoring for Disciple Making Movements to thousands of leaders. He serves as New Generations Regional Director for Francophone West Africa. He and his wife have three children. Their vision is to see (Africa) filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakuk 2:14)

Dave and Lynn joined Cityteam in 1984 where over the next 30 years Dave served as Director of Youth Ministries, VP for Development and Expansion, and Director of Seattle operations and Lynn worked in the Human Resources department. Beginning in 1996, they hosted short-term teams to Africa every year for the next 10 years. During that time Dave was also engage with the founding a mission organization in the Horn of Africa region, serving as a charter member of the board. Dave and Lynn lived in East Africa for five years where Dave trained and coached a network of more than a hundred partner organizations that have now planted more than 10,000 new churches. Lynn conducted a ministry of rescuing high-risk babies who had little chance of survival in tough rural environments.

Returning to the US in 2009, Dave spent seven years training and developing leaders to launch Disciple Making Movements throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. In 2016, he launched the GoNorth Initiative to mobilize and deploy experienced Disciple Making Movement practitioners from the Sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa.

Dave was awarded a Doctor of Ministry degree in Transformational Leadership and Church Multiplication from Bakke Graduate University in Seattle Washington. He currently serves as a Disciple Making Movement Catalyst with NewGenerations (formerly Cityteam International). He and Lynn have five children and seven grandchildren and live in Arizona with their two youngest children – Tariku and Weyitu.