OVERVIEW
Below you will find an overview of the people God has raised up to lead New Generations. They are broken down into four groups: Our Board, International Leadership, Support Services, and DMM North America. You can learn more about each leader by clicking on their picture to read their bio. However, some of our leaders live in, or frequently travel to, security-sensitive regions and so we have chosen not to show their picture or use their full name to protect their identity.
BOARD
- Harry BrownPresidentHarry BrownPresident
Harry is the founder of New Generations, serves as President and sits on the Board of Directors. Harry received religious study degrees from San Jose Bible College, Prairie Bible Institute (Canada) and Pepperdine University. He also received an MBA from San Jose State. In 1995, Harry was asked by the leadership of Cityteam Ministries to launch a church planting division that ultimately became New Generations.
The vision of New Generations is to catalyze Disciple Making Movements everywhere. The scope of the ministry now spans over 940 people group engagements and has produced 123,004 new churches that encompass over 2.5 million new disciples and 199 movements by a definition of at least 100 new churches with four generations of multiplication.
Harry and his wife, Audrey, have served in full-time ministry for almost 50 years. They have two grown daughters and five grandkids.
- Roy MoranChairmanRoy MoranChairman
In 1992, Roy, his wife Candy, and a group of four others started Shoal Creek Community Church, where Roy currently serves as the directional leader and spiritual literacy advocate. Over the last 19 years, Shoal Creek has grown to over a 1000 people through reaching folks who are not used to going to church. Roy has pioneered the concept of the “Hybrid Church,” which finds the synergy between the traditional “attractional” strategy and the principles found in Disciple Making Movements. The Hybrid strategy highlights a “Come/Go” aspect that allows the gospel to move freely away from the physical space sometimes referred to as a church. Roy serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute of International Medicine and Beyond.
- Ken ChurchillSecretaryKen ChurchillSecretary
Ken Churchill founded and leads TalentED Ventures. He co-founded the Society for Just Medicine. He worked with Morgan Stanley in Silicon Valley. Ken co-founded Carpenters Code, creator of the Abide app. He serves on several boards. Ken and Shirley are blessed with eight children and three grandchildren.
- Bob HausmannTreasurerBob HausmannTreasurer
Bob Hausmann is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo, which he joined in 2016. Since April 2018, Bob has served as a member of the board of directors and a member of the audit and compensation committees of Nintex,Global Ltd., a developer of workflow automation software. Since January 2018, he has served as a member of the board of directors and a member of the audit committee of Motus, LLC, a developer of a cloud-based platform for the automation of mobile workforce activities. Since June 2017, Bob has served as a member of the board of directors and a member of the audit committee of Riskonnect, Inc., a global provider of integrated risk management technology solutions. Since September 2016, he has served as a member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee of T2 Systems, Inc., a technology-focused parking management systems provider. Bob also currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Zix Corp, where he has been an active board member since 2005.
- Denis BeausejourBoard MemberDenis BeausejourBoard Member
Denis is a native of Canada where he attended Queen’s University School of Business. In a 22-year career, he served in executive leadership at Procter & Gamble in five countries, most recently as Global VP of Marketing in Cincinnati. Following a call into pastoral ministry, he left P&G in 2000, graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and served as lead pastor of Mariemont Church for 18 years until 2022. He has been married to his beloved Marianne for 42 years and has four adult children and 10 grandchildren.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- Younoussa DjaoField Team DirectorYounoussa DjaoField Team Director
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)
- Bertilo JohnsonAnglophone West Africa and North Africa Regional DirectorBertilo JohnsonAnglophone West Africa and North Africa Regional Director
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.
- Aila TasseEast Africa & Southern Africa Regional DirectorAila TasseEast Africa & Southern Africa Regional Director
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.
- Steven & Joy SteinhausSoutheast Asia Regional Director & DMM Catalysts for North AmericaSteven & Joy SteinhausSoutheast Asia Regional Director & DMM Catalysts for North America
Steven & Joy Steinhaus are passionate followers of Christ who have been in ministry to Muslims for about 30-years. They moved overseas in 1990 initially to serve two-years in a Muslim context with Frontiers then returned home and attended seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), going back to the mission field in 1995 with Pioneers. During the following 19-years, Steven & Joy lead teams among Muslim UPGs in SEAsia, but they saw little fruit until they began to implement a DMM strategy in 2009. This led to a broader ministry of DMM training and coaching around the Muslim world. Steven completed a Doctor of Ministry degree at TEDS in 2017 on the topic of developing Ephesus Teams in global cities for gospel movements and Joy holds Master’s degrees in both Theology and Marriage & Family Therapy. Steven & Joy joined New Generations in 2019 and serve out of Chicagoland as DMM Practitioner-Trainers with a special focus on catalyzing and cultivating Disciple Making Movements among Muslims glocally. They are blessed with four adult children.
- Thierry BossengaCentral Africa Regional DirectorThierry BossengaCentral Africa Regional Director
Thierry Bossenga is the Regional Coordinator for Francophone Central Africa, where he oversees fourteen Disciple Making Movements. He has facilitated the launching of 8490 new churches in Francophone Central Africa. With a Master of Theology degree from the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology, he has served as an Assistant Pastor and a regional director for church planting. In 2008 he joined CityTeam, where he served as a Strategy Coordinator. In 2012 he became the Regional Coordinator. Thierry is married to Corine and has three daughters.
- Shalom JoshuaHorn of Africa Regional DirectorShalom JoshuaHorn of Africa Regional Director
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. - Barnabas SamuelSouth Asia Regional DirectorBarnabas SamuelSouth Asia Regional Director
Our Regional Director has been involved in South Asia for more than 25 years, 10 of those years involved in the DMM approach. He is devoted to seeing wholistic Christ-ward movements established in every country and community of the region. He trains Christ followers in strategy, research, networking and communication. His current work involves various networks in the region, with more than 300 independent entities committed to receiving and implementing training and coaching in DMM. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from a major Liberal Arts College and he has received an honorary Masters degree from an offshore institution in recognition of 20+ years of involvement in wholistic health across more than 50 nations worldwide. He is married and has one married daughter with two grand-children.
- David BroodrykUrban Regional DirectorDavid BroodrykUrban Regional Director
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.
DMM NORTH AMERICA
Our North American team is dedicated to catalyzing movements specifically in North America.
Visit our New Generations North America webpage to learn more.
- Roy MoranNorth America Regional DirectorRoy MoranNorth America Regional Director
The theme of Roy’s life can be described as “an addiction to creating Disciple Making Movements (DMM)”. In the past five years, he has traveled the world studying the great movements of the gospel in Indonesia, India, Africa, South America, and Europe. These travels have lead to the development of a Hybrid Strategy at Shoal Creek and the dedication to see movements of disciple making in the US begin out of Kansas City.
- Jeff CrabtreeRocky Mountain Area CoordinatorJeff CrabtreeRocky Mountain Area Coordinator
Jeff is a passionate Kingdom leader who has served in full-time ministry for over 4 decades. He has served in various ministry capacities over the years – Youth Pastor, Senior Leader, Co-Pastor Denominational President, International Developer, National Consulate, and Church Planter. Jeff’s background has given him the opportunity to provide wisdom and catalytic leadership development in numerous areas of Kingdom Ministry. He currently is the Founder/Senior Leader of Connections Church of Fort Collins, Colorado, a Church he planted in 2013.
Jeff was exposed to DMM in 2017 and since that time has committed to transitioning his local Church to a DMM focus. He has also begun networking in North America to catalyze Movements, especially among Pastors and Local Congregations.
Jeff and his wife Kathy reside in Fort Collins, Colorado, and have 3 adult children. Jeff is inspired and encouraged to be working with New Generations! - David and Lissa HinmanSouthwest Area CoordinatorDavid and Lissa HinmanSouthwest Area Coordinator
David has been in pastoral ministry for 30 years. During that time, he worked on staff at several significant churches in the Phoenix area and planted a congregation that grew to over 1000 people in eight years.
Having being exposed to Disciple Making Movements (DMM), through CityTeam, in San Jose, California, David has spent the last four years training, coaching and working to catalyze movements in Arizona, Africa and parts Mexico. In 2019, David started working with New Generations North America to focus specifically on churches that are in the process of adopting a DMM approach.
David has a Master of Divinity from Regent University. He and his wife (Lissa) live in Phoenix, Arizona. They have three adult children who are all married and two grandchildren. - Tom MarshallWest Coast Area CoordinatorTom MarshallWest Coast Area Coordinator
Tom has been devoted to the study of discipleship and missions for many years. He has been teaching principles to make disciples and launch movements since 2011. He is a business owner with a career in the electronics industry, but his passion has always been to develop better ways of making disciples to fulfill the Great Commission. Tom co-founded Quest Ministries to love, mentor, and share Jesus with at-risk teens. Tom is the author of The Jesus Strategy: How Jesus Taught Followers to Carry Out His Vision. He lives with his wife in the Sierra Foothills in California. Together they have two grown children.
- Steven & Joy SteinhausSoutheast Asia Regional Director & DMM Catalysts for North AmericaSteven & Joy SteinhausSoutheast Asia Regional Director & DMM Catalysts for North America
Steven & Joy Steinhaus are passionate followers of Christ who have been in ministry to Muslims for about 30-years. They moved overseas in 1990 initially to serve two-years in a Muslim context with Frontiers then returned home and attended seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), going back to the mission field in 1995 with Pioneers. During the following 19-years, Steven & Joy lead teams among Muslim UPGs in SEAsia, but they saw little fruit until they began to implement a DMM strategy in 2009. This led to a broader ministry of DMM training and coaching around the Muslim world. Steven completed a Doctor of Ministry degree at TEDS in 2017 on the topic of developing Ephesus Teams in global cities for gospel movements and Joy holds Master’s degrees in both Theology and Marriage & Family Therapy. Steven & Joy joined New Generations in 2019 and serve out of Chicagoland as DMM Practitioner-Trainers with a special focus on catalyzing and cultivating Disciple Making Movements among Muslims glocally. They are blessed with four adult children.
- Jim and Vicki EgliCurriculum DevelopmentJim and Vicki EgliCurriculum Development
Jim is the Curriculum Coordinator for New Generations. Together with his wife Vicki, he develops training and resources for the worldwide Disciple Making Movement. It’s is Jim and Vicki’s passion to make disciples who make disciples and help launch Disciple Making Movements around the world. They are researchers and writers who have served as pastors and missionaries for 40 years. Jim has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Regent University. Vicki is working on a Doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.
- AlyssaProject ManagerAlyssaProject Manager
Alyssa works as the project manager for the North American Region of New Generations. She lives in Kansas City, Mo with her husband and three children. Growing up in the church Alyssa was able to experience the growth of Shoal Creek Community Church from the very beginning. She has, and continues to facilitate the large events at Shoal Creek in a volunteer capacity. For the last several years Alyssa has been working closely with Roy Moran (who also happens to be her father) in an administrative and project management capacity.
SUPPORT SERVICES
- Jerry TrousdaleEmeritusJerry TrousdaleEmeritus
Jerry Trousdale has been a missionary among a Muslim people group in Africa and a long-term student of missions. He also has a background in Christian publishing and broadcasting. Jerry pastored mission-sending churches in California and Tennessee. In 2002, he co-founded Final Command Ministries to facilitate the launch of Disciple Making Movements among Muslim people groups in Africa.
In 2005, he and other members of that organization became part of New Generations (formerly CityTeam Ministries) which provides training in obedience-based discipleship models to hundreds of ministries globally. He now serves as Director of International Ministries at New Generations which has catalyzed the planting of thousands of Muslim background churches throughout dozens of different Muslim peoples since 2005.
He is the author of Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus
The sequel The Kingdom Unleashed was published in the Spring of 2018.
He and his wife Gayle live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- Cory HartmanGlobal Voice DeveloperCory HartmanGlobal Voice Developer
Cory’s role is to mine, define, and refine the DMM expertise of the New Generations team and write it for a global audience. He is an author and collaborator on multiple books on church leadership, including Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth. Cory previously co-designed consulting and training processes with the Future Church Co. and served for 13 years as a pastor in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He earned DMin and MDiv degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Raised in central New York State, Cory now lives in central Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Kelly, have four children.
- Dave HuntEmeritusDave HuntEmeritus
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. - Heidi MillerAdministrationHeidi MillerAdministration
Heidi has a background in administration and bookkeeping. She has worked in both for-profit and non-profit businesses in construction, business consulting, women’s fitness, and a group home for disabled children. She is married with three adult children.
- JasonDirector of OperationsJasonDirector of Operations
Jason joined the team in September of 2016, bringing with him a strong background in missions, operations, and nonprofit management. His arrival came six months before the board of our previous organization voted to launch the International Division as a separate nonprofit. To free up the rest of the team to remain focused on their areas of responsibility, Jason spearheaded the efforts toward launching the back-office functions of New Generations. Jason has a degree in Organization Management, with an emphasis in Christian Leadership from Colorado Christian University. He loves helping great leaders execute on their vision. Before working with New Generations, Jason has helped other global nonprofits, mega-churches, universities, and Fortune 50 businesses expand or develop their global efforts. Married to Sheila for over 25 years, they have three adult children.
- Heidi CorleyMarketing & Communications CoordinatorHeidi CorleyMarketing & Communications Coordinator
Heidi joined the New Generations team in January of 2023. She came with a strong background in Creative Marketing, Graphic Design and Event Coordinating in the Corporate world. Heidi has a degree in Communications with a minor in Graphic Design from Judson University. She loves people, travel, being creative, baking, cooking, anything athletic and getting active outdoors. In her free time, she also loves to work on Photography and Graphic Design freelance projects. Her and her husband, Jesse, live in Seattle, Washington.
- Sharon de la CruzDevelopment OfficerSharon de la CruzDevelopment Officer
Sharon cultivates relationships with people who are passionate about the Great Commission, inviting them to generously support discipleship making movements globally with New Generations. She connects the desire of people to see God's kingdom grow with the amazing work God is doing. She has devoted her time to discipleship, hosting small groups and leading a church deaconess team. As a long-time supporter of New Generations, Sharon is continuing to devote her heart to the ministry. With 25 years of business development and marketing leadership in the commercial construction space, Sharon is redirecting her experience for the kingdom. She lives with her husband, Jose, in McKinney, TX and together they have two grown children.
SHEPHERDING SUPPORT TEAM
Our Shepherding Support Team is dedicated to evaluating both quantitative and qualitative data
to make sure the replication process of disciples making disciples is sustainable.
- L. MichaelTeam Lead of Shepherding Support TeamL. MichaelTeam Lead of Shepherding Support Team
L. Michael grew up in a Christian home and began to follow Jesus at an early age. As a teen he sensed God’s call to serve cross-culturally. He led teams in the Russian speaking parts of Eastern Europe. Then served as a regional leader with another organization before becoming the Director of Strategic Advancement and Evaluation with New Generations.
He and his wife, met in college through sports, have 4 adult children and live in the greater Chicagoland area.
- LouiseAnalyst of the Shepherding Support TeamLouiseAnalyst of the Shepherding Support Team
Raised in the US by Christian parents, as a child Louise was frequently exposed to the world of missions when her father would return from 6-week medical mission trips and share photos and stories with his children of impoverished and spiritually needy people from other parts of the world. She experienced poverty and spiritual need firsthand when she helped her father and mother on a medical mission trip to Haiti while she was still in college. While completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology, she married and began a family.
Drawn to African refugees resettling in the US, she and her husband began to help them acclimate to life in America. Then in 2009 she joined what was Cityteam, as assistant to the Director of International Ministries, Jerry Trousdale. Later she began to manage the global church planting data submitted by New Generations' teams and partners, a role which she continues to this day. Each quarter she is amazed at God's faithfulness as He ushers thousands into his Kingdom from around the world through Disciple Making Movements.
Louise and her husband have 4 adult children, two sons-in-law and 2 grandchildren. In their spare time they dig in the dirt growing organic fruits and vegetables.
- AahvaEvaluation Coach of South AsiaAahvaEvaluation Coach of South Asia
Aahva has a business creating resources for educators. He has a long history of supporting cross-cultural work on the subcontinent. He loves Jesus and has a burden to help movement catalysts reach out cross-culturally.
He serves as an Evaluation Coach for South Asia and supports those who measure quality, quantity, and sustainability markers in the South Asia region.
He and his wife are raising two teens (well one is still a pre-teen but can be like a teen at times).
- HassanEvaluation Coach of Eastern AfricaHassanEvaluation Coach of Eastern Africa
Hassan grew up in a family of the majority religion of his region in East Africa. He decided to follow Jesus in 2006 despite harassment of family and friends. Eventually he saw people from his family and tribe have their lives transformed. He served for several years as a “Shepherding Insight Coach”(SICs) and then in January of 2022 he began to serve on the Global Shepherding Support Team to support, encourage and develop the other SICs in Eastern Africa as an Evaluation Coach.
He is married and has two children, a girl, and a boy. They live in an Urban area of East Africa but have an impact across many of our regions.