NOVEMBER 2023
UNLEASHED
Celebrating How Your
Support Is Releasing
The People Of God And The
Power Of God
INSIDE…
YOU’RE HELPING THE DEAF “HEAR” GOD
THANK YOU FOR REFLECTING GOD’S LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
‘HOW WILL YOU OBEY, AND WITH WHOM WILL YOU SHARE?’
A WORD FROM HARRY
YOU’RE HELPING THE DEAF “HEAR” GOD
Edi is a believer from Francophone Central Africa, and she’d always had a special place in her heart for deaf people. But how could she reach them? By taking sign language, of course! Edi became trained in sign language, and this helped her “speak” deaf people’s language and better understand their worldview.
After going through a Discovery Bible Study (DBS), Edi saw that it would be an incredible tool to make her ministry among her deaf friends even more fruitful. So Edi then trained her husband and their 14-year-old daughter to use sign language to start DBSs among deaf people!
Edi and her family have started 12 DBSs in the past 3 years with an average of eight members each. They also planted a church in the city that serves as the Equipping Center for Deaf Disciple Making Movement (DMM) practitioners. A second church is about to be planted in the city, and many more DBSs are springing up. People are “hearing” God’s Word because of Edi’s passion! Edi recently shared that her dream is to catalyze a movement among deaf people in every major city of Cameroon, with the hope that these will equip Disciple Making Movements catalysts across the country. Her team is also working on a DBS video clip in sign language for deaf people.
Edi’s story proves that God can use ordinary people to do the extraordinary when they are empowered by His Spirit and supported by his people—people like you! Thank you for your continued gifts and prayers, which God uses to help so many deaf people across Africa “hear” Him.
Edi’s story proves that God can use ordinary people to do the extraordinary when they are empowered by His Spirit and supported by his people—people like you!
THANK YOU FOR REFLECTING GOD’S LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
God is using you in many ways and places, including Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. For over 18 years, faithful and obedient disciples have been used by God to reflect His light in areas that previously knew only darkness.
By His grace and through your support, New Generations teams have facilitated 199 movements
reaching the DMM threshold of 100 or more churches to the fourth or greater generation since our beginning. Of those, 153 are in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 58 of these have reproduced to 10 generations or more.
To date, in 2023, our teams in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia counted 236,158 new Christ-followers in
15,288 churches, with 1,941 churches arising among Muslim peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa. We’re also tracking 13 DMMs in 2023: 1 in South Asia and 12 in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have tracked a lifetime global total of 123,004 DMM Churches and 2,515,073 DMM Disciples. To God be the glory!
‘HOW WILL YOU OBEY, AND WITH WHOM WILL YOU SHARE?’
God is using you in many ways and places, including Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. For over 18 years, faithful and obedient disciples have been used by God to reflect His light in areas that previously knew only darkness.
By His grace and through your support, New Generations teams have facilitated 199 movements reaching the DMM threshold of 100 or more churches to the fourth or greater generation since our beginning. Of those, 153 are in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 58 of these have reproduced to 10 generations or more.
To date, in 2023, our teams in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia counted 236,158 new Christ-followers in 15,288 churches, with 1,941 churches arising among Muslim peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa. We’re also tracking 13 DMMs in 2023: 1 in South Asia and 12 in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have tracked a lifetime global total of 123,004 DMM Churches and 2,515,073 DMM Disciples. To God be the glory!
A WORD FROM HARRY
The Book of Acts is the story of the early church’s explosive growth and rapid expansion of the early church. On the “birthday” of the church, 3,000 people became followers of Jesus. In a matter of days, that number grew to 5,000!
But that was only the beginning of the story. As the narrative unfolds, time after time, you read about how the Kingdom of God was established in new places with large numbers and often despite severe persecution.
I was curious to see how often this happened, so I re-read the book of Acts and found 27 times when the Spirit of God caused rapid growth among new people in new places. I would say that constitutes a pattern!
As you read this inaugural edition of Unleashed, you are, in effect, reading the next chapter of Acts. God is doing what He did before. Thousands of new churches are springing up in difficult places through the work of ordinary people—people like you, me, heads of corporations, and presidents of nations.
After all, every segment of society needs the gospel, and who are the ordinary people in the network of presidents? Other presidents!
So, thank you for your faithful support, both through your prayers and gifts. God has used your generosity to catalyze the birth of 123,004 churches in New Generation’s lifetime.
To him be the glory, and stay tuned as your support keeps the trend going!
Blessings,
Harry Brown
President