Today we have all KINDS of good news along with tremendous opportunities to expand the disciple-making movement in both Asia and Africa. Buckle up; here we go!
In just two weeks Scott will begin a five-week mission trip, first to the Philippines and then on to Morocco.
For the past six months Scott and our Filipino leadership team have been leading and training 20 Filipino ministry couples who all live in different areas throughout the northern Philippines. A major focus of this trip will be for Scott and the local leaders to travel to nine of those key cities to launch the disciple-making (DM) movement in each area. In each of those nine locations, they’ll hold a DM seminar, and then the already-trained ministry couples will lead the new groups being formed. This is really exciting!
All told, our Filipino national directors, Wilson and Angelica, are currently administrating 85 disciple-makers (DM) groups in their nation. Wow! In each region, they have key people whom they have discipled, and these “pillars” mentor, train, and oversee the individual “coaches” who are leading each of those 85 groups. During this trip, all of those coaches and pillars will gather together in a central location for an amazing summit where they will receive encouragement, ongoing training, and motivation to grow personally and effectively disciple others. It will be a very exciting summit!
Also, during this trip our Filipino team will be joined by a ministry couple from China, who are coming there to attend the DM seminars and experience the process firsthand. The husband has already translated the Raising Disciple-Makers book into simplified Chinese, and we are praying for them to be able to get it printed and into the hands of many believers in their homeland. What an exciting opportunity!
Then Scott will travel to Morocco, a 99.6% Muslim nation of more than 38 million people. He and team members Judah and Jenni have been training two groups of disciple-makers there for the past five months, and the three of them will be on the ground to help launch the disciple-making movement in Morocco in late May, with a Saturday meeting in one city and a Sunday meeting in another. This is super exciting!
And if all that were not enough, just this week Scott had a wonderful opportunity to share the disciple-making process with some 25 pastors and church leaders who were gathered in Kansas for their annual regional conference. Several are interested in learning more, and TTC received a significant offering which will cover half the expense of sending our Kenya international director to Niger, West Africa to help launch the DM movement there! But that’s another story for another day.
Exciting Praise Reports:
Great favor and amazing connections with various organizations for future partnership and expansion.
Groundwork being laid for bringing the disciple-making movement to Niger, Peru, Columbia, and more.
Wonderful co-workers of many nationalities working together with one heart and mind to grow God’s kingdom.
Specific Prayer Requests:
God’s provision for getting the Chinese Raising Disciple-Makers book printed and into the hands of many believers there.
Wisdom and connection with the right people to launch the DM process in Niger.
All the necessary prep and details to come together for the launching of many new DM groups in the Philippines.
We greatly appreciate your prayers and support. Your faith is making a difference and enabling more and more disciple-makers to be made around the world. THANK YOU!
Today we are sharing a testimony of one of the DMM pastors from the Philippines, Pastor Chris, whose personal life and church ministry have both been transformed by the process of intentional discipleship Take the Challenge uses in all our disciple-makers groups.
He says, “Personally, intentional discipleship has made me become more responsible and intentional in my daily devotion and prayer life, and I have learned that spiritual growth does not happen accidentally—it happens when we allow ourselves to be consistently shaped by God through His Word, prayer, and accountability.
“As a pastor, intentional discipleship has also changed the way I see ministry. Before, I was sometimes content with simply having church attendees or church workers. But now, I am beginning to see not just leaders in the church, but true disciples who can also disciple others. It reminds me that the mission of the church is not only to gather people, but to grow people—so they can become mature followers of Christ [who] help others follow Him too.
Pastor Chris’ DM group
“In our church, I can clearly see many improvements in those who are under intentional discipleship. They are becoming more hungry and interested in studying the Word of God. Some who used to be quiet and not very expressive are now more confident because of the regular interaction, sharing, and encouragement within the discipleship process. Others have started building a daily devotional life, and many have become more committed, faithful, and involved in our church’s ministries.
Pastor Chris with his transformed disciple-makers!
“Intentional discipleship is not only producing activity—it is producing transformation. It is helping shape believers into disciples, and disciples into disciple-makers who are building a stronger future for the Kingdom of God.
“That’s my testimony, and To God be All the Glory!”
God’s Spirit is moving powerfully through Take the Challenge’s Disciple-Making movement (DMM) in several parts of the world, including Kenya, east Africa, where the KDMM is currently “planting trees” for major expansion.
The 30 new DM pastors under Bishop Wycliff’s leadership are growing as they meet weekly with our local team. On Thursday morning, Scott had an opportunity to personally speak to them and explain to them the vision for the Global DMM. In August, our team in Kenya will travel to the locations below (marked with red pins) to raise up new DM Outposts which will be led by those 30 pastors being trained right now. This will allow us to expand the Kenya DMM to saturate the nation with disciple-makers as we make Jesus’ last command our first priority.
Missionary James now has his new ministry car, which he will use to travel all over the country as he oversees our existing DM coaches and hosts vision-casting meetings for new groups. He is very excited that he will no longer have to travel by bus, motorcycle, and other public means. Thanks to all who gave!
Pastor James in his new car
Praise Reports:
Pastor James’ new ministry car. Thank you, partners, and thank you, God!
Successful elections in Nepal with no violence.
New God-connections between TTC and several missions organizations.
Prayer Requests:
God’s continued provision to walk through all the new doors of ministry before us.
God to give us ongoing wisdom regarding various partnerships and opportunities before us.
Grace for Rev. Hillary and his wife, Joyce, (two of our core leaders in Kenya) as they take care of Hillary’s father, Charles, who has had a stroke and is not able to move.
Thank you for joining your faith with ours as we keep raising disciple-makers around the world!
Today we have a great testimony of how God is changing lives in Niger, West Africa through the TTC disciple-making process.
Emiline and her husband were desperate. The doctor had told them that their newborn daughter Elisabeth’s skull was locked in place and was not allowing her developing brain to grow. Their pastor, Habibou (Hah-BEE-boo”), shared this prayer request with our Monday disciple-makers group, and we all prayed for baby Elisabeth. During our weekly meeting two weeks later, Pastor Habibou introduced us to a smiling Emiline holding her daughter Elisabeth. God had miraculously and graciously loosed Elisabeth’s skull, proving again to the people of that 98% Muslim nation that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the only true God. Praise the Lord!
Pastor Habibou with Lompo, Emiline, and baby Elisabeth
The impact of the disciple-makers movement on Pastor Habibou and his church is great. Click [here] to listen to his testimony.
In addition to leading a disciple-makers (DM) group in his church, Pastor Habibou is now leading the first ever French-speaking (DM) group with five pastors from Niger! This group includes two pastors from the Hausa (“HOUSE-uh”)-speaking region of Maradi (“mah-RAH-dee”) in central Niger. Pray for us as we complete the Hausa translation of the Pressing Toward the Mark discipleship workbooks and the Raising Disciple-Makers book.
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Praise Reports:
Kenya Command Center is fully funded. HOORAY and praise God!
Healing of baby Elisabeth. She is now sitting up, playing, and enjoying life!
Successful launch of the first French-speaking disciple-makers group.
Prayer Requests:
God connections with Latin American missionaries.
Strength and health for Pastor Gil in the Philippines.
Peace during Nepal’s upcoming elections (March 5th); upright and qualified leaders to be put in office.
Thank you for partnering with us as we raise disciple-makers in West Africa, Kenya, the Philippines, Nepal, and beyond!
Today we have updates on TTC’s ministry in Nepal (South Asia) and Kenya (eastern Africa).
Nepal – The disciple-making ministry in western Nepal is really flourishing. For the past nine months, Pastor Samuel has been leading a group of six Nepali pastors through the disciple-making process.
Pastor Samuel leading six pastors who are now DM coaches!
The pastors all live in distant villages, and Samuel rides his motorcycle for two to four hours one-way to visit a different pastor each week to encourage them. All six of those pastors have now launched their own Nepali language DM groups, and we expect the people in those groups to follow their coaches’ example!
Please pray for safe and fair elections on March 5th, when Nepal will hold elections for all 275 members of the Nepali parliament. The government was dissolved in September 2025, so this election is very important for Nepal’s future.
Kenya – Bishop Wycliff leads a denomination of churches in Kenya, and he has asked Pastor James, one of our Kenya National Directors, to train all 30 of his pastors in the disciple-making process, so they can use the DM process to raise disciple-makers in their churches and communities. This week we are launching three online DM groups to begin that training. Then, in six months, we plan to travel to the hometowns of each of these 30 pastors and launch DM groups for pastors in their areas.
Our Kenya team has a call from God to expand the disciple-making process throughout Kenya and into surrounding African nations. This expansion in training Bishop Wycliff’s pastors aligns with the Kenya DM Movement (KDMM) Vision 2030 to raise a strong DM Outpost in each of Kenya’s eight provinces.
Bishop Wycliff’s pastors at Pastor James’ (yellow shirt) vision-casting session
Praise Reports:
Great expansion of the Kenya Disciple-Makers Movement.
Addition of Pastor James as a TTC Staff Missionary in Kenya.
Completed translation of Pressing Toward the Mark, Volume 1 in Spanish.
Prayer Requests:
God to open doors for TTC in Latin America.
New West African, French-language Disciple-Makers group to flourish.
Peace during Nepal’s upcoming elections; upright and qualified leaders to be put in office.
Thank you for partnering with us as we raise disciple-makers in Nepal, Kenya, West Africa, and beyond!
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