Project 2025: Launch Philippines Command Center

by | Aug 22, 2025 | Get Involved, Give

Project 2025:

Philippines Command Center

Raising Native Missionaries to Reach Nations

We are pleased to share TTC’s mission project entitled “Vision 2035.” The Lord has inspired us with the goal to reach 1000 Disciple-Makers in 20 countries by 2035!

We have a three-step strategy for advancing the Disciple-Makers Movement in those 20 nations:

1. Establish a beachhead.

2. Raise up disciple-making outposts.

3. Establish a command center.

a. Launch missionary works within the nation.

b. Launch missionary works to other regional nations

VISION

2035

Raise up 1000 disciple-makers in 20 countries.

Goal: $25k

Campaign Progress:

Progress 100%
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In this special video announcement, Scott Roberts, founder of Take the Challenge International, shares with you, our TTC partners, that the Disciple-Makers groups in the Philippines are ready to launch into Step 3 of this mission’s expansion!

Making Disciples, Training Leaders, Changing Lives

Project 2025:

Launch Philippines Command Center!

 

1. Filipino DM Movement Directors

a. Wilson and Angelica Flores

> Walking together since 2017

> Annual salary (as architect) – $10,000

2. Filipino DM Movement Vehicle

a. 2016 Toyota Fortuner – $15,000

> Facilitate mission work throughout Luzon

3. Project Status

a. Funds needed: $25,000

b. Project timeline: July 1, 2025

Goal: $25k

Campaign Progress:

Progress 100%
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Partnering to raise disciple-makers in the Philippines!

by | Aug 18, 2025 | Featured, Pray

We are excited to share that Scott has been asked to kick off “Discipleship Now,” an initiative to mentor pastors so they can raise disciple-makers within their churches. The first session will be on August 25th. Many thanks to Pastor Gil Balignasay for the invitation! Pastor Gil, who leads these monthly mentoring sessions, has requested that I open his first meeting by bringing a message via Zoom. We are grateful for partnerships that lead to multiplication and growth, and the fruit that remains.

Raising Disciple Makers by Scott Roberts

The New APP is LIVE… and comes with SMS (Text) Notifications

by | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured, What's New

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Participating in Missions Has Never Been Simpler!

Introducing Our New Mobile App

Our new mobile app is a gift from our TTCI partners, provided to you for free, to help us keep you updated and engaged with our missionary teams.

Now, it is easier than ever to experience the delight of serving God by reaching others around the world with His Love and good news. In just a few short minutes and a couple of clicks on your phone or computer, you can easily participate in modern-day missionary journeys! Be a part, or be more than that!

Did you realize that just five minutes and a few simple steps to join the Take the Challenge International missions family—whether by downloading the app and praying over updates, sending any amount of financial support once or monthly, or volunteering your gifts and talents—can significantly increase your own (or your family’s) sense of fulfillment? By actively encouraging the TTCI team in any way as we raise disciple-makers, train leaders, and provide resources, you will discover a more profound sense of purpose and fulfillment.

With the new app and website updates, you can receive real-time prayer updates as the missionary teams travel, take a peek inside the challenging yet often humorous life on the mission field, and rejoice in the lives that are changed. Additionally, you can read impact reports from our latest mission trips and discover the various ways you can get involved.

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Build Your Faith, Find Your Fit, and Witness the Fruit of Your Partnership

Our new mobile app (designed for the “Disciple-Makers Movement” or DMM for short) provides a seamless platform for engaging with our missionaries and receiving real-time updates and impact reports. The DMM app also helps connect our TTCI partners! We prayed for God’s guidance in creating this tool to make it a valuable daily resource for you, our friends, family, and ministry partners. With this app, you can access resources to support your personal spiritual journey while also witnessing the impact of your support.

From audio lessons to recorded empowerment sessions from our various online groups worldwide, this app serves as the connection point for all disciples of the DMM (Disciple-Makers Movement). The app helps us equip each nation’s DMM leaders to effectively reach and establish new groups, providing powerful education, communication tools, and needed information to help them grow and prosper.

You can download the APP from the Apple APP Store, the Amazon App Store, or the Google Play Store for free (thanks to the generous gifts of our TTC financial partners). The new app enables you to stay informed, pray, and participate in our global outreach efforts with ease. (So, why not click the image below to download it right now?)

App Highlights

Explore Our App Features

Real-Time Notifications

New! Now, you can get SMS notifications for events, prayer updates, and mission reports. Short and sweet, SMS alerts are limited to 160 characters. We only send them between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

 

Interactive Engagement

 with our community, the TTCI missionaries, and Disciple-maker Groups through interactive features like an online Bible, group and team messaging, and a Prayer Request link to e connection, prayer support, and .

Mission Updates

Follow along with our teams as they spread the Good News across the globe, with detailed mission updates, prayer requests, periodic Impact Reports, our annual Missions Banquet, as well as blog articles and updates on the website throughout the year.

Resource Library

Strengthen your faith by exploring a wealth of free resources designed to support your discipleship journey and bring life to your relationships.

(This growing resource library is provided at no cost to you by the generosity of our faithful ministry partners.)

Opt-In/Opt-Out Flexibility

Choose to receive notifications via SMS, email, or both, with simple opt-in and opt-out options. (You can reply with STOP to any SMS to unsubscribe from SMS Text Notifications. Reply with Unsubscribe to be removed from email communications. Transaction receipts will still be sent to the registered email address.)

User-Friendly Interface

Navigate our app with ease, thanks to its intuitive design and user-friendly interface. This app was designed with our partners and disciple-makers groups in mind. Our heart is to provide a simple effective resource hub (the app) that will be a blessing in your every day walk with God and in your growth as disciple-makers!

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Click Here to Receive Update Notifcations by SMS (Text)

We value your connection with us, so our updates are Good News about who we are, what we do, where we go, and what's new. Oh yes, and how you can get involved as the Lord leads you! Depending on your preference, newsletter notifications are sent via email and/or SMS text messaging, along with a "read more" link. Submitting either of these forms confirms your wish to receive occasional email and/or text notifications from Take the Challenge International and its outreaches or events.

You may easily unsubscribe from either at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the correspondence received or by replying STOP to an SMS text in order to opt out of future SMS texts. (Transactional emails or texts will still be sent for purchase or donation receipts.)

“The app has transformed how we stay connected with the mission trips. The real-time updates keep us engaged and prayerful for the team’s success.”

Sarah Thompson

“Receiving SMS notifications has been so helpful! I feel more involved and informed about the exciting work being done across the globe by Take the Challenge International.”

Michelle Everett

“The updates are timely and inspiring. It’s amazing to see the impact of our prayers and support in real-time.”

Emily Rodriguez

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Three Things Everyone Should Know

by | Jun 5, 2025 | Get Involved, What's New

Greetings Praying Partners,

Summer has begun and the fields are already white to harvest! We here at Take The Challenge are working hard to position laborers to ensure that all our opportunities will be realized and disciples will be made among the nations.

To this end, we have an exciting announcement –

The Mark Phillips family will join TTC as missionaries on July 1, 2025!

 

In order to do this, Mark has quit his job as the COO of a major manufacturing company, and they are currently in the process of raising support. Visit the link in our “June Praise Reports” section below if you would like to join their support team.

Mark and Whitney Phillips, Liam and Korbin
Here’s an introduction in their own words.

“Greetings from Mark, Whitney, Liam, and Korbin Phillips. We are excited to partner with TTC as staff missionaries to help see the disciple-making movement grow and expand into new areas all throughout the world. We have a keen heart for discipling others, and this has been from the beginning for us both. As Whitney put it just a few months ago, ‘If we are not discipling others, then what are we really doing?’ The harvest is ripe, and the laborers are few. Our response to the Lord is simple, ‘Here we are, send us!’”

DM Group Leaders (“Coaches”) in the Philippines

In other news, the disciple-makers movement is truly flourishing around the world, especially in the Philippines. From its humble beginnings of three disciple-makers (DM) groups in May 2024, the Philippines DM Movement (PDMM) has grown to over 35 DM groups in just the past twelve months. We are currently in the midst of a campaign to establish a PDMM Command Center to manage and extend the movement across the Philippines and into neighboring nations. Watch this announcement for more information about how you can get involved in this momentous project.

Kenya Command Center Also on the Horizon

Finally, and Mark will leave for Africa in six weeks to encourage the disciple-makers and establish a Command Center in Kenya. In the last 15 months, the number of disciple-makers in Kenya has multiplied greatly. Currently, more than 35 of the 65 weekly DM groups there are led by disciples of the disciples of Scott’s original three disciples. That means Scott is a great-grandfather many times over in Kenya!

June Praise Reports:

1. For the incredible growth of the disciple-makers movement around the world (from 50 groups training 325 pastors weekly to 120 groups training 750 pastors weekly in the last 18 months).
2. For raising up the Phillips family to be laborers in the global disciple- makers movement. Contact us or visit our eGive portal to join their support team.
3. For the great number of volunteers (in the U.S. and around the world) who are giving their time, talent, and treasure to help us reach nations for disciple-making.

June Prayer Requests:

1. God to bring in all the necessary funds to establish the PDMM Command Center in the Philippines by July 1, 2025. (So far we have raised $8.5K of the $25K needed.)
2. Wisdom in restructuring our Kenya national leadership to allow us to establish the KDMM as a self-sustaining, missionary-sending organization that will reach East Africa and beyond!
3. Grace for Scott to manage all the growing pains associated with the exponential growth of disciple-makers. = )
Thank you so much!

With your help we are…

Raising Disciple-Makers,
Scott and the TTC team