One third of our world hasn’t heard the Good News of Jesus. Yet.
Global Disciples refers to these as “least-reached” people, and fewer than 10% of all missionaries work among these groups. We live in a time where many of these people are within reach of a local church. Through our simple and effective strategy of training and coaching, believers share the Gospel in their own nations and cultures. Jesus said, “Go and make disciples of all nations,” and we’re committed to doing just that.
Global Disciples helps the church fulfill the Great Commission among least-reached people.
Our Vision
To see that every person has an opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ in a way they can understand and respond.
Our Prayer
That disciples of Jesus Christ, from many nations and vocations, will embrace this vision and do their part.
Our Mission
To make it possible for clusters of churches to multiply Christ-like disciples and locally-sustainable fellowships among least-reached people.
Our Central Focus
To equip leaders selected by their churches to multiply Christ-like disciples, who multiply churches among least-reached people.
Our Philosophy
That local expressions of the Body of Christ in close proximity to least-reached people are best able to reach them—and we all can help.
Our Values
The values guiding Global Disciples set the pattern of our relationships, integrity and ethics, how we deal with conflict, how we communicate and more.
Intimacy with Jesus.
Who we are and what we do flows from our relationship with Christ.
Trusting Relationships.
Building trust with our co-workers, partners, and donors is essential.
Risk-taking Obedience.
Obeying Christ requires the courage to risk all for our God-given mission.
Unwavering Integrity.
Being authentic, accountable, and truthful in our words and actions.
Serving with Humility.
Modelling the way of Jesus is our goal, living selflessly for God’s glory.
Transforming by Prayer.
We want our work to be conceived, birthed, and carried out in prayer.
Training in 74 Nations
Global Disciples makes it possible for the local Body of Christ in 74 nations to reach their nations. We currently have 3,475 training programs, 1,997 in Africa, 1,258 in Asia, and 220 in Latin America. Our model has proven flexible and adaptable in areas where visible Gospel activity is restricted or opposed.
Our Statement of Faith
Global Disciples serves to connect and facilitate cooperation within the global Body of Christ among clusters of churches that are engaged in discipleship, mission, and leadership training ministries and share our commitment to:
- Glorify God, the Creator and eternal Lord of the universe
- Exalt the only Savior and risen Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son
- Rely on the Holy Spirit to teach, convict, comfort and empower
- Accept the Bible as the divinely inspired, authoritative Word of God
- Demonstrate love for those in the church, the Body of Christ
- Show love for those without Christ through lives of compassionate service, righteous living, and evangelism
- Celebrate the sanctity of human life from conception to death, understanding we are created male and female, in the image of God
- Live in sexual purity, whether single or in a marriage covenant between a man and a woman
- Pray and work diligently to see the Gospel spread to all peoples in anticipation of the glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ
As grateful recipients of God’s grace, we always seek to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8). In each area of responsibility, it will be our goal to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33). Our theological understanding flows within the believers’ church tradition and we embrace the Lausanne Covenant and the Manila Manifesto.
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1 Corinthians 3:11)
Our History
It was November 1995. Leaders from several discipleship and mission training programs had gathered for a day of prayer and fasting. Drawn together by a common mission, they shared a common desire: to respond to the need expressed by churches worldwide to provide discipleship-mission training for their own young people.
As the Holy Spirit moved, these leaders began seeing how the barriers separating them and their ministries from each other had prevented collaboration. Through confession, brokenness, and prayer, God birthed Global Disciples and the initial training model now known as Global Disciple Training (GDT). Since then, Global Disciples has added training for trainers in small business development (SBD) and leadership development (LEAD).
Today, Global Disciples serves in partnership with more than 1,800 groups of churches fellowships or denominations, in 74 countries, providing training enabling them to equip and send out mission workers to multiply Christ-like believers and plant locally-sustainable fellowships and churches.
Global Disciples Canada was established in 2013 as a federal not-for-profit corporation with CRA registered charitable status. We see ourselves as one small part of a big thing God is doing. We pray that we’ll see spiritual renewal here at home as we partner with others who are following Jesus, often at great cost. We work closely with the international Global Disciples team to accomplish Jesus’ Great Commission.
Our Pledge
I am a global disciple of Jesus.
My allegiance is to Jesus Christ. He is the Living Word of God, as revealed by the Holy Spirit and through the Bible.
I want to do my part so everyone has the opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus and to choose if they will believe and follow Him. My desire is to see each person experience the transforming love of Jesus, live in the fullness of the Spirit and enjoy God forever.
As a participant in a local expression of the global Body of Christ, I am united in heart and purpose with sisters and brothers of many nations, ethnic groups, languages, and churches to glorify God and to make Him known.
I believe my part as a global disciple of Jesus Christ is to:
- Pursue Intimacy with God as my Creator, Provider and Father, through Jesus my Saviour, Lord and Friend
- Love others as Jesus loves them, relating and serving as witnesses in word and deed, loving even enemies
- Pray diligently for people who do not yet know Christ, especially those unreached with the Good News
- Live generously as a steward of all God has entrusted to me, being an ambassador of our generous Master
- Rely on the Holy Spirit and the Bible to lead, guide and empower me to live, love and serve for God’s glory
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A word of encouragement:
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Whatever place you find yourself in–discouraged, disappointed, hurt, apathetic–we serve a God who is faithful and good and sovereign. He is in control of all things and He loves you! We pray you can encounter His peace and find hope.
#Hope #Prayer #Encouragement #GlobalDisciplesCanada
Global Disciples serves to connect and facilitate cooperation within the global Body of Christ among clusters of churches that are engaged in discipleship, mission, and leadership training ministries and share our commitment to:
• Glorify God, the Creator and eternal Lord of the universe.
• Exalt the only Savior and risen Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
• Rely on the Holy Spirit to teach, convict, comfort and empower.
• Accept the Bible as the divinely inspired, authoritative Word of God.
• Demonstrate love for those in the church, the Body of Christ.
• Show love for those without Christ through lives of compassionate service, righteous living, and evangelism.
• Celebrate the sanctity of human life from conception to death, understanding we are created male and female, in the image of God.
• Live in sexual purity, whether single or in a marriage covenant between a man and a woman.
• Pray and work diligently to see the Gospel spread to all peoples in anticipation of the glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Learn more by visiting globaldisciples.ca
For the month of March, we are praying for India and Sri Lanka.
Today, we focus our prayers for the leaders serving in these regions. They serve 75 groups of churches and 192 active training programs. Last year, 1,057 trained disciple-makers planted 546 new churches, with 3,446 new worshippers and disciples of Jesus. We praise God for this amazing fruit produced in very hard soil. And we continue to lift up those He`s using to bring his Gospel to the least-reached.
Thank you for your investment in prayer!
#Pray #PrayWithUs #GlobalDisciples #GlobalDisciplesCanada #SpreadtheGospel #EveryoneOnMission
Global Disciples makes it possible for the local Body of Christ in 74 nations to reach their nations. We currently have 3,475 training programs, 1,997 in Africa, 1,258 in Asia, and 220 in Latin America. Our model has proven flexible and adaptable in areas where visible Gospel activity is restricted or opposed.
We praise God for the growth we`ve had over the years and are excited to see more of His hand at work through Global Disciples around the world!
Global Disciples partners with men like Pastor Kabir, in south-central India, an extraordinary pastor and leader who has faced many challenges.
"We have a vision to plant 10 thousand churches in our region. But I had a problem. A problem with how to strengthen the church leaders. But with the help from Global Disciples, we were able to offer leadership training. We have used this and it has helped us so much. I don’t have any words to express my thanks for the way these trainings have helped us.”
As Global Disciples, we’re privileged to be used by God to meet the needs by providing training in discipleship-mission, leadership, and small business development, to indigenous churches in more than 65 countries.
Pastor Kabir expressed our shared vision when he said, “I want to see church multiplication, and believe that the secret is to empower and equip all believers to be evangelists and disciple-makers.”
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Global Disciples Canada is not a solo act, we are part of a growing, global movement of change-makers who are dedicated to living in a world where every person is given the opportunity to hear about and respond to Jesus Christ. Financially partnering with us allows you to join at the heart of this movement and can help shape the future of our world!
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“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39
Your contributions support and equip workers like Kendi*.
In a war-torn region of West Africa, Kendi trained 15 disciple-makers to share their faith in a large refugee camp. These disciple-makers combined compassionate evangelism with meeting the physical needs of refugees, bringing hope to those in desperate situations. In just two months and despite opposition in this challenging environment, 66 Muslims came to faith in Jesus. 64 were baptized and two churches were planted within the camp!
Kendi’s efforts highlight the vital role that near-culture Christians have in sharing the love of Christ where it’s most needed. As you pray for and support workers like him and his training program, you share in his work as a partner, bringing the hope of Jesus to West Africa and many hard places in our world.
Thank you for supporting and praying for near-culture disciples of Jesus!
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If you want near-culture workers, you need local churches. We are grateful for the generations of cross-cultural workers and the traditional mission-sending strategies. Thanks to their dedication and sacrificial lives, the global Body of Christ is mature and thriving in many places. Now it’s time for the next step: tapping into these local churches to train and send out their people as a new generation of mission workers.
As Global Disciples, we partner with local churches to equip and send out their people as disciple-makers and church planters who are able to use small business for sustainability, and develop leaders for the multiplying church.
To learn more about our work, visit globaldisciples.ca
Join us as we focus our prayers on the least-reached in North and Central (NC) India and Sri Lanka for the month of March.
In North Central India alone, over 750 million unreached people and more than 1,000 people groups are considered least-reached. So few of these know the love of Christ–a mere 0.2% follow the Christian faith. Sri Lanka, the island nation off the coast of Southern India, has had more exposure to Christianity, but still nearly half of its people groups are considered least-reached. What a massive mission opportunity!
Thank you for being a part of their support network. Your prayers are so needed in this area of the world that desperately longs to know the love of Christ.
#Pray #PrayWithUs #GlobalDisciples #GlobalDisciplesCanada #SpreadtheGospel #EveryoneOnMission
Our Team
The global nature of our ministry is reflected in the 26 nationalities represented in our facilitators, trainers and support staff.
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