2025 Stories
There are two things mentioned often throughout these stories that we deeply value, gospel movements and Discovery Bible Study. If you’re interested, we’ve explained a little more what we mean:
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Gospel movements happen when the good news of Jesus spreads contagiously through a network of social relationships whereby many people become committed followers of Jesus and groups of these disciples multiply. Such movements have the potential to radically impact whole towns, cities, and nations. Learn more about Gospel Movements.
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In a Discovery Bible Study group we see spiritually-interested people read the Bible story together, discover what it says, and then are challenged to immediately live out what they learned and share it with someone else. It’s that simple!
Learn more about DBS.
South Africa | “Can My Garage Be a Missional Space?”
When Vuyo joined the InnerCHANGE team as an apprentice, she didn’t strike them as a visionary—but then again, God likes to use ordinary people to become agents of change. As she learned and served, her heart for Jesus and her neighborhood began to grow. After hearing about missional spaces, she asked, “Can my garage be a missional space?” She began an outreach to children in her neighborhood, which not only blessed those kids but sparked a whole missional network!
Read more about how Vuyo became a powerful change agent who’s inspiring others to do the same.
Kenya | Forming Leaders from Abundant Overflow
Novo’s spiritual formation missionary team, Imago Christi, has had an amazing opportunity to help ministry leaders in Kenya deepen their connection to Jesus and minister from the overflow. What started with 23 church leaders grew into a customized Discovery course for more than 80 additional leaders! The Kenyan leaders formed “Sacred Circles” where they could grow spiritually, support one another, and experience the love of Jesus. Now churches are being planted by leaders ministering from this place of overflow.
Read more to see how Imago Christi is helping church leaders in Kenya grow, lead, share God’s love, and experience it for themselves.
Edinburgh, Scotland | A Community Supporting Movements in Unreached Scotland
When Ryan and Amy moved to Scotland, they faced the challenge of how to make disciples in a staunchly secular nation where few follow Jesus. Yet through prayer, perseverance, and deep relationships, they’re helping believers rediscover how to make disciples and form gospel-centered communities. Through monthly “Communities of Practice,” they gather and equip disciple-makers from across the nation to worship, pray, and grow together. Slowly but surely, faith is taking root again in Scotland—and multiplication is beginning to bloom.
Read more about the challenges and opportunities Ryan and Amy are seeing in Scotland.
London, UK | Prophetic Art and Urban Blessings
In a neighborhood facing hardship, Joy is using art to speak life and hope. Through prayer-walks and ribbon-based street art, she writes words from Jesus over her community. Her pieces, like the word “Freedom,” have caught the attention of neighbors and sparked conversations about God’s love.
Discover more about how Joy is blessing her neighborhood through creativity and prayer.
Escondido, CA | A High School Disciple-Maker
Caden’s journey began with a longing to know God more deeply. Through Novo’s Activating Prayer and Disciple-Making Cohorts, he learned to take practical steps of faith and began leading Discovery Bible Studies with his high school teammates. Those gatherings became spaces where friends encountered Jesus and began to grow in their faith.
Read more to see how one high school student’s desire to grow became a movement of discipleship among his friends.
Nigeria | School of Missions for Movement
Sam was trained in Disciple Making Movements by Novo’s Global Partner, Healing and Transforming Leaders (HTL), and he was burdened by all the other church leaders who did not have the same tools to pray with power and make disciples who multiply. So he started a mission school.
Now, graduates have gone on to pioneer children’s ministries, soccer outreaches, drama groups, street churches, slum ministries, and college DBS groups—all intentionally structured to rapidly multiply the good news to more and more people.
Read more about how Sam was inspired to multiply his training to others and the life-changing ministries that have resulted.
Nigeria | From Slum Leader to Slum Minister
Geoffrey (aka “Bouncer”) was a drug-dealer and leader in the slums of Nigeria for 19 years. Despite that, people trained in disciple-making by Novo’s Global Partner in Nigeria recognized him as a person of peace, someone not only ready to hear the good news, but to share it with others. The result has been not just a new life of freedom and purpose for Geoffrey, but freedom for many others trapped in the same lifestyle.
Hear about what changed Geoffrey’s life and spurred him on to help others.
Austin, TX | Spiritual Opportunities with Spanish Speakers
When members from a local church began prayer-walking a trailer park in Austin, they didn’t know a single person. Equipped with tools to make disciples from Novo’s Disciple-Making Cohort, they began serving the community, and now, they know every family! Over 50 neighbors have joined Discovery Bible Studies that are reshaping lives. Marriages have been healed, people are sharing the gospel, and leaders are rising up from within. The community is being transformed from the inside out.
Hear the steps Austin Ridge church took to move from knowing no one in the community, to knowing everyone, and making a significant spiritual impact on their lives.
South Asia | Healing Beyond Witchcraft
Perched on treacherous mountainsides deep in South Asia are some of the hardest to reach (literally) people groups in the world. Just getting there takes days and days on motorbikes, travelling over tiny roads balanced on sheer cliffs, through leech-filled rivers. But God is blessing the workers making those journeys by showing up in miraculous ways. Almost every person who has become a follower of Jesus in this region has had a miraculous healing.
Hear about what happened when one witchdoctor's wife who was deep in the demonic, met Jesus, and was healed from paralysis.
