NewGenerations' work is to catalyze a nationally-led church planting process.
International (MNN) ― NewGenerations International, a division of CityTeam Ministries, will hold its first international fundraising event on June 14, 2008.
A celebratory event with an international flavor, "The Passionate Pursuit of Much Fruit" will focus on church planting efforts in Africa and Southeast Asia. NewGenerations' ministry in these areas has already seen dramatic successes -- thousands of new church plants and hundreds of millions of new believers in areas where there had previously been little response to the Gospel.
However, "Africa and South East Asia are home to hundreds of millions of people who unless something radically changes will live and die without ever having the opportunity to choose new life in Christ," said Harry Brown, CityTeam's Vice President of International Ministries.
NewGenerations has trained and equipped dozens of local African and Southeast Asian Christians to plant churches in a new country or people group. These committed believers are only waiting for funding to relocate their families and begin ministry in a different area. You can help support indigenous church-planting movements around the world.
NewGenerations has a vision to plant 3260 more churches and see 163,000 people come to Christ between July 2007 and December 2008. It has already planted 4,175 churches and seen 203,500 conversions in 38 different countries since March 2005.
CityTeam International was launched in 1994 and renamed NewGenerations International in 2007 to emphasize its focus on disciples making disciples. Even before the launch, CityTeam had been involved in youth outreach, drug rehab, family services, and disaster relief all over the world.
The ministry developed a strategy of building self-replicating churches by mentoring and equipping indigenous believers to disciple and evangelize the lost. The strategy was first implemented in 1992 among a very difficult people group in North India, and it has resulted in a community of 2 million believers in that area today.
