Real lives, real businesses, real churches — from the least-reached corners of the world.
“I could travel from Uganda to be here because our tailoring shop is making enough money.” Odwori was learning to train others. That is a facilitator: someone who has done it, and is ready to pass it on.
The training ran from 30 July to 6 August, bringing leaders from East Pokot, Samburu and Turkana into one room — communities with a long history of tension between them. They came for Pioneer Disciple Making: picture-based materials built for oral learners, where literacy is low and a drawing travels…
“I cannot write, I cannot read, but I can use these to share the gospel.” He said it in Uganda, holding a set of printed pictures. Around him, more than 35 local and indigenous movement leaders had spent the week learning to make disciples using only images and spoken stories. Another put it simply: he…
She crossed a border with nothing but a needle, some thread, and a pair of hands that knew how to work. Ten years later, she leads a network of over 200 house groups spanning two countries — and she’s just turned her survival skill into a growing business. This month’s story from the Middle East is about how one mime skit, seven envelopes, and one refugee’s faith are quietly multiplying both businesses and churches across a region that needs more trainers than it has.
Not every act of faith ends in blessing right away. One woman paid dearly for a single honest conversation about her faith — and found a new family in the community her courage helped create. Meet her, and five ordinary trades quietly becoming doorways for the extraordinary.
A beauty parlor owner made one quiet decision — to surrender her business to God — and it multiplied into two thriving storefronts, and a new role training other entrepreneurs to do the same. Hers is one story in a community-wide movement: this May, twenty-one Bangladeshi leaders, including a man whose own turning point came from a knife and a dream, completed a week of training to write the next chapter.
At 24, Loserian can barely read or write — yet he sold two goats, opened a shop in Naalarami, Tanzania, and now his community gathers seventy strong every Friday. Three friends his age have started businesses after watching him. One shop. One face of 1000/1000.
What does it take to walk away from the most prestigious job in your country and start over from scratch? For Rashida — Pakistani Christian woman, computer science gold medalist, and founder of TechHub Pakistan — the answer is simple: faith, courage, and an unshakeable calling. Her story is full of illness, persecution, heartbreak, and…
“Couldn’t All Nations—the people from the West—help us?” It was day four of the Pioneer Business Planting training in Southfield, southern Pakistan. The room was full of small-scale farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs — people who had grown up with little, and who had learned to look outward for help. But what happened next surprised everyone…
Hassan Lomunyo Tepa is a respected leader in East Pokot, an area in northwestern Kenya. He currently lives in Tangulbei with his second wife and their son, where he leads a small church with 38 members. Hassan also runs a hotel and other businesses while serving as a facilitator and church planter for All Nations…
“My vision is to raise 1 million leaders-encouraging everyone to dream big and start small.” This was the heart of Arjit’s message during the Pioneer Business Planting training in India this February, where 25 participants from four different states gathered to learn how to integrate business and ministry for lasting impact. Arjit’s journey began years…
Story of Rajesh & Ananya – From Limitation to Impact At the heart of our 1000/1000 vision—starting 1000 churches and 1000 businesses among the least reached by 2028—are stories of ordinary people stepping out in faith. This month, we highlight Rajesh and Ananya, a couple from India whose journey beautifully illustrates how business can become…
Jesus asked a little boy for five loaves and two fish and fed more than 5000 people with it. It was truly a miracle of multiplication. Some years ago, I pondered, thought and asked God what we could give Him so that our work could multiply. I realized that Jesus invested deeply in 12 of…
Looking Back: A Year of Multiplication As we step into 2026, we want to thank you for being part of the movement to bring hope, transformation, and the gospel among the unreached—in the hardest places. Your generosity and prayers in 2025 have made a real difference—across Africa, Asia, and beyond. Last year, through your support,…
“I wish I had received this training five years ago!” said one participant at the close of our Pioneer Business Planting training in Pakistan. At the end of September, we had the privilege of equipping 65 Christians with different backgrounds with practical skills for launching Kingdom-centered businesses. One pastor shared enthusiastically: “At the beginning of…
In a simple training room in Arusha, Tanzania, 40 church planters, entrepreneurs and local community leaders from Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya gathered. Many of whom were once stuck in generational poverty and hopelessness. But what united them was a shared journey: each had taken the Pioneer Business Planting (PBP) training and had already planted businesses…
Guiding the Movement Immediately after the Facilitators Training in Arusha, Tanzania, our national leaders from Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, India, and Tanzania stayed for a 3-day strategic leadership gathering. What took place was a time of vision, honesty, deep prayer, and big dreams. We shared our stories. One of us had grown up without parents,…
The whole village knew Losten. They knew him as the man who reeked of alcohol before noon, who could barely walk straight, who spent his days moving from one drinking spot to another. They knew his wife—the tired woman who held their family together with quiet resilience. They knew his children, who learned early how…
“How much money can you sell a pig for after 8 months? What is the cost of feed during that time?” one of our Kenyan trainers asked a participant during our business follow-up in Uganda. The answer was shocking—this woman, along with her family, had been running a piggery for years, unaware they were incurring…
