Real lives, real businesses, real churches — from the least-reached corners of the world.
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.
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,…
Last year, in September 2023, we traveled with a team to Meserani, Tanzania. Upon arrival we discovered that it didn’t rain for three years.
Upon our arrival in Meserani, Tanzania, in September 2023, we discovered that the region had not experienced rainfall for a period spanning three years.
In February 2023, we trained a group of disciple makers and church planters in Moshi, Tanzania. One of them was Jackson. During this Pioneer Business Planting training, Jackson learned how to use business to make disciples, how to budget, do bookkeeping and how to save. These were all new things to them. Jackson is a…
One 19-year-old participant of our Pioneer Business Planting and Train the Trainer training, Rose (name changed), started crying in class. She shared that she was forced to be married to an older man. Her father is a Massai and has 8 wives and 25 children. He couldn’t provide for her school fees, so he arranged…
“You know, brother, these people here are very rich!”, one of my Kenyan friends told me when I arrived in Tanzania after they just finished giving our business training. “Only they don’t realize it! They have hundreds of goats and tens of cows. They can easily sell one or two of them, which will give…
One of the biggest challenges in Africa is managing money. Most of the participants that go through our business training have never made a personal budget. They have never been taught that it’s important. There is no example in their culture as most of the people live day by day and don’t plan ahead. Creating…
In early February, we conducted a three-day Business for Movements Train the Trainer program in Tanzania, welcoming 23 leaders from Tanzania, Malawi, and Kenya. The objective of this training was to empower and enhance the capabilities of our local African trainers to teach at least 50 individuals this year to start a Kingdom business. On…
