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Africa LEAD Project for funding in 2026 …
In October 2025 David and Donna took up the leadership of a new initiative in AGWM Africa called Africa LEAD.
– AGWM Global is launching one of its most aggressive visions in recent history. In the next several years, Africa will receive about 400 additional of the sons and daughters of our fellowship, churches, and networks to engage global service.
– Africa LEAD is committed to the training, coaching, and resourcing of every team leader to ensure that every global worker serves in a healthy and effective team.
– Africa LEAD is committed to building a leadership development pipeline to assure we have the leadership structure into which to onboard the workers we will receive the next several years and beyond.
David and Donna work with an urban church planting initiative planting churches in the gateway urban centers of Africa.
View or Download a 16 page descriptive brochure that tells the Urban Tribes story.
God directed us to take what He has invested in us over the past 3 decades, and embrace our calling to lift, equip, and resource multiplying leaders across the continent of Africa. We will do this in two ways…
Urban church planting through Urban Tribes. Africa is urbanizing at an astonishing rate. Urban Tribes is a continental initiative to plant churches in every major urban center in Africa. We work with church launch teams by lifting, resourcing, equipping and prayerfully strategizing with them to plant, develop and grow effective disciple-making, missionary-sending churches in Africa’s urban centers.
We serve Africa’s leaders by facilitating, raising up, and resourcing our missionary teams and leaders across the continent in the effective and healthy fulfillment of their vision and calling.
When we each lost our spouse about 12 years ago, long before we knew each other, we individually began the most difficult journey of our lives. We were each in a season of life where most people put roots deep and finish strong. For us, we began part 2 of our lives. We could not have known the challenges or the joys of the journey, and you can learn more about our story on our about us page, but its a new day which requires a new adventure and mission.
We are thankful for those things behind, but that which has happened to us has really served to advance the gospel… (Philippians [1:12]).
The difficult things that happen to all of us cost too much to waste, so for us, as we came to a place of wholeness we learned to trust God in new ways. This trust led us to a new mission and a new calling that would not have come unless the difficult things came first.
Recent Articles and Podcasts…
087 – Depression Busters: Rest and Energy Levels
Rest and energy levels are vitally important to your emotional health. Sleeping well, proper pacing, perspective pauses, intentionally managing energy levels in four zones, and balancing taking action and taking breaks. Many things associated with living, leading, and loving, cast a shadow across our joy and cause us to slide, or at least start sliding toward depression. In this episode we continue our “Depression Busters” series, as we discuss the importance of rest and refreshing.
086 – Friends: Why You Need Friends, How to Find Friends, How to Make Friends, How to Keep Friends
We need friends. Life and leadership is about people. It is about relationships. You cannot be emotionally healthy in a vacuum. Most of us only have a few friends, people we can count on, people with whom we are doing life. In fact, if you have one or two, you are blessed. A lot of people don’t have any intimate friends. In this episode we explore the importance of friends in overcoming depression, how to find friends, make friends, and strengthen our connection to them.
085 – Simplicity. Simply Communicating the Complex
We’ve got to make things simple and keep things simple. When things get too complicated we lose track, we get bogged down, cluttered, and we don’t accomplish much. My problem is that complicated things fascinate me. We’ve got to stay committed to moving complexity into simplicity, finding the simple truths in things, and keeping the main thing the main thing.
Our Mission: Africa’s Need
The greatest challenge for missions on the continent of Africa is raising up and equipping multiplying leaders.
- The population of Africa is just over 1.2 billion people. Those spiritually lost: 846 million.
- Africa has 867 unreached people groups… we’ve only engaged 34 of those groups.
- In just 20 years, we’ve grown from 2.1 million constituents to 22.6 million.
- Africa is the fastest urbanizing region in the world. By 2030 Africa will be 60% urban.
The Greatest Need
The church is growing at such an unprecedented rate, the continent is rapidly urbanizing, there are over 800 unreached people groups not yet engaged… we must have multiplying leaders.
Discipleship is relationship intensive. Raising up, training, and releasing multiplying leaders is essential. This is not the work of one exceptional person or of a few, this is a generational work requiring a network of thousands. This is about networking, this is about missionaries raising up and sending out missionaries. This is about urban church plants reaching and sending to remote and closed parts of the continent.
We will invest what’s been invested in us. We will seek others who will do the same… For Christ… and for Africa!
Other Videos
This video is “Our Story and Our Mission.” It includes both the story of our journey and an overview of our mission.
