In One Month, GlobeServe Ministries International Reached 13,573 People With the Gospel. Here's How.
By GlobeServe Ministries | MOVE 2026
Keywords: evangelism Africa 2026, Gospel outreach West Africa, church planting results, Jesus Film outreach Africa, house churches Africa, GlobeServe MOVE 2026, disciple making West Africa
In a single month, February 2026, GlobeServe Ministries’ MOVE 2026 initiative reached 23,610 people with the Gospel across 73 communities, planted 209 house churches, and made 211 disciples across nine reporting departments in Ghana and West Africa.
That is not a year-end summary. That is not a cumulative total from multiple seasons of ministry. That is February.
So how does a ministry operating in some of West Africa’s most challenging and resource-constrained environments produce results at this scale, month after month? The answer is worth understanding in detail, because it reveals a model that is genuinely replicable, genuinely sustainable, and genuinely effective in ways that ought to reshape how the church thinks about missions investment in the Global South.
What Is MOVE 2026?
MOVE 2026 is GlobeServe’s annual field mobilization initiative: a structured, coordinated, multi-department push to bring the Gospel to unreached and underreached communities across Ghana and West Africa through the deployment of trained catalysts using proven, reproducible methods.
The name is not merely motivational. It describes the methodology. Catalysts move, physically and relationally, into communities where the Gospel is not present. They do not wait for communities to come to them. They do not build a central facility and advertise. They go: to villages, to markets, to homes, to gathering places, and they bring the Gospel with them in forms that communities can receive.
Nine of GlobeServe’s ministry departments reported results in February. Each department operates with local workers, local leadership, and locally adapted outreach strategies. They are not running identical programs replicated from a central template. They are applying shared principles and shared methods in contextually appropriate ways, unified by shared training, shared accountability reporting structures, and a shared commitment to the multiplication of disciples and churches rather than the accumulation of decisions and statistics.
Understanding the February Numbers: What They Mean and What They Don’t
Before celebrating or questioning the February numbers, it is worth being precise about what each metric actually measures. GlobeServe is committed to honest reporting, and that honesty begins with being clear about definitions.
73 Communities Reached
This metric counts distinct geographic communities, not events or sessions. A community reached is a community in which at least one formal Gospel engagement occurred: a Jesus Film screening, a Discovery Bible Study launch, an evangelistic gathering, or a sustained period of personal Gospel witness resulting in documented spiritual conversations.
In West Africa’s village and peri-urban contexts, a community reached represents a meaningful milestone. These are not communities where the Gospel is culturally familiar background noise. Many of them have no established evangelical presence, no local church, and no community member who is a Christian. For these communities, February 2026 may represent the first time in living memory, or possibly the first time ever, that the Gospel was proclaimed among them in a culturally intelligible form.
23,610 People Reached with the Gospel
This number represents the aggregate of individuals who had a substantive exposure to the Gospel message during February through MOVE 2026 activities. It includes everyone who watched a Jesus Film screening through to completion, everyone who participated in an evangelistic gathering, everyone who engaged in a personal Gospel conversation with a MOVE catalyst, and everyone who heard the Gospel.
It is important to be clear about what this number does not mean. It does not mean 23,610 conversions. Conversion is a work of the Holy Spirit that unfolds over time, often beginning with a moment of Gospel exposure and deepening through relationships, Bible engagement, and community formation across months or years. What February’s number represents is the initial seeding of Gospel witness across a population of 23,610 people who now have a basis for further spiritual inquiry that they did not have in January.
211 Disciples Made
This is arguably the most significant metric in the February report, and it is the one that most directly predicts long-term Kingdom impact.
A disciple, as GlobeServe counts the term, is not a person who raised a hand at an evangelistic event or repeated a prayer. It is a person who is actively being formed in the way of Jesus through ongoing participation in a Discovery Bible Study group or equivalent discipleship process, who has made a clear initial commitment to follow Christ, and who is being equipped to disciple others.
The distinction matters enormously. Converts who are not discipled often drift back into their previous religious context within months. Disciples who are formed in reproducible methods and equipped to make disciples of others are the building blocks of genuine movement. One disciple who multiplies is worth ten converts who don’t. The 211 disciples made in February, if they are faithfully trained and if they multiply as the methodology intends, represent the seed of something much larger.
209 House Churches Planted
This number is genuinely extraordinary, and it is the one most likely to prompt skeptical questions from readers accustomed to the scale and complexity of church planting.
209 new worshipping communities in a single month. How is that possible, and what exactly does “planted” mean?
A Celebration Church, as GlobeServe defines it, is an indigenous worshipping community that meets regularly, practices the ordinances of baptism and communion, is led by local believers, and is committed to making disciples and planting daughter churches.
In practice, a newly planted Celebration Church might be a group of eight to twenty people meeting in a home or courtyard, led by a new believer who has been equipped through a Discovery Bible Study group, practicing a pattern of worship and Word engagement that requires no resources beyond a copy of Scripture and willing hearts. This is not a lesser form of church. It is church in its most essential form, stripped of everything that is culturally specific to Western Christianity and reduced to what Scripture actually requires.
In practice, a newly planted Celebration Church might be a group of eight to twenty people meeting in a home or courtyard, led by a new believer who has been equipped through a Discovery Bible Study group, practicing a pattern of worship and Word engagement that requires no resources beyond a copy of Scripture and willing hearts. This is not a lesser form of church. It is church in its most essential form, stripped of everything that is culturally specific to Western Christianity and reduced to what Scripture actually requires.
MOVE 2026 catalysts planted 209 in February alone. The difference is not resources. It is methodology: specifically, a methodology designed for multiplication rather than institutional replication.
The Jesus Film: The World’s Most Effective Evangelism Tool
One of the core instruments of MOVE 2026’s field strategy is the Jesus Film, a two-hour cinematic portrayal of the Gospel of Luke originally produced in 1979 and now available in more than 1,800 languages and dialects, including dozens of West African languages spoken by communities that have had little or no access to Scripture in any other form.
The Jesus Film has been shown to more than nine billion people since its release, and it has been credited with more documented initial decisions to follow Christ than any other evangelistic tool in history. The reasons for its effectiveness in oral-learner communities are straightforward: it tells a story visually, it requires no literacy, it is available in local languages, and it creates a shared communal experience of the Gospel narrative that resonates with cultures where storytelling is the primary vehicle for transmitting important knowledge.
GlobeServe’s field catalysts deploy Jesus Film backpacks, self-contained portable projection systems that include a battery-powered projector, a screen, and a speaker, capable of screening the film in any outdoor location with no electricity required. A Jesus Film event in a village typically draws the entire community: children, adults, elders, Muslims and animists and seekers of every background, all watching together the story of Jesus healing the sick, feeding the hungry, raising the dead, being crucified, and rising again.
What happens after the screening is as important as the screening itself. Trained MOVE catalysts facilitate post-film conversations that invite participants to respond to what they have seen, to ask questions, to share what moved them, and to consider what it would mean to follow this Jesus. These conversations are the gateway to DBS groups, which become the seedbed for Celebration Churches.
All Jesus Film backpacks for the current School of Missions cohort have been deployed. The students are in the field. The screenings are happening. The conversations are underway.
Radio: The Invisible Multiplier
Beyond the Jesus Film and DBS-based outreach, several MOVE 2026 departments are deploying Gospel radio broadcasts as a reach multiplier in areas where face-to-face access is difficult.
In countries like Niger and Mali, where security situations restrict movement and where communities are spread across vast distances, radio is not a secondary outreach channel. It is primary access. A Gospel broadcast on a local radio station can reach a hundred villages simultaneously, in the local language, in the privacy of a listener’s own home, without the social visibility that attending a Christian gathering might create in a Muslim-majority community.
This is particularly significant for individuals who are spiritually curious but not yet ready to be seen publicly engaging with Christianity. A radio broadcast allows them to listen, to process, to ask internal questions, and to begin a spiritual journey that they can pursue quietly before it becomes something they need to manage socially and relationally.
The Infrastructure Behind the Numbers
February’s results did not happen spontaneously. They are the product of years of investment in training, methodology development, accountability systems, and network relationships.
The field workers producing these results are graduates of GlobeServe’s School of Missions and Church Planting, equipped with specific, field-tested methods rather than general theological education. They are operating within a network of accountability that includes regular reporting, field visits, and peer support. They are covered by dedicated intercession teams. They are using methodologies that have been refined through decades of field experience and continuous feedback from the communities where they have been applied.
What It Actually Means to Be a Partner
When a church or individual gives to GlobeServe’s MOVE 2026 initiative, they are not purchasing a service or sponsoring a program. They are investing in the infrastructure, training, and coordination systems that allow local West African workers to do what they are called to do with greater effectiveness than they could achieve without outside support.
Concretely, a gift to MOVE 2026 might fund a Jesus Film backpack that screens the Gospel in a village that has never heard it. It might fund a week of field training that equips a new catalyst. It might sustain the coordination infrastructure that connects nine reporting departments into a coherent network rather than nine isolated operations. It might provide the communications technology that allows a field worker in a remote area to stay connected to their support network.
These are not glamorous investments. They do not produce the kind of visible, photographable results that fill brochures. But they are the investments that actually determine whether field workers can be effective, and they are the investments that produce results like February’s.
Be Part of What Comes Next
MOVE 2026 continues across all twelve months of the year. Every month, departments will report. Every month, new communities will be reached, new disciples will be made, new churches will be planted.
March is already underway. The catalysts are in the field. The Jesus Film backpacks are deployed. The DBS groups are meeting. The Celebration Churches are gathering.
Pray daily for MOVE 2026 catalysts across nine departments, for protection, open doors, and the faithfulness to multiply what they have received
Give to resource the next Jesus Film screening event, the next catalyst training, the next field coordination visit
Share this story with your church and your mission committee, because the model is worth understanding and the partnership is worth pursuing
February’s numbers are in. The story is real. And the movement is continuing.