How Does One Become a Disciple Making Leader?
DISCIPLES WHO MAKE DISCIPLES WHO MAKE EVEN MORE DISCIPLES = WORLD REVOLUTION!
The mission Jesus entrusted to the church is to Make Disciples. Every church leader is called to join Jesus in his mission of Disciple Making. Disciples are God's agents of community transformation. Therefore, the Church exists for discipleship and Disciple Making Leaders are its future.
Through The Full Gospel Mission in Cameroon, Christian Hope Centre (CHC) Mvog- Ada, Yaounde, is now the Cameroon hub for the Bonhoeffer Project which seeks to transform church culture towards disciple making.
Do you want disciple making to be the norm rather than the exception at your church or organisation? To equip your leaders to become disciple makers who make disciples who make even more disciples? This is not just another programme that adds up to saturate your already busy schedule, but a quiet revolution that seeks to change the world.
Through cohorts, full of like-minded people (in- person, hybrid, and online school) The Bonhoeffer Project challenges, questions and creates intentionality on how every area of our everyday life can become a disciple making opportunity. Church leaders are all really busy and who among them has the time for another programme? What TBP does is encouraging a lifestyle change in which you are no longer a leader with a discipleship programme, but a disciple making leader. “Discipleship isn't a sprint or even a marathon but a relay in which the baton is passed on, creating a perpetual cycle of disciple makers,” Kieth Foster.
True Disciple Making, as Jesus intended it to be, is endowed with the potential to transform our lives, our churches, our cities and our nation, one person at a time.
Rather than just offering a resource, we want to partner with churches here in Cameroon in training leaders in French and English through cohorts of church leaders. This is a year-long process of learning, mentoring and coaching in community to create the DNA of disciple making in churches across the country. The Bonhoeffer Project is designed to bring clarity to the process and help your church become a Disciple Making church.
For more information on how you can get involved, contact Felix Niba, Cameroon and West/Central Africa Director, on felix@thebonhoefferproject.com
Comment Devenir un Dirigeant Faiseur de Disciples
DES DISCIPLES QUI FONT ENCORE PLUS DE DISCIPLES= RÉVOLUTION MONDIALE
La mission qu’a confiée Jésus à l’église est celle de faire des disciples. Tout dirigeant d’église est appelé à se joindre à Jésus dans la mission qui est la sienne, à savoir faire des disciples. Les disciples sont des agents au service de Dieu pour la transformation des communautés. C’est pourquoi la raison d’être de l’Église est le discipolat et qu'en conséquence les dirigeants faiseurs de disciples sont son avenir.
Grâce à la Mission du Plein Évangile au Cameroun dont il fait partie, le Centre de l’espérance chrétienne (CEC) sis à Mvog-Ada-Yaoundé est le pôle qui héberge désormais le Projet Bonhoeffer dont l’objectif est de transformer progressivement la culture des églises jusqu’au discipolat complet.
Souhaitez-vous que le discipolat devienne la norme plutôt que l’exception dans votre église ou organisation ? Équipez vos dirigeants pour en faire des faiseurs de disciples qui en forment encore plus ? Le Projet Bonhoeffer n’est pas juste un programme comme tous les autres, censé remplir votre emploi de temps déjà fort chargé. Bien au contraire, il est l’instrument d’une révolution qui vise à changer le monde.
En constituant des groupes de personnes animées d’un même dessein (en présentielle, en cours hybrides ou en ligne) le Projet Bonhoeffer permet d’examiner d’un œil critique et de proposer des solutions intentionnelles quant à la façon de faire de chaque aspect de notre vie quotidienne une occasion de faire un disciple. Les dirigeants d’église ont un calendrier déjà tellement chargé qu’il est difficile d’imaginer qu’ils puissent dégager du temps pour assister à une activité imprévue. Le Projet Bonhoeffer a ceci de particulier qu’il favorise chez l’intéressé un changement de style de vie dans lequel celui-ci n’est plus un dirigeant à la tête d’un programme de discipolat, mais plutôt un dirigeant faiseur de disciples. « Le discipolat est loin d’être une course de vitesse ou un marathon, mais plutôt une course de relai consistant à passer le relai à chaque fois, créant ainsi un cycle perpétuel de faiseurs de disciples. » (Kieth Foster).
Le véritable discipolat, selon la pensée de Jésus, a la capacité de transformer nos vies, nos églises et nos nations partant d’une personne à la fois.
Le Projet ne se veut pas uniquement un centre de ressources, il ambitionne également d’établir des partenariats avec des églises ici même au Cameroun à travers des programmes de formation de dirigeants d’assemblées en français et en anglais en les réunissant en groupes. Le programme qui durera un an est un processus d’étude, de mentorat et d’encadrement en communauté afin développer l’ADN du discipolat dans les églises à travers le pays. Le Projet Bonhoffer a été conçu pour permettre de mieux comprendre et assimiler le processus.
Pour de plus amples informations sur le moyen d’en faire partie, veuillez prendre attache avec M. Felix Niba au Cameroun, Directeur pour la région Afrique Centrale de l’Ouest, à l’adresse électronique suivante : felix@thebonhoefferproject.com
Felix Niba
Cameroon & West/central Africa director
Felix has over thirty-five years of ministry experience in church planting, discipleship and disciple making, leadership and leadership training, coaching and mentoring, and missions.
He is married to Bridget. They have three grown up Children, two girls and a boy. They all love and follow Jesus.
Felix is our Bonhoeffer Cameroon Director but is also one of the executive leanders of Full Gospel Mission, Cameroon and the Senior Pastor at Christian Hope Center (CHC), Mvog- Ada, Yaounde, Cameroon. He also heads and teaches at the West Africa Advance School of Theology (WAAST), Mbalmayo, Cameroon Extension Center.
Felix holds a PhD in Theological Studies from Pan - Africa Theological Seminary PATHS, Lome Togo; an MA in Missioligy from the Assemblies of God Graduate School of Theology (AGGST), Lome, Togo; and a BA in Cross Cultural Communications from the Assemblis of God Divinity School of Theology, Nigeria (AGDSN).
Email: felix@thebonhoefferproject.com
Felix Niba
Cameroun, Directeur pour la région Afrique Centrale de l’Ouest
M. Félix Niba jouit de trente-cinq année d’expérience dans le ministère consacrées notamment à l’implantation d’églises, au discipolat, à la formation de disciples, au leadeurship, à la formation de leadeurs, à l’encadrement et mentorat ainsi qu’au discipolat.
Il est marié à Bridget dont il e au trois enfants aujourd’hui adultes, dont deux filles et un garçon tous amoureux et disciples de Christ.
M. Felix Niba est le Directeur Cameroun du Projet Bonhoeffer. Il est par ailleurs membre du Concile de la Mission du Plein Évangile, instante dirigeante de cette Mission, et pasteur principal du Centre de l’espérance chrétienne (CEC° sis à Mvog-Ada à Yaoundé au Cameroun. Il est en outre directeur de du West Africa Advance School of Theology, branche du Cameroun, situé à Mbalmayo où il est également enseignant.
M. Félix Niba est titulaire d’un Doctorat en théologie obtenu au Pan-Africa Theological Seminary PATHS situé à Lomé au Togo d’un MA en Missiology obtenu de Assemblies of god Graduate School of Theology (AGGST) toujours à Lomé au Togo et d’un BA in Crosscultural communication de l’AGDSN.
Pour plus amples informations veuillez contacter M. Félix NIba à l’adresse électronique suivante : felix@thebonhoefferproject.com
The Bonhoeffer Project Cameroon Story
by felix niba, director of cameroon & west africa
It was in 2015 that I first heard of The Bonhoeffer Project. Motivated by a passion to disciple and be discipled, I wrote to Bill Hull asking if he could disciple me. He replied that it was not possible because of distance.
Although Bill’s reply wasn’t positive, I was happy that he took time to personally respond to my mail. This revealed to me his heart as a caring disciple making leader and I was greatly encouraged by his action.
In 2017 I attended Exponential in Orlando, Florida; not knowing that Bill was there. During one of the breaks I was walking in the hallway when I spotted Bill and his wife and walked up to him, introduced myself to him and reminded him of my letter to him in 2015and his response. I also told him of my desire to be a part of The Bonhoeffer Project, but all the cohort centers are in America and I live in Africa.
In response he said they were preparing to launch an online cohort. He asked for my business card and promised to contact me to give me more details about it. He also directed me to where they were meeting during the breakout sessions. I attended all the remaining sessions. It was very clear to me that God wanted me to be a part of this Bonhoeffer tribe. I discovered that this was the right place for me to be encouraged, equipped, and empowered for disciple making.
Three days after Exponential, I was contacted, granted an interview, and accepted into a hybrid cohort with Ben Sobels as my cohort leader. The one year journey of being a part of this cohort was a transformative experience for me. I completed in 2019 and was recommended by my cohort leader to be trained as a cohort leader. In July 2019 The Bonhoeffer Project Cameroon’s (TBP Cameroon) first cohort was launched with 5 participants. Three of the five made it to the end of the training in October 2020. All three have been accepted to be trained as cohort leaders.
I started TBP Cameroon’s second cohort by the end of October 2020 with 10 participants made up of national church leaders, university lecturers, a medical doctor, and other church and ministry leaders. TBP Cameroon will launch 4 new cohorts in 2021 and 14 new cohorts in 2022.
In 2019, using The Discipleship Gospel Handbook: Multiplying Disciples with the Gospel of Mark by Bill Hall and Ben Sobels as part of implementing my Discipleship Flow Process (DFP), I started discipling 10 pastors and church leaders in Discipleship Gospel Groups (DG-Groups). Nine of these pastors and church leaders are now leading DG- Groups of 5 participants each, coming from all walks of life.
I am also using The Discipleship Gospel to train 23 students in our seminary so they can experience discipleship and reproduce and multiply the experience in their churches.
TBP Cameroon is in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Full Gospel Mission Cameroon to train her over 900 pastors. Being a bilingual country, French and English, Cameroon stands a better place of reaching Africa with The Bonhoeffer Project’s vision. To implement this vision to the over 300 million French speakers in Africa we envision working together with TBP headquarters to have all TPB training materials translated into French by the end of 2021.
What TBP Cameroon Participants Have Experienced
“This discipleship training has caused me to be very sensitive to making the maximum use of my time and to be so deliberate about my actions toward my wife, children, and others. I have also realized that before this training I was always dissatisfied with the involvement of the Christians in the service of God. In other words, the victims were always blamed. Now I realize that Christians are a product of the messages they listen to.” - Rev. Bekali Johnson
“The training has been such a great blessing to my life. It has helped me develop a new passion to help leaders become disciple makers for multiplication and has also enabled me to understand how to do it. Thank you God and The Bonhoeffer Project.” - Rev. Sokeng Clement, Vice General Superintendent, Full Gospel mission, Cameroon.
“Many years ago my soul began aching for a genuine Christianity. Finally, I discovered that disciple making was the answer to the problem, but I did not know how to go about it until Dr. Felix Niba introduced me to The Bonhoeffer Project. Now I think I am on the right path and I give God glory.” - Rev. Feupossi Germy
