2025 Impact Report
Declaring God’s Glory and Faithfulness
Back to the time of the year when we glance back at how far we have come and anticipate how much more we can do in the year ahead. If there is one word that defines our ministry this year, it is faithfulness, all for His glory. As we close this chapter, we pause to acknowledge every statistic and story in this report as a result of God’s steadfast love and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit.
We have seen the Gospel penetrate new territories and bring hope to the hopeless, a feat that would be impossible in our own strength.
We are humbled that God has chosen to use the Palau Global Network of Evangelists as a vessel for His glory, and we are awestruck by the way the Holy Spirit has orchestrated every divine appointment we have recorded in 2025.
The Harvest
The year saw the team go out into 23 countries around the world. Our GNE team spent time in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Chad, USA, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, UK, Germany, Finland, South Sudan, Rwanda, Argentina, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Peru, Thailand, and Pakistan. In some places, we held massive evangelistic campaigns, in others we trained and equipped the body of Christ, and in others we continued working with the local church and witnessed great community impact.
The team successfully executed evangelistic outreaches across six regions in Zimbabwe through our largest campaign of the year: the Love Zimbabwe Festival. The GNE festivals in Chinhoyi, Gweru, and Bulawayo saw thousands come to Christ, sparking a spiritual impact that is still resonating today.
Through Love Zimbabwe, we continued with our innovative approach to spreading the Gospel, incorporating a Frontier and Border Mission aimed at reaching the unreached. At GNE, we are committed to shattering the mould of traditional evangelism, pushing the envelope with bold, creative strategies to ensure that no boundary – geographical or cultural – hinders the message of hope. Read the full report on the Love Zimbabwe Festival here.
With 185 collaborators who came on board for this campaign, including missioners from African Enterprise, we witnessed first hand what can be achieved when evangelists come together as one.
We are incredibly grateful to all the member evangelists and ministries who honored the call and showed their love to the lost in Zimbabwe.
In the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca (after an impactful gathering days prior in Seville, Spain), we witnessed what happens when the body of Christ comes together with a single purpose. In Cluj, through 11 targeted evangelistic events, we took the Gospel into prisons, onto busy city streets, and across the table at a touching lunch for Ukrainian refugees.
The 123 souls who made decisions for Christ was a testament to the hunger for hope in every corner of society. This festival didn’t just reach the lost; it united the local church, proving that when we stand together as evangelists with one mission, no barrier can stop the Good News. Grateful to the GNE members and ministries such as Hope4Nations who came on-board to collaborate with us in Cluj.
We cannot talk about sparking a fire of evangelism globally without celebrating the incredible momentum of Nueva Generación de Evangelistas (NGE), our Latin American arm. This year marked a significant milestone with the launch of NGE Peru, the region’s ninth country network, during the Accelerating Evangelism Summit. It was a powerful time of equipping, where more than 300 people received training to share their faith, and 20 individuals gave their lives to Christ right in the room.
The impact extended far beyond the summit. The NGE team was also instrumental in the success of Festival Rafaela, a massive outreach that resulted in 2,754 souls being saved. Their dedication was particularly vital as this event marked a historic milestone: the very first joint collaboration between NGE and GNE for a festival in Latin America. The Lord is moving mightily there, and it is deeply encouraging to see these country networks growing strong and fanning the flames of revival across the region! Follow all updates on NGE’s country networks, Festival Rafaela, and the important work they did in Venezuela and Argentina in 2025, here.
Advancing Together
What an incredible year it has been for the growth of Advance Groups!
With training activations in Chad and South Sudan, and continuous training in Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, it is refreshing to see the zeal with which pastors and ministry leaders are taking up the mantle of equipping their flock.
In Zimbabwe alone, the Love Zimbabwe Festival served as a massive catalyst for discipleship, resulting in the launch of 5,302 Advance Groups across 602 participating churches.
This strategic mobilization led to 7,877 individuals giving their lives to Christ, with 2,312 already successfully integrated into local church families.
The stories reaching us from local pastors are numerous and inspiring, and we cannot wait to see how these new believers grow to transform their communities in the years to come – just as we have witnessed in Zambia.
The follow-up phase for the Love Zambia Festival 2024 took place this year, yielding exceptionally fruitful results. The stories of impact were simply transformative. One key takeaway that stood out was the proven efficacy of Advance Groups in driving church growth. Pastors across the region successfully leveraged these groups to expand their congregations and deepen discipleship.
Pastor Gabriel Chintakwa of Dominion Way Gospel Church in Kalulushi, Zambia recalled: “The first week when the Advance groups went [out], we received about 26 visitors in the church. The following week we received 23. I added more groups to become 20 groups. In the period from January [2025] to last month April, when we counted the number of people who have joined the church, they were 77 people. Those who visited were 199. All this happened using the Advance Groups.”
In South Sudan, mobilization was taking place to launch new Advance Groups through the church, while extensively equipping pastors to strengthen the South Sudanese Country Network through training. Over 1000 Advance Groups were launched and another 3000+ pledged to be launched within two months of the training. Pastors viewed the Advance Groups model “as an accessible, scalable pathway that empowers congregations to mobilize lay leaders and believers, reach neighbors, and disciple new believers with clarity and momentum.”
Advance works!
“The Advance Groups training aligns with a broader global strategy to reach Arabic-speaking nations and beyond, recognizing South Sudan as a strategic entry point into the region. It offers a practical, scalable pathway for church multiplication and community transformation, equipping pastors and lay leaders with bilingual materials and a lay-led model that can be implemented rapidly. By strengthening outreach and discipleship in diverse contexts, Advance Groups has the potential to energize a fast-growing church, foster sustainable transformation, and support the broader aim of expanding the church’s reach throughout South Sudan and neighboring communities.” – Advance Group Training and Country Networks South Sudan report, 2025
Extending Our Reach
GNE’s mission extends far beyond our own events; we are deeply committed to coming alongside others to catalyze evangelism globally.
This spirit of collaboration took us to Asia, where we supported Destination Voice in Sri Lanka, and took part in training leaders from 30 different denominations and movements. We also engaged key leadership in Saigon, Vietnam, and held a strategic planning meetings with 50 leaders in Karachi, Pakistan, to lay the groundwork for a festival in 2026. In Washington DC, we attended the Pulse 100 Gathering with key GNE members and held visionary discussions about the future of evangelism.
During the powerful gathering in Karachi, organized by one of our active members, Desmond Henry – GNE International Director – ministered from John 14, using Luis Palau’s timeless challenge to “dream great dreams, plan great plans, pray great prayers, and obey great commands.” The Holy Spirit moved tangibly in that region, and we rejoiced as several Muslims came to saving faith.
The School of Evangelism at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, stood out this year as a flagship formative initiative, gathering evangelists, pastors, and scholars for an intensive week of theological depth, cultural engagement, and practical training. Anchored by daily chapel and guided reflection, the programme addressed evangelism in a post-Christian world through a carefully sequenced curriculum. Dr. Ed Stetzer provided the theological backbone, teaching on the mission of God, evangelism as process, gospel definition, contemporary defeater beliefs, and engaging secular friends.
John Dickson explored gospel confidence in contested times and the evangelistic vision of the early church, while Dr. Desmond Henry focused on proclaiming Christ in a skeptical world and exploring evangelistic typologies. Additional contributions from Amy Orr-Ewing, David Kinnaman, Rachel Jordan-Wolf, Usha Reifsnider, Aptin Samadi, Rahil Patel, Stephan Foster, Jonathan Brandt, and Clare Williams-Sarpong brought research, global perspectives, and applied insight into evangelism shaped by trauma, outrage, ethics, media, and interfaith contexts. The Oxford setting, shared meals, and curated discussions created space for deep formation, resulting in renewed confidence, sharpened gospel clarity, and practical frameworks participants are now implementing in churches, ministries, and academic contexts worldwide.
Equipping the Next Generation
Investing in emerging voices is a pillar of our work. We were honored to partner with HowToLife, underscoring our belief that equipping young evangelists is vital for the future of the Church. A special word of thanks goes to our partners at Faith2Faith Ministries, whose support is instrumental in helping us engage and equip this next generation.
This focus on global connection also saw us attend the HowToLife retreat in NYC which had representatives from 12 nations. Maintaining our presence in Africa, we came alongside GNE members at the Annual Evangelist Gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through these partnerships, we are ensuring that the fire of evangelism continues to spread across borders and generations.
Dream Great Dreams
From the dusty streets of Chinhoyi to the prisons of Cluj, from the new network rising in Peru to the planning gatherings in Pakistan, 2025 has been a testament to what happens when we refuse to limit God. We have witnessed thousands getting saved and frontiers being breached. These victories are not a place to rest but should serve as a launching pad. The hunger we witnessed in Zimbabwe in our largest campaign of the year proved that the harvest is riper than ever, and the world is waiting for a Church that is bold enough to GO!
In the spirit of the challenge shared by Luis, now is the time to dream the greatest of dreams. Christ’s great commands cannot be obeyed in isolation, especially if we are to carry out the mandate given to us to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” – Mark 16:15. The task before us demands a united front – a global family of evangelists locking arms to achieve what has been deemed impossible.
Will you walk alongside us in proclaiming the name of our Lord Jesus Christ where you are, and unto the ends of the earth? It only takes but one step to get the journey started if you are not yet part of our network.
And if you are a member, get ready for GNE to propel you to new heights in the new year. Stay in touch with our updates to see the exciting developments we have in store for our membership!
Let us step into 2026 together, dreaming bigger and reaching further than ever before, for the sake of the Lamb who is worthy.
