Advancing the Gospel through the Great Commission

The Great Commission is the responsibility of every believer to share their faith with as many people as possible and HBM has been diligently working to spread this mission. Ephesians 4:12-13 says that leaders in the church are to equip the saints for service, which will help build up Christ's body to attain  the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Hope Builders Ministries focuses on the Three Es.

1.  EQUIPPING: The HBM mission is to equip the indigenous church, which are churches made up of locals who have been equipped with God's word. This way they can make disciples and advance the Gospel in Africa and Asia where there are partnered missions that help supplement Bible training for national pastors so they may do their job better: making more disciples!.  It is the local indigenous leaders who equip their congregations who equip the Church to be disciple makers and advance the Gospel of Christ. These leaders are then better equipped to train the believers God has put in their charge. The whole congregation become disciple makers multiplying the advancement of the Gospel and are enabled to help each other "walk worthy of the Gospel."
   
   
2. EMPOWERING: HBM brings the power of Jesus Christ to Indigenous communities through disciple making. We work alongside local churches so they can be better equipped for outreach and evangelism, engaging their people where they already are with what is meaningful to them.
   
   
   
3. ENCOURAGING:  HBM has partnered with the Indigenous Church, equipping them in the Word of God and empowering them with resources to accomplish their ministry. Hope Builders continues to encourage the church through on going partnerships as they work to fulfill the Great Commission.
   • Dignity Projects focused on orphans  and widows and other vulnerable people
   • Short-term US Mission trips for men and women who are Disciple Makers to supplement leadership training and participate in local missions with the Indigenous Church
   • Strategically located conference centers
   • Medical Aid for the indigenous missionaries
   • Disaster Relief in times of famine and pandemics
   • Community Service - wells, farm development projects
     
     The local church is the best mission agency sending out their people into the local fields that are ready to harvest.
     
     " And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."  (2 Timothy 2:2,  NKJV) 

Hope Builders Ministries (HBM) developed from The Calling (2 Timothy 2:2) received by four men, one of whom was Johan Gous, working with Open Doors in Southern Africa in 1984. This began the "Timothy Project" to address the acute shortage of trained pastors in Mozambique. The "Timothy Training Institute" was established in 1990.  In 2002 Johan began work with Hope Builders. Since 2010 Johan serves as the President of Hope Builders Ministries with headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Since its inception, Hope Builders, in partnership with the Indigenous Church in Africa has established 11,000 village churches with trained pastors in eight African countries since 2001.  

HBM has enrolled pastoral leaders in a three-year Pastor Training Program, a diploma course completed by 25,000 graduates (over and above the 13,000 students served between 1985 and 2001 by Timothy Training Institute).

In 2013 Hope Builders began working with two Indigenous Missionaries in India along with their dedicated co-workers are coordinating pastor training and Disciple Making in over 4000 local churches. There have been over 1000 new churches established through the HBM India ministry.

HBM is also training indigenous missionaries in Pakistan and Bangladesh. 

Working with the Indigenous Church in Africa and Asia, Hope Builders Ministries endeavors to also encourage its partners by providing Bibles, training literature, transport and  Dignity Projects.

• Through the Bibles for Disciples program, nearly 600,000 Bibles have been distributed in Africa to faithful disciples through a network of indigenous partner churches (many in their native languages). 
• The Disciple Makers Program is HBM's  "tip of the spear" ministry. Working through local church leadership entire congregations are being purposely discipled to maturity and the propagation of the Gospel throughout local communities.
• Multiple thousands of training manuals have been printed and delivered to the various countries to train the indigenous leaders in the Word of God.
• Hope Builders has also provided bicycles and motorcycles to increase the the indigenous missionaries to reach remote and difficult areas.
• Through the Dignity Project thousands of orphans have received sustained material and spiritual care while hundreds of widows have been trained and equipped to care for these orphans.
• Many other practical tools have been given to the indigenous church to give the indigenous church a "hand up." These include vegetable seeds, garden tools, and water wells.

If you delight in the idea of rapidly winning whole communities to Christ in rural areas of Africa and Asia, we invite you to join us in this exciting and fruitful ministry!