Resourcing of Disciple Making Movements: Principles and Practices for Practitioners in the Context of Rwanda

This project addresses the need for principles that can guide disciple-makers, leaders, churches, and missional organizations as they partner together in disciple-making movements. Movement practitioners need partnership principles that ensure movement growth and sustainability as they share the resources God provides. The pursuit to discover guiding principles arose in the context of the Africa Transformation Network, a ministry in Rwanda where a multinational team came together in a missional organization to work towards a shared vision of “Kingdom Communities of Obedient Disciples Transforming and Redeeming Rwanda.” The project used a qualitative research method
with forty-eight movement practitioners to discover the principles they were using in their partnerships. The project summarizes the organizational and missional changes Africa Transformation Network, Inc. and Africa Transformation Network-Rwanda made as they implemented the discovered principles. A workshop introducing the principles was designed and carried out with movement practitioners at a conference in Nairobi, Kenya.