Reports

Progress can be reported through maps and statistics, but also through stories of kingdom wins and faith steps taken. Read our sister’s testimony of how the Zume Training helped her be a disciple who makes disciples:

“It taught me new ways to share the Gospel. I learned and God continued to speak to me in the lesson that we studied. I liked so much having a group with whom I could talk and share about how God speaks to us through different ways, experiences, and testimonies. It is so good to have a group who has the same passion as me.”

-V, a Zume Trainee

A couple in their late twenties offered to lead multiple Zume courses over the last 18 months. They also led organic trainings. As a result of those efforts they have seen 102 new 3/3rds groups started, 48 of which are still meeting. There are 612 current participants in those 48 3/3rds groups. They have seen 53 baptisms among 4 different generations. All glory to God!

David Jones gives his take on evangelism — that he fervently believes the gospel is to be given to all people.  In order to share the gospel, David describes his steps that have given him great success in not only planting the seed, but also nurturing it into second and third generation Christians.  Evangelism is a personal endeavor that takes commitment and time investment.  He also gives some foundations for Zúme ministry. 

David gives tips on some areas to target for evangelism and how to prepare evangelists and the target areas through prayer and initiating relationships.  He also goes on to give insight to the steps he typically takes to evangelize and minister.   Zúme becomes a tool to develop new disciples and is ideal for introduction once a relationship is established.  The bottom line is that we have the endorsement of Jesus himself and we need to be bold in spreading the gospel.

Check out https://zume.vision/multiplying-disciples-podcast/ to listen to the podcast.

The latest Zúme Multiplying Disciples podcast released yesterday. Go to wherever you get your podcasts to hear Tim’s story from Dallas, Texas.

Tim serves as a leader and resource for Christian work throughout the world, with a focus on church planting and growth in North America. He was one of the pioneers of the Zúme-style discipleship in the United States before the Zúme platform really began to grow exponentially. He has seen Zúme do amazing things in the Dallas, Texas area as well as throughout the world.

Tim has focused on influencing church growth since he was very new to Christianity in the early 1980’s. He endorses Zúme as a platform to not only teach, but really mentor young disciples through interactive learning and doing. He shares exciting stories of how God is able to use people from all experience levels to spread the good news as well as establish new house churches and multi-generational growth.

Tim reflects on his own experiences early on for establishing small church plants and house churches and would have liked for the Zúme resources to have been available then because they streamline the discipleship process and target the multiplication of outreach through person to person contact and mentorship.

https://zume.vision/tim-ahlen/

We published the latest episode of the Zúme podcast yesterday.

You can listen to our interview with Marlene. She serves as a leader and provides resources for Christian work in South Africa and many African countries. She was one of the early adopters of Zúme and has seen it create vision and clarity among nationals and expatriates in her organization.

She has seen surprising responses among even administrative personnel from sending home offices, who find that they can be part of disciple making in ways that they did not expect. 

In the early days, she asked teams to just “check out” the training, but she would not do that again. She found that she would approach teams to not come to Zúme in an evaluation mode, but rather with a commitment to do it and experience the fruit of action.

We’re excited to share that the Zúme podcast is now live!

Zúme is a community of practice for those who want to see disciple making movements. Our vision is to saturate the world with multiplying disciples in our generation. This podcast interviews the practitioners of the community around the world.

You can subscribe in all of the various podcast platforms at https://zume.vision/subscribe-to-podcast/.

On Monday, a group launched a Zúme on Zoom training. They cut off registrations at 245 registrants. Some of the 245 registrants are not just individuals, they are sites with multiple people present. One site has 26 people represented. They organized each registrant into subgroups for all of the discussions of the Zúme training sessions. Everyone has a number which indicates their group and their participant number within the group. This also helps with security because the participants are in a sensitive country.

A Zúme training participant recently shared his story. You can read it in his own words:

“After learning on making disciples, the simple process outlined has been very helpful. It is simple to learn and replicate. After learning I moved intentionally and prayed. I believed God to lead me and sent me to a place He intended to visit. Then moved intentionally to a village where I meet a man by the name Thomas. I started talking to him and with intention of working out our relationship. He became a Person of Peace and a great door to enter that community. After one month we started a discovery Bible study with his family. Obedient based discipleship, strictly obeying what you have learned and sharing with your neighbor. This has led to increase in our group and multiplication of groups within the village. Also multiplication of disciples and leaders. Now there is a great need to develop leaders to lead groups and sent others to start in other parts of the village. There is a lot happening. Thanks.”

A recent training in East Asia consisted of 38 participants. Those 38 participants led 138 people to faith during the training! Here are a few comments from the participants:

As the name suggests, “ZUME” is really fermenting fast, thanks to God’s Holy Spirit for writing such a beautiful, simple and effective course through the author. This course has brought a sensation to the church, and will also bring revival. “ZUME” will live up to the author’s hard work, and will go down in the “chronicles” of history as the most powerful spiritual tool to deliver souls to the church.

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Thank you Lord for your grace! I was given the opportunity to attend this ZUME study. The total eleven study is coming to an end before I knew it. I always feel unfulfilled with the two-hour class every week and longing for more. I have been a believer for so many years, and since the beginning of my faith, I have had a burden for souls and a willingness to preach the Gospel, but I have never been able to do so. This time, I used the Four Spiritual Laws that my teacher taught me, and then I led people to make a decision to Christ, and it became easier. This method has really helped me. I have since rekindled the message of evangelism and put it into action. Save one and count one. Just keep doing this and there will be fruit. If every Christian obeys the teacher’s teaching in this way, they are obeying the Lord’s teaching and practicing the Great Commission, which will speed up evangelism and bring more people to know the Lord earlier. That’s what the Lord wants. This is such a great tool. The SOAPS Bible Study method in ZUME, Prayer Walk, duckling 🦆 leading discipleship with ducklings 🦆, prayer circles, these are all great tools for evangelism. I will continue to use these tools and keep working on them, and depending on the Lord. Thank you Lord for your grace!

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I pray every day that God will help me and guide me to do his kingdom work; He answered my prayer by sending me to [this] Zume training. SOAPS solidifies my daily walk in seeking first God‘s righteousness and His kingdom. “Duckling discipleship” prompts me to lead and serve whenever I can and always point others to God. I am applying “3-in-1 group meeting” with members in my Bible study group, and pray that with the help of the Holy Spirit, we will be fruitful in making disciples.

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