Movement Conversations - Powered By New Generations North America

Harry is the President of New Generations and sits on the Board of Directors. Prior to founding New Generations, Harry was responsible for launching the church planting division for Cityteam International in 1996, re-envisioning the team around movements in 2005, and shepherding the vision, as the indigenous leaders catalyzed over 120 movements, encompassing 50k new churches and over 1.5 million new disciples in the next twelve yea...

The theme of Roy’s life can be described as “an addiction to creating Disciple Making Movements (DMM)”. In the past five years, he has traveled the world studying the great movements of the gospel in Indonesia, India, Africa, South America, and Europe. These travels have lead to the development of a Hybrid Strategy at Shoal Creek and the dedication to see movements of disciple-making in the US begin out of Kansas City.

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Ryan Kozey- PhD SUNY at Buffalo (2008); Post-Doctoral Fellowship SUNY at Buffalo (2009); MA Biblical Studies Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (2016).

Former Director of Strategic Initiatives- The Chapel at Crosspoint, Buffalo, NY

Currently, a research analyst serving the Church through SCP North America and Christ Together.

Director of Global Connections- an International Student Ministry at Bowling Green State University.

John Kenneth King is the Global Coach of Final Command Ministries (FCM). He is married to Debra (Hastings). They have two adult children and two grandchildren. John’s responsibilities are to develop training materials and to train, coach and mentor people who will catalyze Disciple Making Movements locally and globally. These efforts have taken him to Africa, Asia, Europe and numerous states in the U.S. and also Canada.

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Matthew W. Bates (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is Associate Professor of Theology at Quincy University. His main teaching area is the Bible and early Christian literature. He also teaches courses in Western Religion, Church History, and Christian Spirituality. Dr. Bates is an award-winning author. His popular and influential books include Gospel Allegiance (Brazos, 2019), Salvation by Allegiance Alone (Baker Academic, 2017), an...

Stan is a CPM trainer and a coach for leaders of CPMs around the world. He is Co-Facilitator of the 24:14 Coalition which is focused on Kingdom Movement engagements in every Unreached People and place by 2025. He is the VP for Global Strategies with Beyond. Stan and his wife Kay have been serving Unreached People Groups since 1994 while based in Indonesia, Singapore and Dubai. Their 3 adult children grew up in Indonesia and Singapo...

Cory has been a pastor and leader in the church for 15 years, and has been actively engaged in Disciple Making Movement ministry for the past 6 years. His mentors include catalysts from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, which led him to pursue ministry “on the margins.” In the last couple of years Cory has helped catalyze movement activity in the local county jails where they’ve see hundreds of inmates come to Jesus...

Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond.  Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They regularly lead church planting movement trainings around the world. He also equips people to better understand mission strategy, and biblical theology of missions.

Previously, he served as a strategy coordinator focused on catalyzing Disciple-making Movements among unreached people groups (UPGs) in Southeast Asia. He c...

Chris Galanos is the Founding Pastor of Experience Life Church in Lubbock, TX, which is now a network of many churches meeting across the nation. He graduated from Southwestern Seminary in 2006 and then started Experience Life in his living room in the Spring of 2007. In the first 10 years of Experience Life’s history, God allowed the church to help over 13,000 people commit their lives to Christ & baptize over 7,000 people. To...

David Young serves as the senior minister for the North Boulevard Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has worked for churches in Missouri, Kansas, and Tennessee, taught New Testament at several universities, and traveled widely teaching and preaching. He is the former host of the New Day Television Program, a board member for the Renew Network, and the author of several books, including A New Day (NB Press), The Rhetoric of Jesus...