Measuring Impact on a Global Scale

Over the past few years, we have discussed how the OCGA Annual Ministry Report was not being broadly used by our Mobilization Centers, despite the significant time required to produce it.

In response, the Global Alliance formed a task force last year in Guatemala to review and redesign the report. After surveying MC leaders, researchers, fundraisers, and key partners, we confirmed the need for a major revision. Our goals were to:

​• Highlight ministry impact rather than activities

​• Align the report with our stated outcomes

​• Shorten and simplify the AMR

​• Reduce reporting questions

​• Move nonessential team information into more useful formats

​• Combine essential metrics with meaningful stories

The International AMR Revision Team worked over several months to reshape the way we collect our data, the type of data we collect, and how we interpret that data.  The result is an Annual Ministry Report that specifically measures our global impact in developing leaders, multiplying churches and discipling all nations.

Here are some of the numbers.  15 Mobilization Centers + 99 ministry teams, = 95 countries where we ministered in 2025.

Resulting in:

​ ​Leaders Developed!

​ ​ ​105,000 Leaders Coached or trained.

​ ​Churches Planted!

​ ​ ​36,000 New churches established (including traditional and non- ​ ​ ​ ​traditional models)

​ ​Discipled Nations!

​ ​ ​233,000 New disciples of Jesus Christ worldwide

​ ​ ​10,000 Individuals quipped for missional service

Numbers are important but they do not tell the whole story.  Each number represents a church or individual whose life was impacted by our ministry.  To help measure the personal side of our work, we also collected over one hundred and fifty specific stories about how our ministry impacted the people and communities where we serve.

One example of the impact represented in this year’s report comes from a team serving in Southeast Asia. A small group of local believers—trained only a year ago—has grown into a multiplying network of leaders. One of these leaders, once hesitant even to pray aloud, now gathers his extended family weekly to study Scripture. That small gathering has already resulted in a new house church, demonstrating how God is using ordinary people to bring extraordinary transformation.

Another worker in South America reported, "We are developing a project with one of the largest denominations in our country, with 14,000 churches.  We are working with about 650 of their churches to help implant a culture of discipleship and leadership development.  In the past four years we have had 18,000 people involved in discipleship across the denomination.  In the coming years this will change the dynamics of this denomination and all of their churches!"

God is working through our people in large and small ways to impact the world for His Glory!