Galen Burkholder
Galen Burkholder is the founder and CEO of Global Disciples, which works to equip and train followers of Jesus, so that every person has an opportunity to hear the good news in a way they can understand and respond. Prior to launching Global Disciples in 1996, Galen worked in youth and young adult ministry, discipleship-mission training, and sending teams cross-culturally. Global Disciples now serves over 1,450 clusters of churches in sixty-two countries. They have helped launch more than 2,000 training programs, and in the past decade, these programs have seen over 400,000 new believers added to the kingdom, most of whom now worship in 18,000 fellowships, planted mainly among people least-reached with the gospel.
"In North America, we have domesticated Jesus. We have created a Savior whose primary role is to make our lives comfortable. We equate being a Christian with being a good person and living a good life. And we have confused being a disciple with acquiring the right head knowledge … something we can look up and master on the Internet.”
- Galen Burkholder and Brother Tefera, Ordinary Disciples, Extraordinary Influence: Stories to Fuel a Life of Unshakable Faith
