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.