With 4 countries represented, Catalyst is pushing back darkness by training hundreds of faithful leaders across West Africa.
West Africa Project has…
359 students from 134 churches
14 training groups
5 graduations in 2025
4 Countries
Nigeria
The NIGERIA project site was established October 2016, and the first training took place June 2017. The first training in June saw over 200 participants during the week. While the strategy isn’t to see how many we can train, the size of this cohort shows the desire and need in this location. They understand the challenge to make disciples of their nation. As part of a church planting network, the leaders we are training present the vision of multi-generational discipleship and church planting. Catalyst is providing training to help move these leaders towards sound doctrine, godly practice, and healthy models of church planting.
The training in Nigeria has grown to include 5 sites. We are excited to see this multiplication of the training and the new opportunities for reaching multitudes through these disciples!
NIGERIA IMPACT STORY
Our main Regional Coordinator, Victor Suleman has been with Catalyst from the beginning of the West Africa project. When we were planning to engage in work in Kaduna, Victor was the Church Planting strategist for the District Church Council. Last year he transitioned to serving in a local body in Kaduna, but continued to serve as our Regional Coordinator. We began to consider how he might reproduce the training into a new location during 2019. He settled on a location 2 hours south of Abuja called Nasarawra. This has been an exciting new location for Catalyst consisting of 15-20 key ministry leaders in Nigeria.
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast: In December 2016, we received a message from a young pastor in the Ivory Coast, James. He wrote the organization to express his need for training in order to complete the ministry the Lord had given him in the city of San Pedro. Because we were not in a position to adopt another new project in 2017, we told James that we could train him using Skype and reevaluate opportunities for residential training in 2018. Since this time, we conducted training on a weekly basis with James online, providing instruction on pastoral ministry and harvest church planting, and have named James national coordinator in the Ivory Coast.
The Ivory Coast training has grown rapidly over the past few years. Having graduated our first cohort group of students in Yamoussoukro in October 2020, we have transitioned to a new central site in Abidjan. As we have encountered areas of great need and deep hunger for the Word, the Lord has provided the groundwork for leaders in 4 different regions of Ivory Coast to be released into the harvest.
The plan for 2026 is to continue training our cohort groups in 5 training groups in Ivory Coast and another training group in the country of Mali.
IVORY COAST IMPACT STORY
We are grateful to see how the training is being multiplied through Catalyst students in order to reach the lost and plant new churches. We recently received this report about the work from James, our regional coordinator for pastor training: “Pastor M, a student of Catalyst Missions in Yamoussoukro can go all over the villages in the region to plant new churches, and also he trains these new souls to reproduce as well. May God continue to bless the vision of Catalyst Missions.”
