"Go to America and preach the Gospel for my people are confused" 

That was the mandate that Jonathan received in 2020 when returning from the mission field in Africa. It resonated with his soul and echoed true in the depth of his spirit. In the eight years prior to receiving this mandate, Jonathan had never forgotten about the original calling that he received upon getting to know Jesus in 2012 at the age of nineteen. A deep love for the church was birthed in Jonathan's heart in that moment. An urgency arose inside of him to see reformation and revival in the churches.

In the eight years that followed, Jon lived in obedience to God's guidance even though it sometimes felt like God's guidance pulled him further away from that original call to minister to the Christian church. Through it all, Jonathan realized that God was preparing him for something greater; he realized that God was working on him and his character to prepare him for what was to come. In 2020 it was finally time. The Lord sent him to America to minister to Christians.

There are many churches in the Christian world that are stuck. These churches see glimpses of renewal, bursts of hunger, waves of life, and sometimes even miracles, but they never seem to arrive in that promised land that the early church experienced. Complacency reigns, frustration lingers, internal problems manifest and take over, people come and go, traction is gained and lost again, and God's kingdom is never quite established in those communities.

This is because the Western church has departed from God's early church model because of traditions, lifeless doctrines, and man-made leadership structures. There is often an extreme lack of the guidance of the Holy Spirit that is accompanied by an increasing lack of knowledge about God's ways.

Jon's mission is to come alongside those churches, to walk with them, and to lead them back to the New Testament model that brought forth so much fruit for the early church. Besides teaching God's ways for the church based on scripture, Jon also focuses on individuals within those churches. In his experience, the majority of Christians do not know their giftings and the calling that is on their lives. His ministry focuses on raising up ministers, leaders, and helpers within those local churches so that they can successfully build God's kingdom locally.

Jonathan does not come in as a pastor, but rather in an apostolic oversight role to help the local leadership to fulfill their calling. Jon walks with existing leadership teams, helps churches to find suitable leaders from without or to raise up suitable leaders from within. Jon relies on the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help local churches. Every church is different, every situation is different, and every community that surrounds a local church comes with its blessings and challenges. Yet there is an answer to every situation in the abundant wisdom of the Holy Spirit and the infallible truths of scripture.