NewBreed's Trainers

Here's a closer look at our trainers' experience and where you can connect with them.

Peyton Jones

Peyton Jones is a serial church planter, author, speaker, outreach consultant, and founder of NewBreed Training. Born in Washington, D.C. but raised in Huntington Beach, CA (Surf City), he married the girl he fell in love with at 17. He is the proud father of two amazing girls.

Peyton served as a youth pastor, assistant pastor, and interim pastor of the mega church Refuge Huntington Beach that has served as his sending church since 1999 when he embarked on a 12-year mission to Wales UK. Originally serving as the Evangelist at Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s historic Sandfields church, Peyton served as both the interim pastor, and helped them plant their first church. From there, Peyton engaged in a replant of a Baptist congregation in West Wales, which grew and led to Peyton planting a collegiate church in a neutral venue based around discussion groups. Peyton’s church planting experience include planting a church out of a Starbucks, which multiplied three churches, to planting a church in urban Long Beach, that also planted two other churches.

In both the U.K. and United States, Peyton formed NewBreed Training, a training collective that specializes planting in hard places utilizing 1st century principles. NewBreed is a collaborative network and Peyton has served Presbyterian (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist), Baptist, Southern Baptist, Calvary Chapel, RCA, and Nazarene churches over the years. Peyton has also been bi-vocational for nearly 20 years, using his RN license, serving as a firefighter, factory worker, barista, online university instructor, or anything that will help him accomplish the mission.

Peyton also co-founded Church Planter Magazine, the Church Planter PodcastHardcore Church Planting Podcast, and the Ministry Ninja Podcast. Peyton is passionate about writing (Church Zero 2013; Reaching The Unreached 2017; and Church Plantology 2021), and training. Training under Mac Lake, Peyton assisted NAMB in a training rewrite project, and managed training for the Western United States/Canada. In addition, Peyton has developed his own training called CityWide that trains planters in collaborative church planting teams wired for multiplication, and Jump School (a six-month training for planters to train their core teams). Peyton has also served as Content Director for both Exponential and Through the Word, helping develop transformative resources for a wide audience of Christians and church leaders.

Ralph Moore

Ralph Moore is the Founding Pastor of three churches which grew into the Hope Chapel 'movement' now numbering more than 2,300 churches, worldwide. These are the offspring of the 70+ congregations launched from Ralph's hands-on disciplemaking efforts.

He currently serves as "Church Multiplication Catalyzer" for Exponential. In addition to this, he travels the globe, teaching church multiplication to pastors in startup movements. He's authored several books, including Let Go Of the Ring: The Hope Chapel StoryMaking DisciplesHow to Multiply Your ChurchStarting a New Church, and Defeating Anxiety.

Andrea Jones

Andrea Jones is a proud mother of two wonderful daughters, wife to Peyton Jones, and the co-founder of NewBreed Training. She is an educator, public speaker, leadership coach, and freelance writer with a passion for empowering others. Andrea earned her B.A. in English Education from California State University, Long Beach, before spending twelve years in the United Kingdom, where she earned her MFA at the University of Wales Lampeter.

With over thirty years of ministry experience, Andrea has dedicated her life to teaching and serving both in the U.S. and abroad. She has taught in both public and private schools and spent twelve years as a bi-vocational church planter in Wales, U.K. Before church planting in the UK, Andrea served as a missionary to Thailand where she taught English and served the local missionary. In addition to this, Andrea has led youth teams serving in Mexico and New Zealand to support church planters in those countries.

Andrea is an ordained minister with the Free Methodist Church and co-planting her first Free Methodist church, The Abbey, in San Diego, California.

Brooks Hamon

Brooks is the Content Director for NewBreed Training where he oversees operations and the development of training materials. He has has been involved in church planting and equipping planters for over a decade from mega to micro church contexts.

Brooks is the general editor of Together with Networks and Candid Conversations: Pursuing Racial Righteousness in the Church, which featured contributors like John Perkins, Matt Chandler, and Léonce Crump. He has written multiple feature articles for Outreach Magazine on church planting networks, and was a writer and producer for the Church Plantology Podcast which platformed the efforts of church planters in over a dozen countries in their own voices. In addition, Brooks has served as a producer for the Church Planter Podcast, Team Leadership Podcast, and Ralph Moore Podcast.

Brooks holds a BA in Political Science from UNCW and a MA in American History from SNHU. Previously Brooks developed resources and organized conferences for Exponential and was part of the team that launched Exponential Español.

Beau Moffatt

Beau Moffatt has been involved in church planting since 2015. He planted his first church, One House, with an APEST focus. He has been a trainer for NAMB and Newbreed for the past four years, training church planters to plant churches that plant churches. His heart is to see Kingdom centered churches that are focused on loving Jesus, His People, and His mission. He is involved in his second church plant called The Abbey in North County San Diego and he is currently the Advancement Director for NewBreed.

Chestly Lunday

Chestly Lunday is highly regarded as an international speaker, coach, and consultant helping people defeat futility in life and the workplace. Having given over 1000 unique presentations, he has worked with denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention, The Assemblies of God, the Christian Reformed Church, and The Reformed Church in America as well as multiple businesses. Chestly has over a decade of developing leaders from all walks of life. Chestly is on the cutting edge of innovation in the religious non- profit sector, co-founding Digital Church Network, training and connecting Digital Church leaders all around the world. Chestly’s insights help leaders facing the prospect of irrelevance in their ministries by helping them build a cohesive strategy around digital community and discipleship.

Felix Ndukong

Felix is a church planter and network leader in Cameroon. He has trained church planting teams in both English and French-speaking contexts. In addition to his home country of Cameroon, Felix trains planters from other West African nations and is establishing a hub that can catalyze church planting teams in a variety of contexts.

Rudy Marte

Rudy Marte is the director of multiplication for the Southeast Region Conference, which he has also served in various roles including as a member of the Ministerial Education and Guidance (MEG) Board & SRC Nominating Committee. He previously served as the associate pastor of Iglesia Puente de Vida in Tampa, Florida. He is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary with a master’s degree in church planting and intercultural studies, Logos University with a bachelor’s degree in Christian education, Colegio Loyola with a bachelor’s degree in electronics, and Suffolk Community College with an associate’s degree in network design and administration. He is happily married to his wife, Griselda Marte, and they have two sons, Gasel and Randy.

Marie Fontus

Marie Fontus is a bivocational trainer, serving her community as a registered nurse. She trains English and Creole-speaking ministers for NewBreed and the Free Methodist Church.

Marcus Jones

Marcus is a follower Christ, husband, father to 4 beautiful daughters, and pastor at Refuge Fellowship in Wildwood, FL. He graduated from Furman University in Greenville, SC in 2011 and will graduate from Liberty University with his Masters of Divinity in 2024. Marcus has been in vocational ministry since 2018, working as the Care & Outreach Pastor at Trailside Church in Travelers Rest, SC before planting Refuge Fellowship in Florida in 2023. Discipleship and the life-changing, transformational experience a person has through a deep, personal relationship with Christ, has been the core focus of Marcus’s ministry since the beginning. He is incredibly passionate for and advocates mental health with faith integration for which he provides individual pastoral mentoring and networks with local mental health professionals. He has previous teaching experience with leading the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and Relationships courses by Peter and Geri Scazzero since 2020 and was part of the launch team for the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship book in 2021. Marcus has been with NewBreed as a cohort participant since 2023 and is both honored and excited to now teach “Becoming Disciples” starting September 23, 2024! In his free time, Marcus enjoys time with family and friends, martial arts, playing piano and singing, and nerding out with a book or games.”

Scott Griffith

Scott Griffith has been serving local church ministry in different settings since 2013. He was ordained in the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia in 2019 and is dedicated to exploring how the local church can re-discover its identity as a missional movement that Jesus started.

Pete Lhamon

Pete is a full-time Disciple-Maker and part-time General Contractor. Pete and his wife Casey have three children, Tristan, Adrienne, and Nora. Pete has been intentionally making disciples for over 10 years and two years ago Pete sold his business to step into Disciple-Making full-time. God has led Pete to opportunities to work one on one to make disciples in and outside the walls of the church. He uses a simple approach that is repeatable and transformative with an end goal of producing disciples that make disciples. God is leading Pete and his family to plant an intentional Disciple-Making church with a vision that will plant other Disciple-Making churches all over Northern Michigan.
The Lhamon’s enjoy bowling, traveling, beaches, movies at the theater, hunting, fishing, and hanging with family and friends.