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 Podcast, Hardcore 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 Story, Making Disciples, How to Multiply Your Church, Starting 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
Scott Griffith
Pete Lhamon