Disciple Making on the Front Lines: Felix in Yaoundé, Cameroon
In Yaoundé, Cameroon, disciple making is not limited by language, geography, or church walls. It moves through relationships, long conversations, and weekly rhythms that stretch across borders.
That is where Felix does his work.
Felix has trained with NewBreed for years and now serves as a disciple maker and trainer among both English and French-speaking pastors. From Cameroon, he regularly invests in leaders not only in his home country, but also in Nigeria and Liberia. When Felix learns something, he teaches it. And when he teaches it, it multiplies.
Before Discipology, Felix describes his approach to disciple making as deeply relational but largely informal. “My approach to discipleship has been more of creating contact one on one, journeying with the people and getting to understand who they are,” he said. “I have done more listening and been vulnerable in the journey of discipleship and taking into consideration the context, allowing challenges to come as we journey together.”
That posture of presence mattered, but Discipology introduced a shift in how Felix understood the nature and aim of discipleship itself. “This training has really changed our perspective,” he said. “To me now, discipleship is not a program, but it is a lifestyle taken from Jesus’ approach of disciple making.”
That change reshaped his focus. “I have shifted from just spreading the seed to going for the front-liners, and mostly the young ones called into ministry,” Felix said. “Jesus was more organized and focused in His approach.”
He recalls a recent conversation that crystallized the shift. “In my session this week with Pastor Lazarus, he said, ‘Jesus was intentional, and He didn’t want to waste time with those that do not engage,’” Felix said, referencing John 1:38.
Time, Felix notes, has become one of the central tensions Discipology has helped him confront, especially across cultures and contexts. “The obstacle I have been able to overcome is time and structure,” he said. “The disciple making approach of the pastors of Nigeria and that of Cameroon are all different, so I have structured theirs based on Google calls, because that is the platform that best goes with them.”
Language has added another layer of complexity. “I have overcome clarity,” he said. “We have French-speaking disciples, and the lessons are all interpreted for clarity purposes.”
Today, Felix is actively discipling young pastors and leaders across multiple nations. “I am currently working with young pastors and leaders from 25 to 40 years of age in Cameroon and out of Cameroon, like in Nigeria and Liberia,” he said.
Many of them come from ministry backgrounds where disciple making was reduced to activities. “They come from a traditional background of ministry where disciple making was a program,” Felix said. “Some thought that disciple making is just sharing flyers, and others thought that having a banquet with people quarterly is making disciples.”
Discipology, he says, has challenged those assumptions. “These are the kinds of mindsets and worldviews that have been shaping them,” Felix said. “Thank God for Discipology. We have a lot of impact.”
That impact becomes visible in moments when leaders begin to see Jesus’ approach more clearly. “With Lazarus from Nigeria, he told me this week, ‘Wow, Jesus was intentional. I have not been intentional,’” Felix said. “When Jesus asked the disciples of John, ‘What are you seeking?’ you could hear him say, ‘Please, I need another session.’”
Felix sees similar hunger among French-speaking leaders as well. “After a session, Randonne told me, ‘Please, Pastor Felix, teach me all you have learned from Discipology,’” he said.
To support that growth, Felix has begun structuring his disciple making intentionally. “I have structured my disciple making into four levels,” he said. “Level one is frontline leaders who are pastors. Level two is the leaders of different churches. Level three is French-speaking leaders. Level four is leaders from outside Cameroon.”
For Felix, Discipology has ordered his relationships. “It helps me be intentional about time in disciple making,” he said, “and also shaping how people in my context view time and manage time.”
From Yaoundé outward, Felix continues to live what he teaches, receiving and releasing what he learns, and helping leaders move from activity to intentional formation, one relationship at a time.
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