Zero Hour
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Zero Hour Ministries was ignited out of a desire to shift the tide of a hurting and lost generation through specific disciple-making trips and trainings. We believe God’s people are made for more. It is the birthright of every child of God to be a loving missionary and disciple-maker where they live, work, learn, and play. Our aim is to plant the gospel in networks of relationships across the city, see disciples made, and witness Student Teams emerge in every high school in the Kansas City metro area. Zero Hour Teams are specialized Disciple-Making Teams that are filled with students who have been trained through Zero Hour to be disciple-makers who live in everyday gospel community, led by ordinary students, and who own the mission of Jesus in their school. The focus in these clubs is on missional prayer, sharing the gospel, and community. They are intended to be missional in nature to help students live as disciple-makers to bring the beauty, justice, and Good News of Jesus to Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Thrive
Thrive Hub emerged in 2022 from a Hesed space where a couple of guys decided to extend the Kingdom by including friends and their spouses who wanted to be spiritual family together. From there, a microchurch emerged with 8 people, and then the year after grew to over 20 people. Thrive believes in the 5-fold APEST expression of shared leadership. Their mission is to encourage, equip, and activate everyday, ordinary people to discover their destiny and live fully alive from the heart Jesus gave them. They help individuals become thriving disciples of Jesus by learning how to create an emotionally healthy Kingdom culture together. Now 1 year in, they continue to make disciples that make disciples that make disciples.
For the Nations
For the Nations is a team of people who have a desire to see the Gospel move in and through international communities in Kansas City. Their primary focus is to engage immigrant and refugee families in Kansas City, KS through the ministry of soccer. Last year, God miraculously connected this team with a faith-based soccer club called KCK United. With 250+ youth athletes on the various KCK United teams (ranging from 3rd grade through High School), the For the Nations crew is now engaging over a hundred families representing more than a dozen nationalities. In addition to a head coach, each KC United team has an assistant coach who has been trained in the Missionary Pathway and is actively living as a missionary among the kids and families that represent their club team. This fall they’re seeing Discovery Bible Studies and microchurch communities getting started among many of these teams, with the hope that the Good News of Jesus would be unleashed among the families and communities in Kansas City, KS.
E-2 Network
In fall ‘21, the Equip and Encourage Army Discipleship Network (E-2) was launched as a Hub of the KC Underground. Our mission is to serve disciple-makers in the US Army by equipping and encouraging them virtually to make disciples wherever they are sent around the world. Soldiers are mission-oriented. They voluntarily embrace a difficult and dangerous lifestyle. They are used to spending time away from their families. They understand the sacrifices required to do a mission greater than themselves, and, they are willing to embrace ambiguity and chaos.
Independence Hub
The Independence Hub of the KC Underground emerged in 2022. We’ve had over 40 people commit to living on mission after going through the missionary pathway. Eight microchurches have emerged just in the last two months.
One friend in particular, never viewed herself as a missionary or church planter, but because she listens to Jesus and does what Jesus says she started a Discovery Bible Study. That study went from one person to 38 in about six weeks and is equipping ten new leaders to step into their roles as missionaries in their contexts to see ordinary people come to Jesus.