Across the world, the Church is facing a quiet but serious challenge.

Children still fill Sunday School classrooms, but somewhere in the season between childhood and youth, many begin to drift. When faith is no longer something they’re carried into, but something they must choose, too many choose to walk away.

And when that happens, the future of the Church is at risk.

Pastor Alan and his wife, Janine

Pastor Alan and his wife, Janine, lead Yahweh’s Holy Temple Ministries International in Cape Town, South Africa. We met them about four years ago when their ministry was just getting off the ground in a tent pitched on a sandy lot in Delft, a community overrun by gangs and drugs.

Pastor Alan had watched boys he once knew by name disappear into gang life before they were teenagers. Surrounded by hopelessness, many were being actively groomed for gang life. He understood what was at stake not only for the community but also for the future of the Church.

Not just a program – a pathway

When Pastor Alan was introduced to the discipleship approach Tomorrow Clubs was beginning to implement in South Africa, working through and with the local church, he was all in. Soon, South Africa’s first Tomorrow Club was meeting in his tent church.

They discovered the Tomorrow Club wasn’t simply another activity to add to the calendar. “It was a pathway,” Pastor Alan says. “A way to walk with children through their most formative years, the ‘in-between’ season when faith is either embraced or forgotten.”

Tomorrow Club meeting

Shaping the Church of Tomorrow

For this young church, consistent, Christ-centered discipleship of the next generation was transformational.

Children began inviting other children. Those children brought their parents. Families started coming to church together.

The fruit was unmistakable. Last year alone:

• 70 families joined the church through the discipleship of their children.
• 132 adults came to repentance, as a direct result of children bringing their parents.

Today, more than 70% of Pastor Alan’s congregation is made up of young people. Youth and young adults are now the fastest-growing part of the church. The very gap that once threatened the future of the ministry has become the place where new life is taking root.

Pastor Alan often returns to Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” “The word old,” he explains, “means mature. When a child truly understands what they’ve been taught, they carry it with them for life.”

“If the Holy Spirit doesn’t fill a town,” Pastor Alan says, “something else will. And the way we prepare a town for God’s work is by discipling its children.”

In his community, that conviction has brought transformation.

Homes are being restored. Children are doing better academically. Families are returning to the house of God.

“I would shut down everything else in the church,” he says honestly, “but I would never walk away from Tomorrow Clubs. When you shape the life of a child, you shape a family. And when you shape families, you shape the future of the Church.”

Partnership matters

Stories like Pastor Alan’s are possible because partners like you believe that discipling the next generation is not optional, it’s foundational.

Tomorrow Clubs strengthen the local church. We walk alongside pastors and leaders, equipping them with a discipleship pathway for children and teenagers, so churches are renewed from the inside out.

Not quick fixes. Not short-term programs. But children growing up rooted in Christ, families being drawn back to faith, and churches becoming vibrant, multi-generational communities once again.

As Pastor Alan says so simply and sincerely:

“Tomorrow Clubs work – because God is at work in the life of every child we reach.”

And the seeds being planted today will bear fruit for generations to come.

Tomorrow Club, Delft, South Africa