Jerry Trousdale and his wife Gayle were church planters among a Muslim people group in West Africa in the 1970’s. Later he pastored mission sending churches in California and Tennessee. He also served in Christian publishing and broadcasting. In 2002 Jerry and some of his African colleagues were exposed to the early Kingdom movements of Asia, and they began a process of learning to catalyze them in Africa, co-founding Final Command Ministries in 2003. Since 2005 Jerry has served as Director of International Ministries for New Generations (formerly Cityteam International) where, in partnership with hundreds of Global South ministries, more than 430 people groups have been successfully engaged in 29 countries. 110 of those engagements have become Disciple Making Movements with at least 100 churches and four generations of churches planting churches.