Bekele Shanko is the global vice presiden for Global Church Moments at Campus Crusade for Christ International (Cru), working in over 150 countries to build movements of multiplying churches and faith communities. A native of Ethiopia, he has served as Cru’s National Director of Ethiopia and Regional Director of Southern and Eastern Africa. Bekele is the President of GACX and leads the church planting focus for Finishing the Task.
Partnership is essential to fulfill the Great Commission. In this article, Dr. Bekele Shanko shares a few reasons and steps for initiating, developing and managing partnerships.
In his opening message at the 2022 GACX Forum, Bekele Shanko shares the Biblical mandate for making disciples and filling the earth with God's glory.
The second chapter of Acts records what happened on the day of Pentecost when Jesus’ disciples received the Holy Spirit. They and God-fearing Jews from all over the world bore witness to the birth of the global Church.
GACX’s vision is to see a living, vital church of Jesus Christ established among every 1000 people everywhere.
Bekele Shanko details why church multiplication -- as opposed to church addition -- is essential to providing a healthy church for every thousand people in the world.
During the 2020 Global Forum, GACX President Bekele Shanko describes how the God-size vision of planting a new, reproducing church for every 1,000 people on the planet came about.
The GACX Global Forum is one of the most strategically important events that I attend every year. But as GACX’s chairman, it’s my job to say that!
GACX members have a key role in helping form national and regional alliances.
Two weeks after officially reporting to my new job with Campus Crusade for Christ, I was appointed national director of Ethiopia.
In January 2017, thirty-three leaders of Cru’s Global Church Movements (GCM) from 22 countries of Africa and the Middle East gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Why do you think Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “Our Father in heaven…Your kingdom come?” What do you think we are saying whenever we pray this prayer?
“Together Now” is the theme for the GACX Forum 2016. We have chosen these two words to capture what we will be doing. I believe they capture both God’s heart and priority.
Leaders of five organizations had initiated GACX in September 2011.