The world doesn't need more information or bigger programs.
It needs transformed people.
We have an exciting opportunity in front of us in Kenya — in partnership with the Amplius Group, Avanti's first organizational partner.
Over decades, four respected networks in the country have built something remarkable: real trust, real reach, and years of investment in the people under their care. In different ways and through different conversations this year, leaders across these networks have named the same thing to us: they believe partnering with Avanti to bring our process into their communities would be catalytic.
We think they're right, and we think this is exactly what we exist to do — ground, form, and deploy a generation of young Kingdom leaders for transformation across every sector and sphere of society. Not leaders with a vague sense of where they're headed, but leaders grounded in purpose, ready to carry generational impact into their communities and nations.
WHY IT MATTERS
We're inviting you to partner with us in this pioneering initiative.
What we're asking you to help fund is focused and specific: six months to bring a founding cohort of twelve leaders — a core group from each network — through Life on Purpose, our core process for discovering identity, stewarding relationships, and pursuing the purpose someone was created for, and to train every one of them as a facilitator who can lead that same process for their own people.
Life on Purpose itself costs nothing already. The book, the workbook, and the whole framework are free to anyone who wants them. The part that costs something is the facilitated experience that actually walks a person through it well, and the training that turns a participant into someone who can lead others through it too. That's what this gift funds. Once a leader is trained, the door behind them stays wide open: they can bring this to their own church, their own family, their own friend circle, at no cost to the people they're leading, in way that’s more accessible and personally relevant in those spaces than ever before.
Each of these networks brings real enthusiasm and real readiness — but like most growing movements in the region, their ability to cover the cost of a program like this is limited. To steward this opportunity well, we're inviting partners to come alongside and help fund the launch phase so that each of the leaders is equipped to invest in and serve countless more in the years to come.
Meet the organizations that are ready to send their leaders to the Life On Purpose Catalyst Group
Fred Ndavi grew up in a small village in Kenya, where a full education went only to the handful of kids who scored high enough and had families who could pay for it. He happened to be one of them. He got all the way through, made it to Dallas Baptist University in the U.S., and spent the years after wrestling with a question that a lot of scholarship kids never say out loud: why him, and not the kids sitting next to him who wanted it just as badly.
In 2013 he turned that question into an organization. Inspire Spaces is run by Kenyans who grew up inside the same school system they're now working to change, which means the scholarships, the mentorship, the rebuilt classrooms, all of it comes from people who have actual skin in the game rather than an outside foundation parachuting in. 270 scholarships awarded so far, and counting. Every year, a group of their university students climbs Kilimanjaro together, leadership training and fundraiser rolled into one seven-day push to 19,340 feet.
Fred is our connection into this world, and a handful of his key leaders will be going through the Catalyst Group themselves, walking the same process he's spent over a decade building for others, then coming out the other side trained to facilitate it inside Inspire Spaces going forward. Along the way, they'll be building real relationships with leaders from the other organizations doing this alongside them, which is very much the point.
Inspire Spaces
Gabriel Achayo trained as a mechanical engineer, then became a certified leadership and life coach, and at some point decided that the more urgent shortage in Kenya wasn't talent. It was trusted people willing to walk alongside young leaders while they figured out who they actually wanted to become. He's led AYLF's Kenya chapter for years now as Country Coordinator, part of a movement that's spread from Kenya into more than 25 African countries since its founding in 2007, though it's never really described itself as an NGO so much as a movement of friends, gathered around a shared conviction that Africa's leadership culture needs formation as much as it needs opportunity.
In Kenya alone, AYLF reaches into more than 120 universities and has built an active network of roughly 2,000 young professionals, running mentorship circles and a flagship Student Leadership Development Program now on its tenth cohort. Their own estimate of the ripple effect is striking: something like half of all Kenyan university students touched indirectly, and tens of millions of Kenyans beyond that. All of it aimed at one goal, stated plainly on their own site: a transformed leadership culture in Africa.
Gabriel is our connection into this world, and a handful of AYLF's own key leaders will be going through the Catalyst Group themselves, then trained to carry the process forward inside AYLF's network, alongside the leaders from Inspire Spaces and Dove Fellowship doing the same thing in parallel.
DOVE Africa (Dove Fellowship)
AYLF (Africa Youth Leadership Forum) — Kenya
Ibrahim and Diane Omondi started with a single weekly fellowship meeting in their own home in Nairobi, back in 1988, several years into a ministry partnership they'd already been building together in Kenya. That fellowship multiplied into a church, then into church planters being sent out into new territory, and today DOVE Africa is a network of more than 300 churches across seven nations, still anchored in the same three pillars it started with: prayer, evangelism, and discipleship.
Doug and Charlene have known Ibrahim and Diane since their college days, which means this isn't a partnership we found through a strategy session or a cold introduction. It's a friendship that's been running in parallel with ours for decades, one where the same conviction driving Life on Purpose, that real transformation happens in small groups of people who actually know each other, was already the operating logic of DOVE Africa's churches long before either of us put words to it.
Beyond church planting, the Omondis lead DOVE Missions Africa, supporting Kenyan and Ugandan missionaries among unreached people groups, and direct Springs of Africa, a microfinance and education initiative aimed at the same kind of lasting community change Avanti is after.
Ibrahim and Diane are our connection into this world, and a handful of DOVE Africa's own key leaders will be going through the Catalyst Group themselves, then trained to carry the process forward inside their own network of churches, alongside the leaders from Inspire Spaces and AYLF doing the same thing in parallel.
PARTNERS, NOT CONSUMERS
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A gift of $1,200 funds one leader's complete six months: their own process, and their training to lead it for others. Give it as a single gift, or commit to $200 a month for six months, whatever fits your life best. No gift here is too small to matter. This isn't about hitting a specific number — it's a posture of investing in Kingdom outcomes that will ripple across lives, communities, and generations in ways that far exceed what we sow today. Any gift, in any amount, moves us closer to the full amount it will take to resource this group through the program.
If this works the way we believe it will, it doesn't stop there. This is the kind of thing that tips a boulder downhill: once it's moving, these twelve leaders could go on to lead it for as many groups as they have capacity for, in their own timing, and we're already imagining what it could look like to eventually gather everyone together in Kenya to celebrate what's taken root. None of that is what we're asking you to fund today. It's the horizon this six months opens up.
Money given as aid usually disappears the moment it's spent. This is different. It's an investment in people who will go on discipling their own communities, their own young people, and their own families for years, and likely for generations, after the gift itself is long spent. We believe that's worth funding, and we'd love for you to be part of it.
WHAT SUPPORTING THIS CATALYST GROUP MAKES POSSIBLE
SUPPORT THE CATALYST GROUP
Ready to invest in these leaders?
If this is a vision you want to help bring to life, we'd be honored to have you as part of it.
A gift of $1,200 funds one leader's complete six months in the program, and $200 a month gets you there too — but those are just reference points. The next step is a quick form where you can customize the amount and rhythm that works for you, and we'll take it from there.
Avanti Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Contributions are tax-deductible.
FAQs
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Yes. The Avanti Collective is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which means your partnership contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. You'll receive a receipt for your records, and we'll provide any documentation you need at tax time.
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Absolutely — anytime, no questions asked, no friction. Life changes, and we'd rather you give what you can sustain than feel locked into something that stops working for your situation. If you want to increase your amount, scale back, or pause entirely, just let us know and we'll take care of it.
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Four times a year we gather Vision Partners for a live conversation with Avanti leadership — typically around an hour, held virtually so anyone can join regardless of location. These aren't polished presentations. They're honest, behind-the-scenes updates on where things stand, what we're learning, what's working, and what's next. Partners are encouraged to ask questions and share what's on their mind. Think of it less like a webinar and more like a kitchen table conversation with the people building this.
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We'd love that. The three suggested amounts are just starting points — many partners give more, and some prefer a one-time contribution over a monthly commitment. Use the "Customize Your Partnership" button below the pricing cards to tell us what you have in mind, and we'll make it work.
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You'll receive a welcome message from us within 24 hours with everything you need to know — confirmation of your partnership, details on how to join the next quarterly call, and a direct line to reach us if you have questions. You won't be dropped into an automated sequence and forgotten. Someone on our team will be in touch personally.
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No. Month-to-month means month-to-month. We hope you'll stay because the work keeps earning it — not because you feel obligated to. That said, the partners who tend to feel most connected to what we're building are the ones who give it a few months to unfold before deciding if it's right for them. The quarterly calls in particular take on a different meaning once you've seen the work develop across a couple of cycles.
