A3 Ministry Highlights from 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, I’ve found myself returning again and again to one word: MULTIPLICATION.
Not simply growth. Not just more activity or bigger numbers. But the quiet, powerful kind of multiplication that only God can orchestrate: leaders, movements, courage, calling, and influence spreading across the world.
This year marked one of the most significant seasons in A3’s history. What began more than four decades ago with a simple, faithful vision to invest in pastoral leaders in Japan has now become a multi-continental movement of Christ-like leaders serving across the church, the marketplace, and the public square.
And yet, even as God has carried us into new regions and new spheres, He has allowed us to do so without leaving our roots behind.
A3 has become a truly global movement without losing its original vision—to come alongside leaders and help them to achieve their vision.
In 2025, A3 crossed a historic threshold. The mission that started in 1967 focused on one country is now structured as a global movement of movements, focused on the world.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR A3
New work has taken root across Armenia, Middle Asia, the Southern Caucasus, Ecuador and Latin America, with Africa emerging as a serious next frontier. A3 is also beginning to develop leaders in new sectors and workplaces.
SPIRITUAL RENEWAL FOR JAPAN
At the same time, through A3 and go2japan in partnership with SIM, we continue to stand with pastors, missionaries, and churches in Japan, the soil where this ministry first took root. We are still sending workers; still discipling leaders; still believing for spiritual renewal in one of the most challenging mission fields in the world.
I am deeply grateful that God has allowed us to carry a rare posture, one of global expansion with long-term faithfulness.
LAUNCHING IN LATIN AMERICA
One of the great joys of 2025 was witnessing the birth of A3 in Latin America, beginning in Quito, Ecuador.
For the first time in our history, pastors and marketplace leaders were trained together from the very start. Leaders from several Latin nations gathered. Stories of calling, repentance, courage, and vision emerged almost immediately.
Latin America is no longer a future dream listed on a strategic plan. It is now a living, multiplying movement.
A3.BUSINESS DEVELOPING WORKPLACE LEADERS
A3.business also crossed an important threshold this year. What once began as an experiment is now a fully integrated second engine of our mission.
In Asia, South Asia, and now Latin America, business leaders and pastors are being formed side by side in character, in strategy, and in mission. Alumni are returning to their nations not merely as entrepreneurs, executives, or professionals, but as stewards of influence for God’s kingdom.
We are watching leaders emerge who carry the gospel into boardrooms, factories, classrooms, and city systems, quietly, faithfully, and powerfully.
NEXT GEN: EMERGING KINGDOM LEADERS
This year also marked a holy moment of generational handoff.
Long-serving leaders completed their assignments with dignity and joy. New global leadership structures came fully into operation. Responsibilities shifted without disruption or division.
Transitions like this are never automatic. They are formed through humility, prayer, and trust. I see in this moment not only good governance, but the very fruit of Christ-like leadership that A3 exists to form.
MOMENTUM FOR WOMEN IN MINISTRY & EMERGING LEADERS
One of the most encouraging signs of 2025 has been the intentional centering of women and emerging leaders.
Women are now serving as faculty, directors, and movement catalysts across several nations. Younger leaders are being mentored, released, and trusted with real responsibility. This is not a future aspiration. It is now a lived reality.
The next generation is not waiting at the door. They are already inside the room.
In ways I could not have imagined years ago, God also expanded A3’s influence far beyond our own network in 2025.
INCREASED FOCUS ON DISCIPLEMAKING
Through involvement with the Lausanne Movement, the World Evangelical Alliance ecosystem, and global mission scholarship and publications, A3 has been able to contribute to worldwide conversations on disciplemaking as the central leadership challenge of our time, Christlike character as the foundation for sustainable leadership, polycentric mission leadership across cultures and generations, and the new edges of mission in cities, migration, digital space, youth culture, and the marketplace.
It humbles me deeply to say this, but it is true. God is allowing A3 to help shape not only leaders, but the very architecture of global mission for the next generation.
GRATEFULNESS FOR YOU & THE LORD
None of this would be possible without the extraordinary faithfulness of our donors and partners.
In 2025, God provided strengthened unrestricted resources, new transformational partners, wise stewardship of long-held assets, and the freedom to look toward 2030 with confidence rather than fear.
You have not just helped us survive. You have helped us step forward boldly.
As I look back on this year, I see a beautiful tension that only God could sustain. Global expansion and local faithfulness. Church and marketplace together. Formation and strategy held in harmony. New frontiers and long-term commitments side by side.
This is the calling of A3 in this season. And it is one we carry with deep humility.
If you are a donor, prayer partner, faculty member, alumnus, or friend of A3, I want you to hear this clearly:
You are not funding programs.
You are helping build a global movement of Christ-like leaders.
Leaders who are shaping churches, businesses, cities, and nations. Leaders who carry both conviction and compassion. Leaders who are learning, slowly and imperfectly, to look more like Jesus.
As we step into 2026 and toward 2030, the harvest remains plentiful. And by God’s grace, the workers are multiplying.
Watch my video...
If the video player does not work, click here... https://vimeo.com/1147879665
With deep gratitude,
Rev. Joseph W. Handley, Jr., Ph.D.
CEO
@jwhandley
@jwhandley
@JosephWHandleyJr
@jwhandley
P.S. — If you want to give toward our $375,000 challenge grant, your gift may be multiplied. Your gift will not only get us closer to completing the challenge by December 31—more importantly, it will provide much-needed funding for leadership development programs across the globe. And to sustain A3’s programs, please do consider becoming an A3 Sustainer.
USE THE QR CODE OR CLICK "GIVE NOW" TO MULTIPLY YOUR GIFT...
2025 YEAR-END GIVING PROJECT
GIVE NOW | More about "A3 Sustainers"
