About – Generous Church

Imagine a movement of global generosity...

GenerousChurch sparks global generosity by empowering church and ministry networks worldwide. We’re driven by the belief that biblical generosity is about creating disciples, not just raising funds. Our mission is to inspire a movement of giving that transforms lives and spreads God’s love across the globe.

Our vision is to reignite the Acts 2 and 4 Church through radical Biblical generosity. Early believers shared everything, fostering unity and transforming lives. This spirit of giving and community spread the gospel and made disciples. We aim to revive this movement, empowering believers worldwide to live generously and impact their communities.

Our heart is to empower these leaders to thrive, serving and supporting them in their mission.

We collaborate with passionate leaders and networks across the globe to unite the Church in spreading generosity.

We believe every follower of Jesus is designed to live generously—no matter their location or economic status. By fostering local generosity, we aim to help communities fund their own ministries, breaking free from unhealthy dependence.

Multiplication > Addition

By leveraging the power of Scripture and modern stories along with our generosity content and experience, we have helped train thousands of Christian leaders in Over 110 countries.

We collaborate with global church networks to create customized generosity training, believing multiplication is key. Instead of just adding more, multiplication spreads generosity exponentially, empowering others to teach and inspire, creating a ripple effect that impacts entire communities. This approach has sparked a worldwide movement, unleashing thousands of generous disciples.

How we partner

Build great VISION among leaders in your network around Biblical generosity. This brings motivation and desire to grow the message.

Help leaders in your network EXPERIENCE transformational generosity. This builds greater understanding and confidence in those who train others.

Work with your network to DESIGN customized generosity trainings. This assures your training fits your context and culture.

Our Story

Since 2011, we have helped thousands of Christian leaders in the United States unleash generous disciples through generosity training, events, tools and coaching for the local church. We believe our ministry efforts helped many church leaders redefine generosity from fundraising to disciple-making as followers of Jesus.

In the summer of 2019, our team invested significant time in prayer, repentance and fasting. God showed us a new direction - to move from addition to multiplication. Later that year we made a trip to Egypt to facilitate our first global generosity training. We left Egypt with a clearer vision of what multiplication looks like and how future generosity trainings could be conducted.

In February 2020 we traveled to Southeast Asia to meet with 40 members of the LeaderSource team. We cast a vision for Biblical generosity globally to leaders from nearly 20 countries. Our objective was to determine if these skilled men and women believed the generosity message was needed around the globe.

The clear answer was yes!

We engaged with LeaderSource leaders to create and launch their own generosity training to spread through their network. The training we created with them looks and feels like LeaderSource training, it contains their models and is owned by LeaderSource.

This was a big discovery for us! We could help networks catalyze the development of generosity training by bringing generosity content to network leaders. The local network brings contextualization based on their experience. The result is a powerful generosity training created in a short period of time that is owned and implemented by the network.

Based on these learnings we have created the Generosity Design Lab, a 2-day process to catalyze the development of contextualized generosity training for church and ministry networks.

The training model first created in Dec 2019 has been used to train over 17,000 leaders in 75 countries.

The Team

Patrick Johnson

Founder + Visionary

Patrick has a passion to see Biblical generosity spread through global church and ministry networks. Over the last 15 years, he has partnered with both large and small networks to equip leaders to unleash generous disciples. Leveraging the power of Scripture and story, the products and experiences that he’s created have been used by over 2000 churches to transform the hearts and minds of Jesus-followers toward generosity as a way of living versus an act of giving. Patrick and his wife Jennifer live in Kansas City and have four grown children.

Troy Dixon

Chief Operations Officer

Troy is an entrepreneur and global leader. He is dedicated to developing out-of-the-box solutions for global ministry and organizational problems. He is passionate about unlocking the immense value that all of God’s children have to offer. His life goal is simply to walk with Jesus. Troy has experience in various leadership roles in the international ministry and for-profit sectors. He currently lives in the Bay Area, partnering with Antioch Community Church, Crazy Love, and Youth with a Mission to equip and disciple college students.

Cindy Cheeks

Global Relationship Manager

Cindy came to GenerousChurch with a background in client services, administration and marketing. In 2005 she began her non-profit work with a relief organization, where she eventually served as Executive Director. She has since worked with non-profit and government agencies, helping structure their operations for maximum impact. Cindy and her husband Keith live in Mississippi and have six grown children, including a daughter in law and son in law.

Daniel Díaz

Funding and Operations Coordinator

Daniel has experience working with nonprofits in short-term missions, administration, and marketing. He enjoys connecting and building relationships with friends, donors, and volunteers. In 2015, he felt called by the Lord to serve people living in poverty in Guatemala City’s garbage dump. Three years later, he expanded his impact to serve underprivileged children in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and other countries in Central America. In 2024, Daniel joined the GenerousChurch team to spread the message of generosity worldwide. He resides in Guatemala City with his lovely wife, Paula.

Jessica Ullrich

Director of Program

Jessica carries a personal mission to bear light, build bridges, and establish Kingdom order by developing people and processes that worship God and advance the Great Commission. This mission has led her to various experiences in cross-cultural ministry, the social work field, and currently the Biblical generosity space, where she has spent the majority of her career equipping global networks with Stations of Generosity. Jessica currently lives in Berkeley, California, where she is pursuing an MBA part-time.

Adel Azmi

Regional Director of MENA Region

Adel is the Founder and CEO of the NABLA, a ministry begun in 2017, with a mission of creating a culture of generosity for accountable Christ centered churches, ministries and Christian-Owned Business. The resulting goal is local funding for long term sustainability and kingdom impact. He has over 20 years of experience in business: tourism, import-export industry, and real estate and has traveled to 24 countries for business and ministry. Adel facilitates GenerousChurch initiatives in the Middle East/North Africa region. He lives with his wife Sylvana and son.

Catherine Muthey

Intercessor

Catherine has been part of GenerousChurch as Lead Intercessor since 2016, praying for the team and leaders daily. She knows that we can do nothing on our own and spends time in prayer and fasting for people to experience being near God and engaging in generosity. When she is not traveling for generosity, mentoring or prayer opportunities, Catherine touches the world through intercession from her home in Kansas.

Gabrielle Fortunato

Director of Outreach

Gabrielle is deeply committed to Jesus and fostering relationships with kingdom- minded individuals. She has experience in traditional missions, Business as Missions, and corporate roles before transitioning into the field of biblical generosity where God has continued to take her into different nations to release His word. She is passionate about Gabrielle currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal.