Bible Engagement Project — Expanding Reach, New Tools
BEP, the Assemblies of God age-aligned digital curriculum that has been made available to everyone for free, has seen exponential growth since August 2023.
According to Jay Mooney, chief Ministries and Resources officer for the AG national office, the number of people being discipled on a weekly basis with BEP increased from 20,000 in 2023 to more than 700,000 today, with the number of churches using BEP increasing from about 700 to nearly 29,000.
“Eleven thousand AG churches now using BEP at some level — that’s 87% of our Fellowship,” Mooney said. “BEP is impacting our nation from coast to coast!”
What’s more, BEP has been translated into Spanish and that impact goes well beyond the United States, Mooney shared, making disciples across Latin America in churches and even in schools.
“BEP is not just in North America, South America, and Central America,” Mooney said, “it’s creeped into Asia, Africa, Europe, all forms of Oceania . . . people from 176 countries have engaged the Bible using this curriculum!”
Assistant General Superintendent Rick DuBose then shared a brief account of how BEP had been well received before it became a free curriculum, along with the story of how God guided leadership to make the curriculum available for free.
“The Church doesn’t always understand how valuable discipleship is,” DuBose said, “but the devil understands the power of discipleship and he lies, tricks, and fights for the opportunities to deceive our school children . . . constantly pouring demonic lies into children until he makes the absurd looks normal.”
DuBose said that BEP is a method to fulfill the command of making disciples, and it’s designed to begin with our Jerusalem, the home and neighborhood, first, empowering the family and the church, and then reaching beyond.
“We can raise an army greater than the enemy has raised,” DuBose said. “Within one generation we can change this nation, within one generation we can change the world, but we have to be as focused on discipleship as well as evangelism.”
DuBose spoke about how that giving BEP away for free meant it needed the partnership of ministries, churches, and individuals to continue to grow and develop to reach and disciple millions more.
“Our vision is to see BEP translated into the 10 major languages of the world by 2033,” DuBose announced, noting that in consulting with AG World Missions, French would be the next language, a field of multiplied millions in France and Africa alone. “I believe god is calling the Church to revival of biblical discipleship . . . and we want to empower the General Councils of every nation of the world.”
Mooney then announced that BEP year-four curriculum, Lead, will be available by January 2026, complementing and capping the first three years — Listen, Learn, and Live.
“Were dreaming forward, not just new languages and more curriculum, but how to make this more powerful and valuable for you and your church,” Mooney said. Then directing attention to a QR code on the video screen, he added, “We are working on taking BEP to another level for you as church leaders — we call it BEP Pro and we’re asking for you to join our study group for BEP Pro.”
Echoing the DeBose and the desire of the AG founders, Mooney stated, “Discipleship must go hand-in-hand with evangelism if we are going to become the greatest evangelism movement in the history of the world.”
