Meeting with Jay Koopman

Jay is a great friend of mine from the G12 days. He came and stayed over our house years four years ago because he was sent by his pastor to "check out" G12 and see if was what their church needed. Jay was the youth pastor of a church in Watts that grew to have three or four hundred radical, on fire youth. Jay is one of the top three most radical Christians I've ever personally met in my life. Being around him just causes my heart to burn for God and for souls.
He had left G12 a couple years ago and gone to New York to work with Bill Wilson and Pastor Randy Goudeau. He helped establish a church with Randy Goudeau right in the heart of Manhattan. He started and led a school of evangelism for over a year where youth groups would come to Manhattan from all over America and be trained for one or two weeks in radical street evangelism.
I knew about all of the above because I had heard about it through the grapevine, but I hadn't talked to Jay in over two years. But I always had a burning desire to team up with him and Pastor Randy Goudeau.
When I moved to California out of nowhere Jay finds me on Myspace and requests to be my friend. I check out his profile and see a bunch of pictures of him in California. I couldn't believe it...Jay was back in L.A.! Could it be? So I messaged him several times. He responded once and said he would call me, but he never did. For two months I tried to contact him, but to no avail. Finally, I get a message from him saying "Sorry, I never contacted you. I've been in Malaysia all this time." And he gave me his phone number in the message.

So I called him and at last I talked to him, but we never met up until November 4th.
When we met up he told Brooke and I all about why he left G12 and what he did afterwards with Bill Wilson and Randy Goudeau. Then he told us all about what he is currently doing.

Jay is currently under the ministry of Dr. Chan. I've never heard of Dr. Chan, but Jay told us that he is one of the biggest Asian church leaders in the world. He has 300 Bible colleges all across the world and he has a ministry called Agape Ministries that empowers people to start new ministries. Jay told us that Dr. Chan's main anointing is to find people who are nobody's, but have a vision and a heart for God and help establish their vision by funding, discipleship, and spiritual covering. Also, Dr. Chan is close friends with Brother Yun, Che Ahn, and many other great leaders.

Anyways, so Jay is now the Youth Pastor of all the 300 Bible colleges. He travels around the world to these Bible colleges and teaches them youth ministry. He is currently getting key youth leaders from all over Asia and discipling them to go back to their youth groups and radically lead their youth groups for God.

Jay had already read all of my blogs from my mission trip and told us about how inspiring they were to him. He said that he looked up to me and was inspired by me, but I told him that I looked way more up to him and was inspired by him.

Brooke and I told him all about Global Gospel Movement and he was absolutely ecstatic. He wanted to help us in every way he can. He wants us to personally meet with Dr. Chan and tell him about our vision. He said that it is very possible that Dr. Chan would help teach us, disciple us, spiritually cover us, and fund our vision so that it could take off. He was blown away by the fact that God had told us to go to Harvest Rock Church because Dr. Chan and Che Ahn are great friends and they wouldn't have a problem at all with Brooke and I being under both of their coverings at the same time.

We talked on and on for three or four hours. I asked Jay if he could disciple me and help me start this vision and he said the he would love to.

I have no idea what doors God is going to open through all of this, but I know deep, deep in mu spirit that what it is, it's really really big.