Partner of Hope: How Church of the Highlands Is Mobilizing the Next Generation for Global Impact

Today’s students are digital natives. They understand instinctively that their peers around the world spend hours each day online. They also understand that in many places, especially closed or restricted nations, digital spaces may be the safest or only doorway to encounter the gospel. By sowing into digital missions, these students are choosing to meet people where they already are.

For students like Harper, that realization became deeply personal.

“During Motion, my eyes were opened to the reality that not everyone has the same access to Scripture that I do,” she shared. “Because God’s Word has meant so much to me personally, I wanted to give to OneHope so that as many people as possible can have that same opportunity.”

Her generosity came with a vision for impact. “My hope is that my gift helps Scripture be translated into many different languages so more people around the world can easily access the Bible the way I can,” Harper said. “Since Motion, I’ve been living more intentionally for Christ, with a greater understanding of the Great Commission and a stronger desire to play my part.”

That desire to act did not stop at giving.

“I’ve also realized how powerful digital ministry can be, especially in places where it isn’t safe to send people in person,” she added. “Since Motion, I’ve been inspired to have more conversations about Jesus and to be more intentional with every opportunity I’m given to reach people who are far from God.”

Church of the Highlands is more than a monetary partner. Over the years, they’ve collaborated closely with OneHope through multiple layers of partnership, all rooted in a shared vision: to reach and disciple the next generation with God’s Word.

• Feed: Highlands helped shape Feed, OneHope’s Gen Z-focused youth ministry resource, which is equipping church leaders across the U.S. and globally in discipling their students. Currently, there are over 15.8 thousand Feed users as of this year!
• Kids Bible Experience: Through collaborative content development with OneHope and YouVersion, Highlands played a key role in launching the Kids Bible Experience, a daily devotional experience inside the YouVersion Bible App for kids ages 7–11. In the past 5 years, the Kids Bible Experience has reached more than 15 million tweens in the United States and around the globe. 
• GrowLeader Conference: Highlands has used its Grow Network platform to introduce thousands of other churches to OneHope’s mission and tools for generational discipleship.
• Global Mobilization: Motion Conference continues to be a live example of what happens when the Church empowers young people to live generously, missionally, and courageously.

The story unfolding through this partnership reflects a broader shift: the narrative around Gen Z is changing. Once labeled distracted or disconnected, students like those at Motion Conference are demonstrating what it looks like to be spiritually awake, radically generous, and globally aware. Their willingness to fund Scripture engagement in hard places is driven by conviction and a desire to take their place in God’s story.

The generosity sparked at Motion Conference is already helping fuel OneHope’s work in one of the world’s most spiritually curious yet hard-to-reach regions. Through patient, culturally sensitive digital engagement and trained online missionaries, young people will have the opportunity to hear, explore, and respond to the message of Jesus.

This is what partnership looks like when a local church invests deeply in global impact and when students are not just included in the mission, but empowered to lead it.

As OneHope reflects on this year, Church of the Highlands stands as a Partner of Hope, reminding us that when the next generation is trusted with the mission, God multiplies the impact.

Share this story to celebrate what God is doing through partnerships like Church of the Highlands and to inspire others to raise up a generation of givers, leaders, and world-changers for the gospel.