Exponential is a growing community of leaders committed to accelerating the multiplication of healthy, reproducing faith communities. We equip movement makers with actionable principles, ideas, and solutions. We are passionate about accelerating multiplication through movement makers!
Jesus. Leaders. Acceleration. Movements. Multiplication.
VISION
To see an expanding number of movements of healthy, reproducing faith communities.
CORE ESSENCE
Distributing thought leadership.
MISSION
Equipping movement makers with actionable principles, ideas, and solutions for the accelerated multiplication of healthy, reproducing faith communities.
NAME
Exponential means “accelerating multiplication.” That is the core of what we seek to do (our mission).
Our Team
Dave Ferguson
Dave is co-founder of Community Christian Church, New Thing and Exponential. Dave oversees the creative process and programming for Exponential Conferences. His enthusiasm for “yes” is contagious.
DAVE
FERGUSON
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Dave is co-founder of Community Christian Church, New Thing and Exponential. Dave oversees the creative process and programming for Exponential Conferences. His enthusiasm for “yes” is contagious.
• Futuristic
• Activator
• Command
• Positivity
• Arranger
Jason Stewart
Jason catalyzes movement for Exponential by bridging vision to strategy to implementation. He works to align and leverage the gifts and passions of the Exponential team.
JASON
STEWART
COO
Jason catalyzes movement for Exponential by bridging vision to strategy to implementation. He works to align and leverage the gifts and passions of the Exponential team.
• Futuristic
• Belief
• Strategic
• Responsibility
• Positivity
Terri Saliba
Terri is the Operations Manager for Exponential and keeps all the moving parts moving. She is the perfect mother hen but is really our goose laying the golden eggs.
TERRI
SALIBA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Terri is the Operations Manager for Exponential and keeps all the moving parts moving. She is the perfect mother hen but is really our goose laying the golden eggs.
• Woo
• Communication
• Relator
• Belief
• Positivity
Bill Couchenour
Bill primarily serves network and denominational leaders. He also provides strategic and operational oversight of Exponential’s R&D and expanding educational opportunities.
BILL
COUCHENOUR
DEPLOYMENT DIRECTOR
Bill primarily serves network and denominational leaders. He also provides strategic and operational oversight of Exponential’s R&D and expanding educational opportunities.
• Futuristic
• Learner
• Individualization
• Responsibility
• Connectedness
AARON
BARNETT
NEXTGEN CATALYST
As the NextGen Catalyst, Aaron leads the vision and development of Exponential’s NextGen initiatives. He is the Director of NXTGEN2Day and the galvanizer of Leadership Network’s GenerationNext. His desire is to reimagine what the local church could be and can do in his lifetime.
• Strategic
• Futuristic
• Learner
• Significance
• Achiever
MARYBETH
KING
BOOKKEEPING AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
Marybeth is able to juggle her bookkeeping responsibilities with being Exponential’s incredible customer service specialist. Her responsibility gene helps to make sure that everyone feels the Exponential love!
• Responsibility
• Harmony
• Developer
• Connectedness
• Arranger
SABIR
ROBINSON
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Driven by a passion to create and serve, Sabir is the knight behind the cowl, championing the voice of Exponential through pixel-precise visual communication.
• Strategic
• Learner
• Relator
• Positivity
• Individualization
Pat Masek
Pat Masek serves as the main stage speaker care for Exponential. She also serves as the Executive Assistant to Dave Ferguson and a Global Catalyst for NewThing.
PAT
MASEK
SPEAKER CARE
Pat serves as the main stage speaker care for Exponential. She also serves as the Executive Assistant to Dave Ferguson and a Global Catalyst for NewThing.
• Woo
• Activator
• Futuristic
• Arranger
• Communication
Don Smith
Don leads our main stage creative programming, including developing the conference video elements, and works with bands, speakers and other main stage talent.
DON
SMITH
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Don leads our main stage creative programming, including developing the conference video elements, and works with bands, speakers and other main stage talent.
• Activator
• Woo
• Responsibility
• Restorative
• Communication
Ralph Moore
Ralph Moore is the Founding Pastor of the Hope Chapel movement. Beginning with just 12 people and a frightened young pastor, the Hope Chapel “movement” now numbers over 2,300 churches, worldwide (and counting). He helps catalyze church multiplication movements.
RALPH
MOORE
CHURCH MULTIPLICATION CATALYST
Ralph is the Founding Pastor of the Hope Chapel movement. Beginning with just 12 people and a frightened young pastor, the Hope Chapel “movement” now numbers over 2,300 churches, worldwide (and counting). He helps catalyze church multiplication movements.
• Context
• Activator
• Maximizer
• Learner
• Arranger
Larry Walkemeyer
Larry (with his wife, Deb) leads Light & Life Christian Fellowship, a large, urban, multiethnic church in Long Beach, CA that has planted many churches nationally and internationally. As an author and speaker Larry works to advance the multiplication mission of the church.
LARRY
WALKEMEYER
EQUIPPING AND SPIRITUAL ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR
Larry serves as Strategic Catalyst for Multiplication for Free Methodist USA to encourage the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches nationally and is also Global Pastor for Light & Life Church that he and his wife Deb have led for the past thirty years. As an author and speaker Larry works to advance the multiplication mission of the church.
• Maximizer
• Activator
• Achiever
• Futuristic
• Positivity
Matt Wish
Matt is equal parts creative and strategist. Which is a fancy way of saying he can dream it and build it. This skillset comes in handy while leading the marketing and advertising efforts for Exponential. It’s also great for building LEGO masterpieces with his son, Jack.
MATT
WISH
MARKETING
Matt is equal parts creative and strategist. Which is a fancy way of saying he can dream it and build it. This skillset comes in handy when support the marketing and advertising efforts for Exponential. It’s also great for building LEGO masterpieces with his son, Jack.
• Input
• Connectedness
• Communication
• Empathy
• Achiever
Seeing the paradigm for success shift from addition to multiplication, and the percentage of U.S. churches that ever reproduce increase to greater than 10% will require increasing diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, experience, approaches, models and contexts. It will also require equipping a next generation of leaders to shape the future of the church and to lead well amidst an increasingly diverse, cynically-divided, culture that is increasingly hostile toward Jesus and to his followers.
With an historically aging, white, male, suburban bias, we are committed to expanding our narrative and our effectiveness in reaching into all corners of society. The intended diverse makeup of the Exponential Associates is not simply a statement of desire, it’s a commitment to reflect and value the leaders we seek to serve in the coming years.
DNA
Serving
We’re the catapult not the carrier. Our fruit grows on others’ trees. We seek to come alongside and help accelerate what God is already doing through others. We are not in competition with any church planting organizations but have a posture of you can do it, how can we help?
Diversity
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity, with a precious few essentials. Diversity of models and approaches. We seek to platform the aggregation of what God is up to rather than one model or approach.
Pursuing Next
Yesterday faithfully becomes today. We seek to look out the window and see things before others do. We are future biased and continually look for what God seems to be up to around us. Most productive work happens in the trenches today. We seek to help leaders be more effective and productive today by helping them see around the next corner yesterday.
Frugality and Stewardship
We are faithful with little and trusted with much. We seek to remain small and decentralized in our overhead with innovative funding models (e.g. Business for Mission) that are not donor reliant.
Partnerships and Collaboration
We limit doing what others can do better. We seek to work synergistically with others to accomplish more together than the sum of the individual parts.
Leveraging Leverage
Go big or go home. We seek to multiply one into one hundred in all that we do (as a way of modeling and of stewardship).
Islands of Health and Strength
Where is God at work and how do we join him?
We seek to find and come alongside strong leaders, surrendered to God, to help accelerate what God is doing through them.
From Clarity to Action
Ideas without fruit are simply academic. We seek to help people get clarity on what’s next for them including how to embrace and implement ideas, principles and strategies and then to act.
BELIEFS
God
God, the Creator of the world, is all powerful and all knowing. God’s ways are perfect and He despises sin.
Man
Man is separated from God due to sin. Without redemption from sin, man’s end is death. People matter to God. His love for man is so deep that God initiated action to cover man’s sin and to make a way for man to be reconciled to Him
Jesus
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Head of the church, is the only way to God and to eternal life. Jesus died for our sins, and rose from the dead so that man could be redeemed from his sinful nature and restored to a right relationship with God.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness of sins and eternal life are available to all who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Those accepting Jesus Christ should repent of sin, confess their faith, and be baptized into Him.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit lives within and empowers every Christian.
Bible
The Bible is the inspired word of God, and our standard for living according to God’s ways.
Church
The Church is the body of Christ on earth, empowered by the Holy Spirit to evangelize the lost and to edify the believer.
FAQs
Does Exponential plant churches?
No. Exponential seeks to come alongside and serve church planters and the organizations they are affiliated with. We seek to impact church planting by accelerating the multiplication of leading organizations who are planting churches.
Does Exponential provide financial grants to church planters?
We do not provide financial grants, however, we do help resource other church planting organizations who do provide grants.
Who owns Exponential?
Exponential is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that serves the broad, evangelical church planting community. The governing Board of Exponential consists of experienced leaders from church planting networks.
Is Exponential affiliated with a specific network or denomination?
The roots of Exponential trace to the Christian Churches. Today, Exponential serves any Evangelical ministry. We currently serve over 50 different networks and denominations.
Who are some of the ministries Exponential serves?
Examples include: Association of Related Churches, New Thing, Acts 29 Network, Stadia, Launch Network, Vision 360, Orchard Group, Missio, Forge, Assemblies of God, Evangelical Free Church of America, Converge Worldwide (Baptist General Conference), Southern Baptists, etc.
How does Exponential fund its operations?
We essentially function as a Business for Mission. This means we are not reliant on donor dollars or fundraising for operations. The fees charged for the operations we sponsor cover our operations. We maintain a very lean and frugal overhead. Where appropriate to pilot new initiatives and / or strategically grow existing initiatives, we do accept donor investments.
