Although making disciples is the clear mission of the Church, when asked, most churches say that making disciples who make disciples is still their biggest weakness.
We sense God is calling the church to return to its primary purpose, to make disciples who make disciples.
In order for us to do that we must make a one eighty turn with five essential shifts back to disciple-making in our life and leadership. Join 5,000+ leaders and practitioners to multiply your insights and impact.
Pete Greig is the increasingly bewildered founder of 24-7 Prayer – an international, interdenominational movement of prayer, mission and justice which has been praying night-and-day for more than twenty years and has reached more than half the nations on earth. He and his wife Sammy, a professional counsellor, serve as Senior Pastors of Emmaus Rd, a multi congregational church in the south of England. Pete co-hosts the Lectio 365 daily devotional and brings leadership to Waverley Abbey, a 1400 year old place of prayer just outside London. His latest award-winning book is How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People. Pete and Sammy split their time between a river boat on the River Wey, south of London, and an island retreat off the south coast of England where they host and mentor leaders.
Léonce B. Crump Jr. is an international speaker, former NFL athlete, and the co-founder and senior pastor of Renovation Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the author of Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are and co-author of The Resilience Factor: A Step-By-Step Guide to Catalyse an Unbreakable Team. Léonce has been published in varying print and digital publications, writing on everything from leadership to politics. He serves on several nonprofit boards that promote human flourishing. He regularly speaks nationally and globally at conferences and blogs on topics ranging from family dynamics to financial wisdom at LeonceCrump.com. A champion for the church’s participation in focused and intentional cultural renewal, Léonce is a leading voice of a generation committed to operating as God’s redemptive agents on the earth. Léonce and his wife, Breanna, reside in Atlanta with their three daughters and son.
As the Executive Director of Saturate and visionary leader of the Soma Family of Churches, Jeff Vanderstelt gets to spend his days doing what he loves — mentoring leaders and equipping the Church in the gospel and missional living. Additionally, Jeff is on the leadership team of Saturate the Sound, a local church collective focused on gospel saturation in the Puget Sound. Jeff has authored Saturate, Gospel Fluency, and Making Space.
Danielle lets Love lead her to inspire, challenge, provoke and disrupt the present, and to live the future now. Having lived in different cultures and contexts around the world she celebrates diversity and deeply longs for wrong things to be made right. Danielle practices following Jesus daily. This pursuit has led to exciting entrepreneurial exploits (like co-founding multiple charities and non-profits) and a whole host of failures (that we don’t as often talk about). All of this has convinced her of the deep need we all have for hope, faith, and love. Her deepest longing is to demonstrate what living that boundless life looks like.
Danielle has written six books (the latest is The Other Side of Hope), has a podcast called The Right Side Up, and speaks to people at events all over the world. Danielle leads Boundless Communications Inc., which launches creative exploits like Women Speakers Collective (liberating voices of women around the globe), IMBY (a tiny home movement IN MY BACKYARD), Brave Global (preventing human trafficking), Infinitum (a way of living deeply), and Hagar's Voice (support and advocacy for survivors of abuse). Her home is in Toronto, Canada with her three sons and husband Steve. Danielle loves getting outside, doing new things, physical adventures, and she can't seem to turn down a free lunch.
Jay Pathak is the National Director of Vineyard USA. He also serves as the Lead Pastor of the Mile High Vineyard, a family of neighborhood churches in Denver, that he and his wife Danielle, planted in 2001.
Jay co-wrote the book, The Art of Neighboring, with Dave Runyon. His passion for sharing his faith with the people around him is at the center of his calling.
Jay is a humble, empowering leader who is passionate about raising up leaders around him. His strengths, in particular, lie in strategically placing people on teams where they thrive. Additionally, he regularly thinks of ministry in context of culture and developing relationships and partnerships in the city, government, and across denominational lines.
Jay has led in various contexts throughout the Vineyard starting as an intern for Rich Nathan at the Columbus Vineyard in his early ministry days, and stretching into various positions of translocal leadership including serving on the Vineyard USA Executive Team for many years. He is a sought-after speaker and coach, while keeping strong ties to the local community.
Dave Ferguson is the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, a multi-expression missional community that is passionate about “helping people find their way back to God.” Community has grown from a few college friends to reaching thousands of people in Chicagoland and around the world. Dave also provides visionary leadership for the international church-planting movement NewThing and is the President of Exponential. He is an award-winning author of books that include The Big Idea, Exponential, On The Verge, Finding Your Way Back To God, Starting Over, Hero Maker and most recently B.L.E.S.S. 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World. Dave and his best friend Sue have three terrific adult kids - Amy, Josh and Caleb.
Will Chung and his wife Andrea are the founding and lead pastors of Beloved Church in Buena Park, California. They also have three beautiful children, Karis, Kairos and Zoey. The deepest desire of Will’s heart is to live in ever increasing union with God and to help others to do the same through wholistic discipleship. For more information about Will and Andrea you can visit: www.thebelovedchurch.com.
Noemi Chavez pastors Revive Church, a multisite church in Long Beach, CA and the greater Los Angeles area. She is a speaker and cofounder of Brave Global, an organization which focuses on reaching out to girls that are on probation and in the foster care system. Noemi also serves as chair of the board for Exponential Español, as a board member for Exponential U.S., and with Biola Church Relations Advisory Board. She is committed to raising leaders and bridging generations to serve the future of the Church and their communities.
Jossy is the Founder & President of Empart, a global ministry that exists to ignite holistic community transformation. Giving leadership to a team of over 13,000 and offices in 9 countries, Jossy travels around the world inspiring and challenging leaders to capture a larger God-size vision and not to waste gifts and opportunities. Jossy is married to Jenni, are blessed with 4 children, and lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Sarah is the CEO of the Church Revitalisation Trust, which supports the planting of churches across the UK. Prior to the Church Revitalisation Trust, Sarah was HTB Group Chief of Staff, Director of Operations and Executive Pastor at St Paul’s Hammersmith and was Founding Director of a Property and Design Company working in the UK and Europe. Sarah and her husband Tom lead a campus at HTB Church and are founders of Love Your Neighbour national campaign. Sarah is an ordained minister in the Church of England.
Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean clergyman who founded #ThisFlag Citizen’s Movement to challenge corruption, injustice and poverty in Zimbabwe. The movement’s main objective is to empower citizens to hold government to account. The movement organized multiple successful non-violent protests in response to unjust government policy. For his work, Mawarire was imprisoned and tortured in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and charged with treason facing 80 years in prison. Evan has addressed audiences at The Atlantic Council, Yale, Harvard, the Oxford Union (UK), the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Geneva Summit for Human Rights & Democracy. Foreign Policy magazine named him among 100 global thinkers of 2016. The Daily Maverick Newspaper of South Africa named him 2016 African person of the year. Evan Mawarire was a nominee of the prestigious 2018 Swedish government’s Per Anger Prize for democracy actors. He is a former fellow of Stanford University’s Centre for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law, Yale University’s World Fellows and a Regan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Mawarire is currently a visiting fellow at both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the advisory board of Yale International Leadership Centre and is currently the Director of Education at Renew Democracy Initiative in Washington DC.
Yaroslav has a doctorate in systematic theology and now serves at the president of Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine.
He also serves as the president of WeCare Ukraine which unites and assists the three pillars of every community–churches, civic agencies,and local government–to help alleviate the physical deprivation and emotional pain of Ukrainians resulting from the war.
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