By Doug Lucas, Team Expansion President

Disciple-Making Movements (or DMM for short) are spreading the Gospel at an exponential rate. Using these movements, we can reach the remaining 3 billion unreached people around the world in our lifetime, but they aren’t just for overseas! You can start a Disciple-making movement in the local community. Although sometimes, the local movements turn global!

A Step-by-step Guide to start a disciple-making movement in the local community

Over the past 15 months, I’ve been lucky enough to facilitate seven Zume courses. Zume is a streamed form of training in disciple-making principles. It’s an excellent tool to start a disciple-making movement in the local community. Zume is offered in several languages and includes videos and a step-by-step process. Check it out at www.ZumeProject.com.

In one course during the summer of 2017, there were 5 of us in the group. Upon completing the nine-week course, one couple launched a new three-thirds group within one week after we finished. Their new group became a “simple church.” The other couple launched another Zume training group with yet another couple. Within two weeks, I was facilitating my next Zume training group of 11 people.

Our Zume group multiplied globally into 3 groups within two weeks of wrapping up.

The truth is, MOST of the Zume groups I’ve facilitated have resulted in a tripling (or more) factor. It’s the beginning stages of a disciple-making movement in the local community.

The current group I’m facilitating even includes a Muslim background believer from Yemen. He’s a refugee currently living on an island in the Pacific (we video-conference him into the group each week). We just finished the fourth session and, through God’s power, we’ve arranged for him to be baptized this coming Sunday!

Will you join me in praying for him? Let’s pray God would help him start a disciple-making movement in the local community, right there on the island.