Have you ever felt the quiet tug that there must be more to following Jesus than attending church, listening well, and trying to be a good Christian?

You’re not alone.

Across the country, believers are waking up to the realization that Jesus didn’t just call us to believe – He called us to multiply our faith. To make disciples. And right now, pastors, churches, and everyday Christians are crying out for help. They’re asking questions like:

“How do I share the Gospel without feeling overwhelmed?”
“How do I lead my church into something deeper?”
“I want to make disciples … but where do I start?”

That hunger is exactly why Made to Multiply exists.

Made to Multiply is e3’s initiative to equip every church in North America with biblical, simple, and reproducible tools to confidently share their story and God’s story and make disciples.

“All too often in our churches today, we see that Kingdom expansion rests on the shoulders of only those who are paid as the staff of the church,” said Josh Spinks, e3’s VP of North American Initiatives. “But this isn’t what God called us to do. He’s called each and every one of us to participate in this to see that all nations are reached with the beauty of the Gospel.”

Over the last few years, and as the landscape of the modern church shifts, one thing has become increasingly clear, according to Ryan Spinks, Director of Made to Multiply: the people of the Church want to share their faith and teach others to share their faith, too. They just need a pathway. 

Pastors are asking for guidance in training their congregations, everyday believers are asking how to make disciples, and legacy churches – the long-established congregations across the country – are asking for partners who can help them mobilize their people.

“We have a huge opportunity in the States, especially with legacy churches,” Ryan  said. “Prevailing model churches and leaders are asking for a lot of help with training specifically, but that gives us an opportunity to have a deeper conversation – not just around evangelism, not just around discipleship, not even just around church planting, but mobilizing.”

“Without support, many churches have unintentionally outsourced evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development,” Ryan said. Made to Multiply aims to help churches reclaim this.

“Ultimately the goal is these churches is taking ownership of all parts of the [multiplication] strategy, and they’re owning it themselves,” Ryan said. 

A recent Made to Multiply event further highlighted the need for support among churches. The event brought together 12 churches of all stages and sizes. The range was wide – some with congregations of 20 people, others of 10,000 – and yet most came with the same question: How do we multiply?

To answer this question, the Made to Multiply team is building accessible, reproducible pathways:

• Hybrid workshops and regional events where pastors and everyday believers learn together how to share the Gospel, make disciples, and plant more churches.
• Pastor cohorts – 14-16 weeks of walking through Scripture and practicing side-by-side.
• Multi-church gatherings that create community, not competition.
• Trainings with simple tools that anyone of any background can use immediately.

This isn’t one-and-done training.

It’s an invitation into a lifetime of disciple-making.

“Our hope with Made to Multiply is helping churches,” Ryan said. “Helping build a community of churches that are practicing and pursuing a different ecclesiology than they’ve been given – that includes multiplication. We’re not trying to change the pathway for developing leaders and making disciples. We’re supporting leaders and churches that are wrestling through this. And so these events are going to provide some helpful steps and a good community around this.”

These developing initiatives aren’t singular training sessions – they’re springboards into ongoing partnership for the growing body of churches searching for an effective way to share the Gospel and make disciples.

 

Future Vision: A New Multiplication Model

Made to Multiply training is spreading from church to church across the country, empowering believers to share their faith and make disciples in their everyday lives.

“People all over are saying, ‘I follow Jesus, but I don’t know how to make disciples. I don’t know how to be a disciple,’” Ryan said. “It is going to be catalytic because then we can do this in our families and we can do this in our homes.”

This multiplication model looks like families discipling around kitchen tables, believers sharing the Gospel with friends and coworkers, pastors shepherding instead of managing, churches becoming more relational, personal, and mission-focused, and a nationwide community of congregations practicing and pursuing a biblical, multiplying ecclesiology.

 

When the Mission Comes Alive: The Firefighter Story

This kind of multiplication is evidenced in the life of Travis, a firefighter in Baton Rouge who is part of Ryan’s home church.

After hearing about a Made to Multiply training, he told Ryan, “If this is real, show me how to do it.”

So he started small – sharing the Gospel with a few men on his shift.

Those men all said they were Christians, but they realized they’d never been discipled and didn’t know how to disciple others.

So they started meeting together at the station. Opening the Word. Practicing simple tools. Asking questions.

That group grew from six firefighters to an entire unit, and then beyond:

• Another firefighting unit started to meet with them each week and now they identify as a church.
• One firefighter started another simple church in his home an hour away.
• Others began sharing the Gospel in their neighborhoods.

This is the heart of Made to Multiply:

Ordinary people realizing they can live extraordinary lives of disciple-making – right where they are.

 

Made to Multiply – Building a Movement

The future of Made to Multiply is relational, reproducible, biblical, and ultimately, nation-shaping. As more churches lean in, ask questions, and take ownership of the multiplication mission, the impact could extend far beyond individual congregations.

This is where you step into the story.

Before the year ends, you have an opportunity to accelerate this movement – to put training, support, and tools into the hands of churches across the country who are ready to step into their calling.

Your year-end gift will:

• Equip pastors who feel stuck and overwhelmed.
• Train believers – like Travis the firefighter – to make disciples in everyday spaces.
• Launch more regional Made to Multiply gatherings in 2026.
• Provide simple, biblical tools to churches that desperately want to multiply.
• Help us move toward the vision of one million believers trained across North America.

If you believe every follower of Jesus has a part to play…

If you long to see churches become multiplying communities again…

If you want to help ordinary believers step into an extraordinary calling…

Will you make a generous year-end gift to support the Made to Multiply movement?

Together, we can spark a multiplying, disciple-making movement across the nation – one believer, one church, one firefighter, one living room at a time.

This is how we are Made to Multiply.