Turn your vision for disciplemaking into a practical reality by joining us in Launceston for the 2024 Disciplemaking Churches Conference.
Explore simple frameworks based on principles from the life of Jesus that you can use in your context. Discover how these frameworks are being implemented at Door of Hope Christian Church. Cultivate new connections with leaders from across the Body of Christ, be inspired, and share your experience with peers.
Purpose of Multiply
Pastors and ministry leaders didn’t go into ministry to manage programmes or preside over business and pastoral demands. Yet most find themselves feeling they are somehow running a merry-go-round, a very good one, that is far from disciplemaking, deep transformation and multiplying the church. Multiply is a gathering of pastors and leaders who are committed to making the shift from just doing better and busier ministry to growing a movement of disciplemaking with Kingdom impact.
The purpose of Multiply is to promote disciplemaking movements that connect people to Jesus, train them for fruitful personal ministry, and send them to help fulfil the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20). Hosted by Door of Hope Christian Church in Launceston, this two day event will explore core frameworks drawn from the life of Jesus that leaders can use to create an environment for disciplemaking in their sphere of influence.
Who is Multiply for?
If you are a denominational leader, pastor, lay leader, or involved in disciplemaking, Multiply is for you! The content will be designed for leaders, for people who are seeking to shape their ministry into a disciplemaking movement. Multiply will be ideal for leadership teams to work on their disciplemaking pathway together.
Why attend Multiply?
What will happen at Multiply?
We will take disciplemaking frameworks beyond theory and explore how they have been applied in the Door of Hope community. You will have the opportunity to interact with local leaders and see firsthand how these disciplemaking principles modelled by Jesus are used in practice. There will be time in the schedule to think through your own ministry context and begin working on your own disciplemaking pathway. There will be breakout options for leaders involved in leadership at a spiritual oversight or operational level, and options for those who have a generational focus (kids, families, youth, young adults).
What will I get out of Multiply?
Our prayer is that Multiply will inspire you to pursue disciplemaking in your ministry, provide you with some practical tools, and that you will leave with practical next steps. Multiply will be a wonderful opportunity to be motivated by others who are seeking to connect people to Jesus and equip them to be disciplemakers.
OPTIONAL DINNER
Tim understands that the biggest threat facing the Church in Australia doesn’t come from external forces. Instead it comes because we have not grasped the mandate to multiply disciples and churches. As National Leader of the non denominational multiplication ministry Exponential Australia, Tim is committed to providing thought leadership and practice that will stimulate multiplication. Tim is also National Leader of A2A, the Acts 2 Alliance and has served in various leadership roles in a South Asian Church multiplication movement that has seen 47,000 churches planted amongst unreached people groups over this time. With his wife Sharon, Tim planted what is now Tailrace Community Church, passing over senior leadership recently to his son Jonathon after 30 years ago as Senior Leader. Tim is married to Sharon, living in Launceston Tasmania with their three married adult children and two (soon to be three) grandchildren.
Andy developed, and launched The Emerging Leaders Program with a desire to equip and resource the local church to develop the disciple-making leaders in their context for today and the future. His heart is to see leaders of all generations, equipped, trained and launched as disciple-making movement leaders into all networks and communities across the country. He has been an active trainer in SHIFTm2M for almost 10 years, training over 60 participants throughout this time, while also having experience in church ministry and as a high school teacher. Andy is married to Rachel, and together they have four daughters. He is a sports lover, a coffee drinker and loves living life within the local community.
Rob Nyhuis is the Executive Officer of the Churches of Christ in Victoria and Tasmania and Chair of the Churches of Christ Council in Australia. A previous Senior Minister of a multi- campus church, he also served as president of a local ministers’ network. Rob was also on the National Executive of the CRC church movement and was its national training director for four years. He was a teacher for seventeen years, including as head of a Christian Secondary School, and also coordinated a large church worship team for three years, as well as having served on numerous boards. Rob holds a Ph.D. from the University of Divinity, where he is also finishing an M.Th., and he holds an M.A. from Tabor College. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Rob is married to Anna and they have four children. He is a keen photographer, writer, and musician, and takes an interest in most major sports.
With a background in education as an Early Childhood teacher and a school leader, Dorothy Roberts has led a pastoral team that oversee ministry to families from birth to 30 years at Door Of Hope Christian Church since 2010. Recently ordained as a Minister for Churches of Christ, she has a passion to see an expanding Generation community who are actively following Jesus; loving others; giving glory to God. An enthusiastic lifelong learner: Dorothy is energised by the challenges of ministering in this current context. She has been married to Troy for over 30 years and they are proud parents to adult sons, James and Alec. She loves Jesus, her family, a cheese platter, and is developing her green thumb now Troy has finished building their veggie patch.
Andrew's lifelong passion, and commitment to God, is to see the local church reach its God given potential as the Bride of Christ and the hope of the world in Jesus, and to use his spiritual gifts of Leadership, Wisdom, Administration and Teaching to see people brought to faith, and grow to be a discipler of others, holding a mission-based mindset in whatever cultural situation God places them. Andrew is Chairman of Elders / Executive Minister (Head of Staff) at Door of Hope Christian Church, serving in this capacity since the early 2000’s, coaching, encouraging and pastorally supporting Elders, Ministers, Pastors, Staff and key Volunteers.
Melissa is the Children’s Pastor at Door of Hope Christian Church. Her heart for children’s ministry is to partner with the Holy Spirit to empower children so they can encounter Jesus and share God’s love. She has a passion for teaching children how to connect with Jesus on a personal level and has selected John 12:27 “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me” as an anchor verse for the ministry. She volunteered in a variety of roles for children’s ministry at Door of Hope for over 10 years before becoming the children’s pastor in 2020.
Kristie settled in Launceston in the mid-90s where she trained at the University of Tasmania as a Registered Nurse. Along with her husband, she currently lives and works at Worldview Centre for Intercultural Studies as a Team Leader and Operations Manager. She is currently the Lead Minister at Door of Hope Christian Church where she has been attending for almost 30 years. Kristie has experience in health care, vocational training, cross-cultural ministry, not-for-profit board positions and church ministry leadership.
Wini Heron is the Young Adults Pastor at Door of Hope Christian Church. Her heart is for the young adults under her care to love Jesus and thrive as disciple makers. With a primary passion for evangelism, Wini previously served as Pastor for Outreach and Evangelism at Door of Hope and also spent a total of seven years with Alpha. Originally from Malaysia, Wini now lives in Launceston, Tasmania, with her husband Tim and their three children gifted to them through adoption.
Bill has ministered with Power to Change (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) Cru for 43 years having spent 20 years in training youth ministry leaders then 15 years as National Director of the organisation with 170 missionary staff. Since 2014 Bill has been working as part of the Global Leadership team of the Church Movements strategy supporting and equipping pastors and church planters in building disciplemaking movements and multiplication of disciples, groups, and churches. Currently he is Regional Leader for North America and Oceania for Cru Global. He is married for 43 years with four married children and 13 grandchildren.
Tim Freyer is a follower of Jesus. He has bachelor degrees in theoretical mathematics and statistics and did post-grad work in statistics. What that means is that despite having a deep passion for disciple-making movements he is not even a little bit gifted as an evangelist. (He’s always on the lookout for tools that make connecting with others easier!) Tim and his wife worked for 15 years in the Middle East amongst those living in poverty and for the last 10 years, they have lived in Melbourne and been involved with Power to Change in helping local churches and church plants establish a disciplemaking pathway that takes the church out into the community. In his free time, Tim enjoys watching a sunset with a chai latte in hand.
Caroline brings years of experience in many aspects of Early Childhood and is the Birth – 4 years coordinator at Door of Hope. Organising our pre-school program, delivering parenting courses and supporting new parents in practical ways. Her passion is building good relationships with unchurched families, sharing Jesus’s love, grace, and acceptance.
Oliver is the youth pastor at Door of hope. He leads and shepherds our young people. His role consists of running and leading the Friday night program, connecting with services to build the youth of our local Launceston community as well as grow the young people of Tasmania through connections with Youth Alive and the Billy Graham Evangelistic association. Oliver is a loving husband to his wife Alicia and a father of his own youth ministry with five adventurous kids. Oliver loves a chat and can be seen worship leading our Sunday services and drumming on our team. He has a heart to see the young people of Launceston grow and connect to build the church and community of believers.
8:30am to 5pm Wed 19th June 2024
8:30am to 4pm Thu 20th June 2024
Launceston Conference Centre
50 Glen Dhu Street
South Launceston, Tasmania
6:30pm on Wed 19th June
Registrations close on
Friday 7th June 2024
