Turn your vision for disciplemaking into a practical reality by joining us in Melbourne for the 2026 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 New Peninsula Baptist Church and Sydenham Baptist. Cultivate new connections with leaders from across the Body of Christ, be inspired, and share your experience with peers.
8:30am to 5pm on Tue 23rd June
8:30am to 4:30pm on Wed 24th June
Sydenham Baptist Church
350 Calder Park DriveSydenham VIC
Early Bird: $188 (Available until 31st March)
Regular Price: $250 (From 1st April)
Day Pass: $130
Participants are invited to join others for dinner (at own expense) on the Tuesday night at a venue to be confirmed.
Registrations close on
Tuesday 9th June 2026
Multiply is for pastors and ministry leaders who want more than busy ministry. It is for those ready to shift from running programmes to growing a disciplemaking movement with real Kingdom impact.
Hosted by Sydenham Baptist Church, this two-day gathering explores simple, transferable frameworks drawn from the life of Jesus. Together, we will learn how to create environments that connect people to Jesus, build them in their faith, and send them to make disciples.
Denominational leaders, pastors, lay leaders, and leadership teams who want to shape their ministry around disciplemaking. Multiply is especially valuable for teams wanting to clarify or strengthen their disciplemaking pathway together.
Multiply is less a conference and more a community of practice. You will:
Fresh vision. Practical tools. Meaningful peer connections.
And clear next steps to help you move from ministry to movement.
Steve Roggero is a prominent Baptist pastor in Australia, currently serving as the Senior Pastor at Sydenham Baptist Church in Melbourne. In addition to his pastoral duties, he holds the position of National Director at Catalyse Change, an organisation dedicated to training and consulting church and mission leaders in areas such as discipleship, mission, and leadership. Throughout his ministry, Steve has been committed to fostering discipleship and encouraging congregations to engage deeply with their faith.
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.
Paul Crothers is the Senior Pastor at New Peninsula Baptist Church. A dedicated leader with a passion for growing disciples, Paul is also a devoted father of three. Beyond his pastoral work, he is an avid cricketer and enthusiastic follower of the sport, as well as a loyal supporter of the Brisbane Lions.
Dr. Peter Roennfeldt has dedicated over five decades to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, serving as a pastor, evangelist, seminary teacher, church planter, and author. His extensive ministry has taken him across various cultures and countries, where he has led training programs focused on discipleship and church planting. He has authored several influential books, including "Following Jesus," "Following the Spirit," and "Following the Apostles' Vision," which explore disciplemaking and church-planting principles derived from the New Testament. His work emphasises the importance of following Jesus' model in mission and ministry, encouraging believers to engage in incarnational and relational outreach.
Following a short career in Occupational Therapy, Joss Irvin joined the New Peninsula Baptist Church Staff, in Children’s and Families Ministry, just under 10 yrs ago. During this time she has discovered how Jesus' model for disciple making can be embraced by all ages and is also passionately involved in Welcome Ministry, where she loves connecting with people who are new to faith and church. Joss is married to Rob and is a mum to three wonderful teenage kids. She loves a good list, is a bit competitive, bakes often, and enjoys making a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
John North has been working with Ambassadors for Christ International–Australia for 30 years, building a team focused on accelerating the spread of the gospel through local churches. John was born in India to Australian missionaries. He developed the LifeWorks evangelism tool which has seen thousands of Australians come to faith in Christ and is used by many churches around the world, is on the radio each morning in Sydney with the Time With God devotional spot, authors the Time With God daily devotional email read by more than 30,000 people each day. John trains church leaders to follow Jesus' process for building a disciplemaking movement of evangelism and multiplication.
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.
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.
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.
Multiply is brought to you by Concentric Australia, an alliance that seeks to mobilise Jesus-centric leaders in Australia and throughout the world who multiply movements of new disciplemakers, leaders, and healthy churches. Concentric members around the world use a common disciplemaking framework based on the life of Jesus that forms the foundation for SHIFTm2M (ministries to Movements) Training.
