Confidence
Practice the skills of disciple-making until they come naturally.
Sent Ones DFW
Discipleship residency
A free, 32-week, two-semester cohort, currently ongoing in Tarrant County.
Why a residency?
Jesus did not leave his disciples with a lecture. He walked with them, trained them, and sent them. This residency exists for that same work: to equip ordinary followers of Jesus to multiply faithful disciples, healthy churches, and catalytic leaders.
The focus is population segments and people groups that still have little access to the Gospel, here in Dallas–Fort Worth and among the nations, until there is#NoPlaceLeft (opens in a new tab)without the Gospel.
- Discover your calling and gifts.
- Develop confidence and skill.
- Deploy to start and multiply groups.
What you gain
Competency
Learn a clear strategy: five parts and four fields.
Calling
Get clearer on your spiritual gifts and where God is sending you.
Community
A group of practitioners for encouragement, loving accountability, and partnership.
By the end, you are encouraged to start a multiplying group, church, or another cohort.
Built for a real week
Made for bi-vocational laborers and people with full-time work. Couples are encouraged to take part together. It does not cost anything except your comfort.
About six hours a week, around a two-hour gathering:
Gather
2 hours. Cohort time to encourage and equip one another.
Harvest
2 hours. Entry, the Gospel, and discipling a group or church.
Train
2 hours. Training other Christians to do the same.
Two semesters, 32 weeks
Semester 1
Foundations for the harvest: God’s big vision, the four fields, simple Gospel tools, the Commands of Christ, discovery study in Acts, prayer, persons of peace, and four weeks of modeling simple church.
Semester 2
Leading further: strategy, people groups and diaspora, worldview, church health from Paul’s letters, tracking, appointing leaders, and abiding in Christ.
Both semesters include personal coaching and Iron on Iron, and they end around a table.
A cohort is meeting now in Tarrant County. The weekly day and time, the meeting place, and the start of a later cohort are not confirmed on this page.
What you use
The Bible, the Commands of Christ, Bible Stories of Hope, the 4 Fields Manual, and Everywhere and Pioneering Movements by Steve Addison.
The same five-parts and four-fields sheet is on the resources page, with the labels written out.
If you are wondering
- Your walk with Jesus is marked by maturity, discipline, and abiding.
- You regularly share the Gospel, or you have done outreach training.
- You are faithful, available, and teachable, and ready to reproduce what you learn.
Get involved
Sent Ones DFW is a network of disciple makers with communities in Tarrant, Denton, Dallas, and Collin counties. Connect with a community, grow alongside others, and take a next step in making disciples.
Those communities are the wider network. The Discipleship Residency is the cohort currently ongoing in Tarrant County. It is not a residency in all four counties.
The weekly day and time, the meeting place, and when another cohort will start are not confirmed on this page. There is no application link. Writing us is a way to ask and to get involved. It does not hold a place in the cohort that is already meeting.