Make Disciples Ministries was incorporated as a Virginia nonprofit corporation on 1 September 2026. We want to share why.
Start Your JourneyFrom the beginning, our mission has been simple: to help the church make disciples: equipping believers to grow in Christ, and equipping ministries to send and support workers to the field. Everything we build, from discipleship courses, reading plans and assessments to the tools that help churches organize mission trips and care for their teams, exists to serve that one calling.
Incorporating as a nonprofit lets us pursue that mission as a ministry rather than a product. It allows us to:
Create and continually strengthen biblical resources that help people grow in their knowledge of and obedience to Jesus.
Help leaders in churches and ministries disciple others well.
Connect, equip, and support churches and ministry organizations as they send and care for workers on the field.
We're early in this journey and walking it carefully, operating under an independent board with sound governance and a clear charitable mission. Our heart is to serve the ministries, organizations, and churches we work alongside, and to keep building tools that help the church make disciples. We'll share updates as we reach each milestone.
In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Genesis 12:3
When God called Abram, the promise reached straight past him to every family on earth. Paul says something startling about that line in Galatians 3:8. He calls it the gospel, preached in advance. The blessing of the nations was never the warm-up act. It was the thing itself.
Then comes the strange scene in Genesis 15. Abram cuts the animals in half, and by the custom of the day both parties to a covenant walk between the pieces, as a way of saying: let this happen to me if I break my word. But Abram falls asleep. Only God passes through, as a firepot and a torch. He walks both sides. He takes the cost of keeping the covenant and the cost of our breaking it.
When God says through Hosea "I desire mercy, not sacrifice," the Hebrew is chesed: covenant faithfulness, love that keeps its word. Translators have rendered it mercy, steadfast love, loyalty, lovingkindness, because no single English word carries it. Jesus quotes that verse twice, in Matthew 9:13 and 12:7, to people who were using the ritual as a substitute for the relationship.
So when Samuel tells Saul that to obey is better than sacrifice, he is not raising the bar. He is lowering it to the one thing God actually wanted. The Hebrew for obey is shama, which means to hear. Obedience is hearing that answers.
Which is where Romans 10 lands. How will they call on him they have not believed in? How will they believe in him they have not heard of? How will they hear without someone to tell them? And how will anyone tell them unless they are sent?
We do not go because we are adequate. We go because the promise was always to the nations, God secured it himself, and he invites us in anyway. That is why this platform exists, and it is why the going and the following are the same work.
The beauty of following God comes with the first step. The consistency comes after you realize the power of the first yes. Robert Krause, Founder
There are two yeses, and underneath they are the same one.
To follow Christ.
Every yes that follows: opening his word, obeying what you read there, loving the people next door, and sometimes going to the other side of the world.
Start Discipling is built for that daily yes. Missions is one way to say it, and when it takes you further, GO carries the logistics. The same people built both, because discipleship that never gets sent anywhere stops early.
Missions is one way to say the second yes. Sometimes it has a passport and a date on it, and then the practical weight is real: applications, waivers, budgets, donations, and a team that has to arrive prepared and come home well.
Before there is a trip
Six sessions on why anyone goes at all, written for people with no trip on the calendar.
Before you leave
Why you are going, cross-cultural care, team dynamics and spiritual preparation.
After you come home
Seven sessions of debrief that begin on the last day, because the weeks after a trip decide whether it lasted.
The logistics live on GO. It handles trips, applications and giving, so a trip leader can spend their attention on people rather than paperwork.
