The founding vision of Multiply was to see a family of 40 churches multiplying followers, leaders, and churches together in Hampton Roads, Virginia by 2030. We still believe this is what God has called us to and we are working hard to reach this goal for our region!
Over the past few years God started to bring other visionary leaders to Multiply who had similar visions for reaching their own context. The first of these areas were India, Mexico, and Rwanda.
In light of these providential opportunities the Multiply Board of Directors began to prayerfully consider the role of Multiply in helping these indigenous organizations reach their goals.
What resulted was an expansion of the original vision set for the Hampton Roads region alone.
Now, we believe God wants to use us to bring a healthy, reproducing, Multiply Family Church into every under-resourced area of the world.
We will start by doing this in Hampton Roads by becoming a local family of 40 churches. But we won’t stop there! We will continue to partner with local churches and leaders all around the world who are interested in learning how to multiply followers, leaders, and churches in their region. We will target under-resourced areas within those regions to help churches multiply followers of Jesus. By doing this, we believe we will play a significant part in the Great Commission and ensure that followers of Jesus are maturing and multiplying everywhere there is need.
A Multiply Church is a church with Ministry Capacity and Mission Capacity that is using the 3F System to multiply followers, leaders and more churches. It has a pathway for multiplication that is anchored in a culture of followership where people learn how to be followers of Jesus with their local leadership. It has a development program that trains followers to be small group leaders, volunteers, team leads, deacons, elders, church planters and more.
A Multiply Church has the ability to reproduce itself as a new church expression without jeopardizing its own sustainability. Because of this, one Multiply Church connected to the global Multiply family has everything it needs to see the under-resourced in their region reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It multiplies followers as a family in every field (3F).
An under-resourced area is any collection of neighborhood, community, town, county, or village of the world where churches need assistance becoming self-sustaining, self-sufficient, and multiplying. The area may be under-resourced economically, spiritually, emotionally, educationally, or systemically. Importantly, a Multiply region is not necessarily defined by population size, geographic distance, demographics, or language. Instead, it is determined by the presence or absence of healthy, multiplying, sustainable churches capable of filling their region with followers of Jesus.
We believe every community deserves a healthy, multiplying church that shares the love of Jesus.
Our story started with a dream to plant 40 churches in Hampton Roads, Virginia by 2030.
God opened doors to partner with leaders in India, Mexico, Rwanda, and beyond.
We equip indigenous leaders to multiply followers, leaders, and churches in their own context.
Multiply Churches develop disciples, train leaders, and plant new churches with long-term sustainability.
We prioritize under-resourced places where churches need the most help to thrive and grow.
