At REAP India, we’ve always believed the Gospel moves fastest through local believers. That’s why our mission has never been just about planting churches but about equipping the people who plant them.
This year, we’re entering a new season of strategy and clarity as we launch our Disciple Maker Mobilization Plan. This is a refined church planting model built to move faster, steward resources wisely, and raise up more indigenous leaders across South Asia.
Why the Change?
Finding highly skilled church planters in many rural and tribal regions is difficult and time-consuming. But we also know that God often calls the willing before He equips the ready.
We’re now focusing on deploying disciple makers first, trusting that through ongoing training, mentorship, and field supervision, we’ll identify the ones who will go on to become long-term church planters.
This approach allows us to:
Move faster in spreading the Gospel
Cast a wider net to find faithful men and women ready to be trained
Equip believers at different stages of leadership, whether they’re evangelists, disciple-makers, or church planters
How It Works
As of April 2025, we’ve shifted to a three-tier deployment strategy, classifying all Christian workers into one of three categories based on supervision reports and quarterly reviews:
Category 1: Movement Leaders
Evangelists and itinerant workers are sent out for a 1-year term.
They spread Gospel seeds wide and far, often in unreached areas.Category 2: Static Leaders
Disciple-makers and local pastors are sent out for a 2-year term.
These leaders begin cultivating consistent discipleship.Category 3: IRCP Church Planters
Workers who demonstrate both fruit and faithfulness are given a 3-year term to plant a model church. These are our long-term, community-anchored planters.
This model allows us to graduate workers into roles that best match their calling and gifting:
After 1 year: Evangelists
After 2 years: Disciple-making pastors
After 3 years: Fully trained Church Planters
What’s Ahead
Between April 2025 and March 2026, 30 Christian workers will be deployed under this model. Based on past experience, around 70% of them will go on to become church planters.
We’ve already begun:
18 disciple makers are preparing to launch in Sri Lanka by June.
12 each in Rajasthan and Nepal by September.
Our vision remains the same: plant discipleship-driven, community-impacting churches. But now, we’re doing it through a pipeline of disciple makers God is shaping in real time.
How You Can Be Involved
This model means your giving goes even farther, supporting not just one church plant, but a movement of leaders being raised up and sent.
Here’s how to partner with us:
Pray for wisdom as we evaluate and equip each disciple maker
Give to support the next wave of Gospel workers in Sri Lanka, Rajasthan, and Nepal
Share this update with friends or churches who might want to invest in multiplying leaders
Together, we are advancing the Gospel, one disciple maker at a time.
