The weekend after our 10 Year Anniversary, I shared with our church that we want to leverage every ministry at our church to help accomplish this new vision. We want to leverage weekends, groups, youth ministry, children’s ministry, and everything else to help us see 1,000,000 become disciples in the next 10 years.

We were so excited to let our church know about the vision for the next 10 years. We decided that our upcoming 10 Year Anniversary service on September 10, 2017 would be the time to do it. It would be our first time in almost 10 years that all 10 campuses would be together in 1 service.

DMM stands for Disciple-Making Movement. This acronym is also closely related to CPM which stands for Church Planting Movement.

I remember receiving the annual report a few years ago from one of our church’s mission partners. We had partnered with them for years in their work among the unreached. Their results were astounding. So astounding, in fact, that they couldn’t even measure their impact by themselves. They had to hire outside research teams to come in & try to calculate the number they had reached.

We had our number. We now knew the size of our people group & we knew what we needed to pray toward in the next 10 years. 1,000,000. Now for the 1st part of the question — “What’s it going to take…?”

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the WIGTake question that led our Leadership Team into a season of prayer & fasting about the direction of our church for the next 10 years. “What’s it going to take to reach everyone in our people group?” It’s a powerful question. It’s also a scary question. I had never asked it before. We had never asked it before.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Chris Galanos and I’m the Lead Pastor of Experience Life in Lubbock, TX. Experience Life, or eLife as we like to call it, is a church that my wife & I started in our living room in April of 2007. I had just graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX and we felt God leading us to come back to my hometown to start a new church.