DMM Training
Training OVERVIEW
Our DMM Training is an introduction to Disciple-Making Movements. DMM is a multiplicative disciple-making process that can lead to reproducing churches sweeping through a people group or population segment (often called Church Planting Movements or CPM).
We desire to help participants hear and discern the voice of God and then immediately obey what God says to do. This training will encourage participants to discover for themselves what the Bible teaches about prayer, making disciples, church planting, finding persons of peace, and many other topics.
We didn’t create this training. We received it from our brothers & sisters overseas who are seeing miraculous movements of God.
We have had the opportunity to train over 2,400 pastors and leaders in DMM and many are joining us on the journey toward movement.
After the training, you will have the opportunity to connect to an Ongoing Coaching group to receive help along the way.
If you’d be interested in going through a training with us to learn more about DMM, click the link below to sign-up.
Join us for a new 8-Week DMM Training where we’ll walk you through the multiplication principles being used around the world to see millions of people come to Christ!
UPCOMING TRAININGS
Wednesday January 15, 2025 @ 10 AM
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Training Prerequisites
We are so excited that you are interested in our DMM Training and hearing about what God is doing around the world in these miraculous movements that are reaching hundreds of thousands and, in some cases, millions of people!
We’ve found that it is incredibly helpful if each person starts the training with a common framework of basic concepts, vocabulary, and history discussed in the training. Here is what we ask you to complete before the training begins so that we’re all on the same page and you get the most out of the training:
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Read From Megachurch to Multiplication and summarize your top takeaways from the book.
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Read our blog posts starting with “Blog vs Book” to “Pastors & COVID-19” as these update you on what has happened since the book was published.
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Recruit at least two other people in your geographical area to take the training with you as a team. If you are a pastor or are on a church staff, try to have at least one person on your team who is not on a church staff. Encourage these people to also complete Steps 1 & 2 above.
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Each person should recruit at least 3 people to pray weekly for them during the training.
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Commit to attending each of the 8 weekly sessions and completing any homework assigned.
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Testimonials
"Ask the Lord if He wants you to do this training, and then COMMIT! eLife trained our team in the summer of 2019, and those sessions challenged us to the core - and changed the course of our lives and ministry! Chris is an incredibly gifted trainer, but the transformation came from the Holy Spirit revealing fresh insights into scriptures that were as familiar as the freckles on our noses. He showed us the strategies Jesus gave His disciples and empowered us to raise the sails for movement in our city!”
Suzie Judd, Pastor
Good News Church / Augusta, GA
"At the beginning of 2020 I signed up for the 8 week DMM training with Pastor Chris Galanos. Every week in our meeting it was very encouraging and helpful to learn with others and cultivate “steps of obedience.” After the training, I have been blessed to continue with the “coaching group” and this is really where I have been able to see the training develop and be put into practice. One of my favorite things in our weekly meeting is that we encourage each other, we’re believing for each other that God would do some amazing things in our cities, and we're helping each other. Since some are a little ahead in the learning curve, all this happens in big part thanks to our eLife coaches Tyler and Ty who every week provide great feedback, advice, encouragement and most importantly help us to stay accountable in our weekly goals. I would honestly invite people who want to make a difference in their community/city and learn to make disciples to do the training and continue with the coaching group.”
Allan
Paris / Dallas, TX
"Reading the book “From Megachurch to Multiplication” was just what I needed to hear! I work closely with churches in Atlanta that hold that same status but have been stuck wondering how to apply multiplication principles while trying to keep the “elephant” church alive! We were able to have Chris lead a lunch over Zoom as soon as Covid-19 hit. Due to the fact that so many had the time... we had close to 80 that came on every week to do the training! Then we were able to continue with our leaders online with Tyler in a Coaching Circle. That time has been invaluable! We have now seen a marked increase in number of groups and effectiveness in our going out every week and prayer walking! Thank you, eLife!”
Mark McGoldrick
CRU Atlanta, GA
"As I looked around the multisite church that I was leading, we had a lot of believers but not a single disciple. The DMM training opened my eyes to see what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Our church is now equipped to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples, and we are believing God will start a movement in the Pacific Northwest.”
Brent Hofen, Senior Pastor
Mission Church / Portland, OR
"I was taught to fish with a net instead of a hook. ”
Craig Swanson
Cumming, GA
"The Disciple Making Movement (DMM) training I received from ELife was awesome. It gave me a good overview of what DMM looks like, how to implement it and inspired me to seek the Lord in pursuing DMM in St. Louis. One of the things I so appreciated about the training is that it is the same training taken by leaders who have seen movement around the world in their context. It is not just some good ideas but actually field tested.”
Robert Stovall, Senior Pastor
Hope Vineyard Church / St. Louis, MO
"The DMM training wrecked my life...in a very good and needed way. DMM opened my eyes to passages in scripture that I had practically memorized but so familiar that I couldn’t see I was comfortably disobedient. I feel empowered to make disciples that make disciples and for the first time in my life truly believe God is going to bring a movement in the city I live.”
Jim Britts, Senior Pastor
Parkside Church / North County San Diego
"It didn't matter how "seeker friendly" we made our services, we found harvest fields didn't move! The DMM training was pivotal in helping us get unstuck by providing simple, practical techniques to teach our church so they could effectively go into the harvest and make disciples.”
Kelly Tshibaka, Senior Pastor
The Lighthouse Fellowship
Washington DC / Alaska / California
"At the height of the pandemic, my wife and I sensed the Lord calling us to plant a church. We believed he was calling us to take the Great Commission seriously and risk everything to see it accomplished. That's when we crossed paths with Chris Galanos and the eLife team. In the DMM training, our hearts came alive as we learned biblical strategies for disciple-making and multiplication and began to get a clear vision for reaching our entire region. This vision brought with it a viable new strategy of planting a network of small simple reproducing churches, rather than one large church. We are excited to reach all of the Permian Basin and believe that with the power of God's Spirit, it's actually possible!”
Dustin Pearce
Church Planter / Midland, TX
"Trainers from Experience Life have been a great blessing for our discipleship efforts in Brownwood. We started with 3 or 4 with interest from a Perspectives class. While we're still early in the process, we now have a DMM team of 16, 30+ others trained, with many more to be trained soon. While our primary teacher has been the Holy Spirit, we have definitely learned and been encouraged by our association with eLife. Our weekly coaching circle sessions have been crucial for our development as a team. Knowing we can hear regularly from others who are further along the discipleship road than we are is really helpful for us. It also is a model and encouragement for us to coach those who are not as far down the road as we are. We send our notes from the coaching session to our team, and we often discuss points from the session during our team meetings.”
Bryan Allen
Disciple Maker in Brownwood, Texas
"As a pastor of 15 years with a passion for disciple-making, I thought I had seen and heard everything there was on this topic. Yet, at the same time, I knew I was missing something when it came to making disciples the way it happened in the Bible and even in the history of my own denomination with the Methodist movement. When we stumbled upon Disciple-Making Movements and Chris Galanos’ book “From Megachurch to Multiplication” a light came on for me and the staff of our church. The training with Chris’ was exactly what we had hoped it would be and more. But beware. Once you get on the DMM train, you never know how far God is going to take you and where you’ll end up. You’ll be wrecked before you know it, never able to go back to pastoring and ministry the same way again. But you won’t want to once you begin seeing the results! It's a much welcomed paradigm shift in more ways than one.”
David Deans, Associate Pastor
Oakdale Church /
Olney, Maryland
Frequently asked questions
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What is DMM Training?
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The introductory training is 8-weeks in length and is designed to train people in multiplicative disciple-making principles from Scripture that are being applied around the world to see whole regions transformed by the power of the gospel. These trainings are not focused merely on knowledge acquisition but on obedience to the truths from Scripture that we are learning in each lesson. This training will help you learn to “raise the sails” for a movement of God in your area & then wait with anticipation for the Spirit to bring the “wind.”
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How much does the training cost?
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The training is absolutely free. We don’t charge anything for either the training or the coaching. Some people who have gone through our training have wanted to support our ministry, but it is not expected. If you would like to support our DMM Training efforts, click here to give.
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How long is the training?
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The training is 8 weeks in length. Each lesson lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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Where is the training held?
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We hold our trainings online using Zoom so that we can train people from all over the world.
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When does the next training start?
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The list of upcoming trainings is at the top of this page. If you do not see one that you can attend, please complete the interest form and we will contact you when we schedule our next training.
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Do you offer Ongoing Coaching after the training?
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Yes, we do. We will give you multiple Ongoing Coaching options at the end of the training.
