Discipleship International builds Christ-centered relationships, brings people in those relationships to a deeper maturity in Christ and to train them to do the same with others.

Win

Share the gospel that others may know who Christ is and what he did for us.

1 Peter 3:15

Build

Grow people up in their faith with tools and accountability to develop habits and a strong Christ centered foundation.

Colossians 2:7

Mobilize

Develop platforms for people to practically use what God is teaching them about following him.

Matthew 28:19-20

Just because Jesus focused his attention on a few does not mean that he did not want to reach the multitudes. Jesus had enough vision to think small. Focusing did not limit his influence—it expanded it.

Making disciples since 1994, Discipleship International has aimed to train Christians to train others and to make disciples of all nations. Using the Bible as our guide and the Equip to Serve training as a tool, we desire to see a stronger Christian church—one Christian at a time.

Online
Our Equip to Serve groups in Canada, East & South Asia, and East Africa have started meeting online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. We continue to use online groups to connect and disciple people virtually anywhere.

Canada
Between 2016-2021, over 400 students from Canada have taken the ETS training, more than 120 people graduated from the two-year training and are now discipling others.

Kenya
We partner with Manee Kenya and the ABC Church in Kenya and have celebrated over 1000 graduates to date from the Equip to Serve (ETS) discipleship training. Manee Kenya has expanded into Uganda and Congo as they continue to make disciples of all nations.

South Asia
We work with STEP ministries and the East India Pastors Network (EIPN) to provide local grassroots pastors with discipleship training and resources for their churches. This work has allowed us to work with other bordering nations as we translate the materials into their local languages, giving the local church resources that they desperately need.

The Philippines
We partner with local churches in Manila, Palawan, Culion and New Buswanga, having translated the training into Tagalog and Cebuano. The team has expanded the work into Singapore, Myanmar and Malaysia going to neighbouring nations with the tools and training to make disciples who make disciples.

Mexico
we partner with Discipleship International Mexico and local churches in the Northern, Central and Southern parts of Mexico. We have seen many come to faith through door to door evangelism and over 800 graduates from the ETS training. Our Director in Mexico is leading work now in Cuba and expanding into other Spanish speaking countries.

Global missions
We collaborate with all our partnering nations by sending short-term teams of ETS graduates from Canada to work alongside local churches in door to door evangelism, prison and recovery ministry and discipleship training.

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Meet the DI Team

Travis W.

General Director
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Tom Friesen

Provincial Director, Manitoba
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Belinda

Outreach Worker
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Jason Shellborn

Outreach Worker
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Sue Peattie

Administrative Assistant
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George Baarschers

Outreach Worker, Manitoba
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Pastor Aldrin Coronacion

Equip to Serve Coordinator
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Maritoni M.

Outreach Worker

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Doctrinal Statement

The Bible

We believe that all Scripture is inspired by God as men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit to record His words without error.
We believe that the 66 books of the Old & New Testaments have been providentially preserved by God as the infallible Word of God and the only authoritative guide for the faith and life of Christian discipleship.
God

We believe in God, the eternal Spirit, infinite in holiness, power, wisdom, righteousness, goodness, love and mercy.
In the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, of one essence, faculty, and glory; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit being coexistent throughout all eternity.
The Father

We believe in God the Father. The creator and sustainer of all things; who orders all things to serve His eternal purposes.
The Son

We believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, was conceived of the virgin Mary by special sovereign act of the Holy Spirit, so that His two entire, unflawed and separate natures, His deity and His manhood, were inseparably embodied together in one person, without alteration, compromise or confusion.
He lived His earthly life as a man, subject to all the trials and temptations of men, yet without sin.
His death on the cross was the special and complete act of atonement for the sins of all the world.
He rose from death in bodily form by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He ascended into heaven where He now intercedes for all who believe.
He will return bodily to this earth, will judge the living and the dead, and establish His eternal Kingdom.
The Holy Spirit

We believe in the person of the Holy Spirit, one with the Father and the Son, sent by them to effect redemption in man.
He convicts, regenerates, guides, teaches, indwells, empowers, comforts, intercedes, unites believers into one body, and glorifies Christ.
Mankind

We believe that man was created in the image of God, sinless, and in fellowship with God, with a free will to make moral choices.
But man sinned, and willfully disobeyed God, breaking fellowship with Him and bringing physical, spiritual and eternal death on the whole human race.
Consequently all are sinful by nature, in a state of rebellion against God, and therefore guilty before God and in need of forgiveness through Christ.
Salvation

We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
The Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, convicts men and women of their sin and need for salvation.
Those who repent of their sin and trust in Christ as Saviour and Lord receive forgiveness.
Saving faith involves a surrender of the will to Christ, a complete trust in him, resulting in a joyful obedience to His Word as a faithful disciple.
The church and its mission

We believe that the church is one body, the bride of Christ, established through God’s redemptive work in history.
Believers from all nations, races and social classes, regenerated by faith in Christ and cleansed by His blood, are baptized by His Spirit into one body and separated to God and are members of his body, whose head is Christ.
We believe that the command to make disciples of all nations is the primary task of the church.
Every member is a witness to Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and is to proclaim the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ in both words and actions.