Disciple-Making Lab

The Disciple-Making Lab is a two-day event run by Kairos Connexion and GEM (Greater European Mission) in partnership with Jeff Vanderstelt, executive director and founder of Saturate.

Saturate seeks to equip the Church, God’s people, to make Jesus known in the places we live, work, learn, and play so that every woman, man, and child would have repeated opportunities to meet Jesus. 

The Disciple-Making Lab leads to each church represented creating their own bespoke contextualised disciple-making pathway, where disciples who make disciples are formed. 

At this year's Lab, your team will:

• Clarify and unify around your shared definition of a disciple.
• Cultivate a church-wide culture for disciple making.
• Design, build, and implement a disciple-making pathway for your church.
• Create tools, strategies, and processes to equip everyday disciples in your church.

The two-day event is the first step in a 10-month journey, followed by monthly, three-hour Zoom sessions packed full of teaching, guided reflection, exercises, discussion, and more.

There will be three sessions over the two days.

Day 1, Friday 12th June: 10am - 4pm; 7-9pm
Day 2, Saturday 13th June: 9am - 1pm.

Following these two days, there will be another two-day lab at St John's in January 2027  - Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd. To book now, click this link.

In between the two labs, online coaching sessions will be available at a cost of £25 per team per session. If this is a genuine issue for your church, please email nic@kairosconnexion.org.

All the sessions are on Wednesdays, between 2.30pm and 5pm.

2026

• September 2nd
• September 30th
• October 21st
• November 25th

2027

• February 24th
• March 24th
• April 28th

The main speaker at this year's Disciple Making Lab is:

Jeff Vanderstelt

Jeff serves as the Executive Director of Saturate. He is also the Founder of Soma, a global family of churches committed to seeing every woman, man and child meet Jesus through His body on mission everyday. He regularly works with teams toward gospel saturation in greater Seattle, Charleston, and Tokyo. He also serves as an emotional health coach for Tin Man Ministries. Jeff has authored Saturate, Gospel Fluency, and Making Space.

He lives in Seattle, WA with his wife Jayne and their three children.

Facilitators

Nic Harding

Nic Harding leads Kairos Connexion's City Reaching stream and is also the director of Together for the Harvest in the Liverpool City Region.

 Josh Walsh

Josh Walsh is the Director of Ministry Development for GEM UK.

Jeff Lothamer

Jeff Lothamer is the director of Kairos Connexion and also its (RE)Church stream.

Tickets have been subsidised to just £55 per person or £150 for a team. 

The discounted price for a team is limited to a maximum of five people. If you're planning to bring more, just add an individual ticket to your order.