Multiply Group | Discipling Leaders
We exist to equip you with an intentional approach to multiply healthy leaders because the mission of the Gospel is too great to be left to chance.
Our Mission
Sessions
Building a Discipleship Pathway for Leaders in Your Church
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 03:30 PM (EDT) Faith Hall Room 301D
Many churches disciple believers well, but few disciple leaders with clarity and intention. In this session, we’ll explore the chronological journey Jesus used to take twelve ordinary young men and prepare them to lead a multiplying movement. You’ll learn how to build a clear, intentional pathway that develops leaders at every level of your church, from first-time volunteers to seasoned staff. Walk away with a replicable model you can implement immediately to raise up leaders who actually multiply leaders.
Building a Leadership Pipeline for Your Worship Ministry
Wednesday 08:45 AM - 09:45 AM (EDT) Faith Hall Room 301D
Healthy worship ministries don’t depend on one or two gifted people - they’re built on systems that consistently identify, train, and release new worship leaders. This session equips you with practical steps for developing a worship leadership pipeline that elevates your culture, strengthens your team, and prevents burnout. You’ll discover common development challenges in worship ministry and learn proven practices for raising up musicians, vocalists, and worship leaders who serve with spiritual maturity and musical excellence.
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Developing the Leaders on Your Staff
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 03:30 PM (EDT) Faith Hall Room 301D
Speakers Michele Barnett Mac Lake
Your staff are the key multipliers of your church’s vision—yet many pastors unintentionally overlook their development. In this session, you’ll learn simple, sustainable practices that strengthen your staff’s leadership capacity and build a culture of growth, clarity, and ownership. Discover why many ministry directors struggle, how to invest in them strategically, and how intentional development transforms not only your team but the results they produce.
Raising Up Church Planters From Within
Thursday 08:45 AM - 09:45 AM (EDT) Faith Hall Room 301D
Speakers Mac Lake Peyton Jones
Most churches look outside when they need new leaders. But some of the most effective church planters are already sitting in the congregation. This session explores how churches can intentionally identify and develop church planters from within their own leadership pipeline.
All multiply Group workshop sessions will be hosted in Faith Hall - Room 301D.
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Speakers
Mac Lake
Mac has a driving passion for leadership development. He has planted a church, served as a Leadership Development pastor for a large multisite church, started a church planting network, and founded his own company Multiply Group. He is the author of six books including The Multiplication Effect and The Discipling Leaders Series. You can learn more about his approach to leadership development at Youtube.
Mike Seay
Mike Seay is a worshipper, husband, and dad of three. He’s an author, builder, and coach who has led in worship and creative ministry for over 20 years. Mike is the co-founder of Multiply Group alongside Mac Lake, helping churches intentionally multiply healthy leaders, and the founder of Reworship—a movement and book calling believers, worship leaders, and churches to rediscover the heart of worship and cultivate thriving worshiping communities. reworship.com
Michele Barnett
Michele Barnett is passionate about empowering leaders and teams to reach their healthiest potential. Starting her journey as a youth intern and later stepping into roles in student ministry, Michele went on to serve with LAUNCH Network and the North American Mission Board’s Send Network as Senior Director of Church Planter Assessments. Today, she works with the Multiply Group as COO and Master Trainer of Leadership Accelerator, equipping teams to create thriving, high-performing cultures. Michele’s heart for coaching, training, and speaking is evident in all she does to inspire church leaders and planters.
Peyton Jones
Peyton Jones is a serial church planter, author, speaker, outreach consultant, and founder of NewBreed Training. Born in Washington, D.C. but raised in Huntington Beach, CA (Surf City), he married the girl he fell in love with at 17. He is the proud father of two amazing girls. Peyton served as a youth pastor, assistant pastor, and interim pastor of the mega church Refuge Huntington Beach that has served as his sending church since 1999 when he embarked on a 12-year mission to Wales UK. Originally serving as the Evangelist at Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s historic Sandfields church, Peyton served as both the interim pastor, and helped them plant their first church. From there, Peyton engaged in a replant of a Baptist congregation in West Wales, which grew and led to Peyton planting a collegiate church in a neutral venue based around discussion groups. Peyton’s church planting experience include planting a church out of a Starbucks, which multiplied three churches, to planting a church in urban Long Beach, that also planted two other churches.
In both the U.K. and United States, Peyton formed NewBreed Training, a training collective that specializes planting in hard places utilizing 1st century principles. NewBreed is a collaborative network and Peyton has served Presbyterian (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist), Baptist, Southern Baptist, Calvary Chapel, RCA, and Nazarene churches over the years. Peyton has also been bi-vocational for nearly 20 years, using his RN license, serving as a firefighter, factory worker, barista, online university instructor, or anything that will help him accomplish the mission. Peyton also co-founded Church Planter Magazine, the Church Planter Podcast, Hardcore Church Planting Podcast, and the Ministry Ninja Podcast. Peyton is passionate about writing (Church Zero 2013; Reaching The Unreached 2017; Church Plantology 2021; and Discipology 2026), and training. Training under Mac Lake, Peyton assisted NAMB in a training rewrite project, and managed training for the Western United States/Canada. In addition, Peyton has developed his own training called CityWide that trains planters in collaborative church planting teams wired for multiplication, and Jump School (a six-month training for planters to train their core teams). Peyton has also served as Content Director for both Exponential and Through the Word, helping develop transformative resources for a wide audience of Christians and church leaders.
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Learn how to build a leadership pipeline from the ground up.
The Multiplication Effect by Mac Lake is the go-to guide for churches serious about developing leaders.
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From easy-to-use tools to step-by-step frameworks, we provide everything you need to build a thriving leadership culture, raise up disciple-making leaders, and create sustainable growth that impacts every area of ministry.
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“About two years ago, we discovered the Leading Others book, and since then, we’ve had over 40 of our leaders go through it. It’s been revolutionary for developing leaders in our church. As a church of just over 300 people, we’ve been able to grow to over 170 monthly volunteers by using the Multiply Group resources. These books have played a huge role in helping us develop more leaders and see our church grow in a really solid way over the past couple of years.”
“The Multiply Group materials have been a game-changer for us. We’re a medium-sized church, not too big or too small, and these resources have allowed us to be strategic and impactful in our leadership development efforts…The framework of pairing competency with character really resonates with us - we’ve found it’s crucial to develop leaders who not only have the skills, but the right heart and values as well.”
Great leaders accomplish meaningful work. Super Multipliers build leaders who expand that work far beyond themselves. In Super Multiplier, Mac Lake delivers a practical and inspiring guide to developing leaders who multiply—creating a leadership culture that reproduces itself.
Drawing on over 30 years of experience in leadership development, Mac combines biblical principles with proven frameworks to help pastors and organizational leaders unlock potential, invest intentionally, and build leaders who develop other leaders.
What You’ll Discover:
A Clear Multiplication Mindset: Learn the difference between adding followers and multiplying leaders—and why the shift changes everything.
A Practical Leadership Development Framework: Implement a repeatable system for identifying, equipping, and releasing emerging leaders.
Tools for Building a Multiplying Culture: Create clarity around roles, expectations, and next steps so leadership grows at every level.
Built-In Implementation Resources: Includes practical exercises, reflection questions, and tools to help you apply the Super Multiplier principles immediately.
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Watch Episode One from the Multiply Group Podcast Limited Series, “Generational Leadership”.
In episode one Mac Lake, and his son, Brandon Lake discuss physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
