IMPACT Australia · A 13-week series for your church

Discipleship in the Workplace

Your mission field is the place you already spend most of your waking hours. This free series helps your church make disciples at work, school, uni and wherever you volunteer.

“As you go, make disciples.”
Matthew 28:19, as Shawn Brace reads it in The Table I Long For
13 weeks
One church quarter
3 moves
Show up, earn the right, invite
5 practices
The CLOSE framework
Free
Guides and slides for every week
Why this matters

The church doesn’t have a mission. The mission has a church.

Shawn Brace, The Table I Long For, p. 19
You Your group of 3 to 6 Their workplaces The people they reach

Jesus didn’t say “go” as a one-off trip. The way the command is written assumes we are already going. Mission isn’t something that happens overseas or on a weekend program. It happens at the desk next to yours, on the tools beside you, in the group chat.

A weekend can light a fire. A small group keeps it burning. When a few people stop treating faith and work as separate worlds, they start reaching the people around them on purpose. Those people reach others, and the circle widens well beyond anyone who was ever in the room. Not more attendees. More disciples who make disciples, right where they already are.

A question to sit with

How many people have you consciously influenced toward the Kingdom in the last five years?

The framework

Get CLOSE

Three moves and five practices for everyday discipleship, drawn from Christ’s method: He mingled with people, showed sympathy, met their needs and won their confidence. Then He said, “Follow Me.”

Move 1 · Show up
Move 2 · Earn the right to be heard
Move 3 · Offer the invitation
Consistency
Be a consistently, unusually good person. The kind of life that makes someone ask why.
Monday
Be so consistently good that someone asks why.
Learn
Come as a learner. Ask humble, genuine questions and mean them.
Monday
Ask one real question, and mean it.
Observe
Listen well. Find the felt need sitting under the words.
Monday
Listen for the ache under the words.
Share
Speak the good news of hope directly into that need.
Monday
Offer the scripture in your own words.
Extend
Invite them one step onward: a meal, a group, a program.
Monday
Invite them one step closer.

“There is need of coming close to the people by personal effort.” Ellen G. White, Ministry of Healing, p. 143

The series

13 weeks. One quarter. Your whole church.

Built to fit the rhythm your church already runs on. Use it in a Sabbath School class, a small group or a midweek program. Each week has a facilitator guide and slides, so anyone can lead it.
Weeks 1 to 4

Show up and start noticing.

Workshop · Consistency · Learn begins
In your week
You pray for your five names on the drive in, and ask a colleague how their weekend really went.
Weeks 5 to 8

Earn the right to be heard.

Learn · Observe · Share begins
In your week
You notice a workmate is quieter than usual, check in, and offer to cover a shift.
Weeks 9 to 13

Offer the invitation.

Share · Extend · Commissioning
In your week
You ask a colleague to lunch, just to get to know them better, and share a bit of your own story.

What’s in the pack

Facilitator guides

Step-by-step notes for leading each of the 13 sessions.

Presentation slides

Ready-made slides for every week, so you can focus on your group.

What your group will actually do

Identify your sphere

Start the conversations

Multiply it

Get the free resource pack

Run it at your church

Tell us a little about you and we’ll email you the full pack straight away: facilitator guides and presentation slides for all 13 weeks.
You don’t need to be a pastor. If you can gather three people, you can lead this.

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Gather your group and start week 1

Resource Pack (#13)

Stories of mission

It’s already bearing fruit

Ordinary people, ordinary workplaces, God doing the rest. Read them, be encouraged, and add your own when God opens a door.
Field Work
Science & Engineering

Discipleship in the Ute: Finn’s Story

We spent hours on the road together, and slowly the talk turned to the things that actually matter. I don’t know how his story ends. But I know a seed went in.

'Finn'
David Brown
Read story
Office
Trades & Services

Discipleship in the Office: Alex’s Story

We just worked side by side, day after day, and somewhere in all those ordinary conversations a real friendship grew. Years later, they were sitting at our wedding.

'Alex'
David Brown
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Remote
Self-employed
Technology

Remote Discipleship: Claudine’s Story

She’s a colleague I’ve never once met face to face. When her hardest season came, we simply didn’t leave. That was the whole difference.

Claudine
David Brown
Read story
The Community

You don’t have to do this alone

Join others running the series. Swap ideas, ask questions and pray for each other’s names.
Not on Facebook? You can still read and share stories right here
Ready when you are

Your mission field is the place you already are.

Be patient. Faithfulness is never wasted.
“Let your heart be animated by the love of Jesus to ardent activity for His glory.” Ellen White, Our High Calling, pg 147.
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