Discipleship growth begins slowly. Like with plants, initial growth is unseen as the roots persist down into the ground. It may look like nothing is happening but the roots are busy generating resources, so that later the visible above ground flourishing can occur.
For his first few years, Peter focused on his home town of Jos, laying down roots, and forming a team to expand into other parts of Nigeria. He hosted Basic Trainings to meet new leaders and brought them back together for Follow Ups. Below is what the process looked like over the year with one group in Jos. The result was God providing twelve interested candidates to go deeper at a Leadership Development Summit.
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