5 IN 12
Five Trainings. Twelve Months.
Disciples who make disciples — equipping your church with simple, reproducible tools for evangelism and discipleship, until there's No Place Left.
Sept 30 Zoom Call — Problem Solving Barriers
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · 5 IN 12 Learning Community
Practitioners from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Nepal shared rollout updates and worked through common barriers: condensing the Four Fields Intensive, moving people from events into weekly rhythms, and casting the full 5 IN 12 vision up front.
What it unlocks for you and your church
Best-in-class, simple, reproducible tools for evangelism and discipleship — so your people leave competent and confident to make disciples.
Gospel fluency
Increased Gospel fluency woven into the body life of your church, and greater spiritual maturity across the congregation.
Gospel-fueled leaders
Raise up leaders who strengthen every ministry and release the potential of multi-generational disciple making.
Activated giftings
An obedience-based — not merely knowledge-based — approach that activates latent spiritual gifts and empowers spiritual formation.
Reaching every sphere
Members equipped to impact their neighborhood, workplace, and campus through pray–care–share and proven tools.
An in-house team
We help develop and equip an in-house gospel / disciple-making training team for sustainable equipping of the church.
Great Commission unleashed
Activate and form Great Commission teams that multiply the training and impact lostness across the city.
Five touches, twelve months — connected every week
The five trainings light the fire. The critical success factor is what happens between them: a weekly Community of Practice where disciple making becomes a way of life, not just an event.
Model
Assist
Watch
Intensive
Training
A weekly Community of Practice between every touch.
What hosting a 5 IN 12 rollout looks like
It isn't an event you book and forget — it's a twelve-month rhythm you host. Here's exactly what it looks like. We'll help you through the entire journey so your church or city team will experience the tremendous impact and produce tremendous fruit for the Kingdom.
Cast vision & gather a host team
Rally a coalition of churches and ministries around a shared vision — with clear expectations for the entire one-year rollout. Recruit a host and a 4Fields lead trainer, and pray-walk your neighborhoods beforehand.
Schedule the five trainings
Set the three Gospel Conversations roughly twelve weeks apart, then the 4Fields Intensive and Midlevel Training. Add your city to the shared Schedule.
Launch weekly discipleship groups
The same week as training #1, get Commands of Christ discipleship groups running so people obey what they just learned.
Sustain a weekly Community of Practice
Between every touch, gather to discover the rhythms of disciple making together — with one another and with coaches farther along.
Join the Learning Community
Plug into a nationwide community of hosts and trainers on Zoom to share what's working and keep the fire spreading.
Join the 5 IN 12 Learning Community
A nationwide Zoom learning community — hosted by our team — where hosts, trainers, and practitioners share best practices for running a successful 5 IN 12 rollout. See the schedule, join the discussion, and catch up on past calls.
Experience the real, radical, relevant Jesus Christ.
Let's go after the harvest together.
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5 in 12 Training Rollout · e3 Partners
Training Schedule
Locations, local practitioners, and dates for the 5 in 12 rollout. Don't see your city? Add it below — this list is meant to grow.
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5 in 12 Training Rollout Plan
A practical, fill-in guide to hosting a 4Fields “5 in 12” training rollout — the five trainings, the tools, the training-day checklist, and promotional descriptions.
Rollout Plan
Schedule your five trainings ~12 weeks apart, launch weekly groups, and access every training tool.
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Vision Plan with Troy Cooper
Taught by Troy Cooper with practitioners worldwide — the five trainings, core principles, and a ready-to-use action plan.
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Zoom Call Summary Sept 30 – Problem Solving Barriers
Global rollout updates plus practical solutions for the intensive, weekly rhythms, and casting the full 5 IN 12 vision.
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En Español
El proceso completo del despliegue 5 IN 12 — hacer discípulos → plantar iglesias → movilización misionera.
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Value to Each Participant
A letter for anyone considering the journey — a 12-month path to know God like never before.
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Value to Your Church
Share with elders & staff — how 5 IN 12 strengthens discipleship, church health, and gospel impact.
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4Fields Field Notes
Live flip-chart notes — the training schedule, the 4:1:1 tool, goal-setting, and the Church Circle.
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Learning Community
A nationwide community of hosts, trainers, and practitioners learning to run successful 5 IN 12 rollouts together — on Zoom every other month, hosted by our team.
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How it works
Every other month we gather on Zoom to share best practices, troubleshoot challenges, and encourage one another. See the upcoming sessions below, join the discussion threads, and catch up on past calls anytime.
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▶ Past calls & recordings
📋 Call Recap — Sept 30, 2026: Global Rollout Strategy & Updates
5 IN 12 Learning Community — Zoom Call Summary
Leaders running 5 IN 12 rollouts around the world checked in on where they are (first touch through Four Fields Intensive), what fruit they’re seeing, and what’s getting in the way. The group then worked through the most common barriers together: getting people to commit to a four-day intensive, moving participants from one-off events into weekly rhythms, and whether to cast the full 5 IN 12 pathway up front.
Key takeaways
- Cast the full vision. Presenting the whole pathway, dates and all, filters for committed leaders and prevents one-off event attendance.
- Weekly rhythms are essential. Find a local insider who owns the weekly gathering, and set that expectation from day one.
- Follow up immediately. When the event ends, the work begins: a Signal group, a clear next-step pathway, and a set weekly meeting time.
- Flex the intensive. A condensed 2–2.5 day intensive works; key leaders can join a full four-day intensive elsewhere later.
- Swarm new launches. Pull leaders in from the surrounding region to build momentum and multiply ownership.
Rollout updates shared on the call
- Atlanta / St. Simons Island, GA — past the third touch; a house church has started
- Chicago, IL — working on the fourth touch
- SF Bay Area, CA — launching in February with a goal of 150–300 at the first touch
- Detroit, MI & New Waverly, TX — first touch scheduled in Detroit; New Waverly in planning
- Lovington, NM — bilingual first touch; ~50 gospel conversations in 45 minutes
- St. Louis, MO — salvations and a baptism in an apartment complex
- Bolivia & Peru — three touches done in Bolivia; a full-year calendar in Peru
- Europe — multiplied from Germany into Italy, Romania & Hungary
- Nepal — 150 leaders mobilized toward 27 rollouts; three already launched
Read the barriers & solutions discussed
Adapting the four-day intensive
Many participants struggle to commit to four days. Troy shared that a condensed 2–2.5 day format (e.g., all day Saturday and Sunday) has worked in Europe and New Zealand. Don suggested pairing a condensed local training with an invitation for key leaders to attend a full four-day intensive held elsewhere, using a shared calendar.
From “super trainers” to local rhythms
Some participants attend trainings without implementing the work. The group agreed that weekly rhythms are extremely important and depend on a local insider who takes ownership. David stressed immediate follow-up and clear expectations from the start.
Partial vs. full pathway
The group’s experience strongly favors presenting the full vision up front. Being direct about the dates and commitment has drawn an overwhelmingly positive response, while showing only part of the process tends to produce one-off attendance with little long-term fruit.
Read the best practices & tools
- Build a pre-launch coalition. Pull leaders from the wider region to “swarm” a central launch so they catch the vision and carry it home.
- Set expectations early. Local teams commit to leading weekly touchpoints, not just hosting an event.
- Follow up immediately. Start a dedicated Signal group, share a clear next-step pathway, and set a regular weekly time for harvest and accountability.
- Cast the whole 5 IN 12 vision to identify leaders who are serious about the commitment.
- Lean on cross-pollination. Teams across regions and organizations (including e3, Global Gates, and Launch Global) are swarming launches and sharing resources, including Spanish-language support.
- Get your event on the map. A North American website and training calendar is in development. Eventbrite events from the Sent Ones or I Am Second accounts will sync automatically; other events can be emailed to Meredith Curtis.
- Stay connected through the practitioners’ Signal group between calls for questions, updates, testimonies, and support.
📋 Call Recap — 5In12 Best Practices with Troy Cooper
5 IN 12 Learning Community — Zoom Call Summary
The call centered on the 5 IN 12 framework — a systematic approach to disciple-making, church planting, and leadership development built around five trainings spread over roughly 12 months. Troy Cooper walked through the structure and reasoning behind it, stressing that the real goal is identifying and equipping local leaders who can form reproducing apostolic bands. Practitioners from Toronto, Germany, London, New Zealand, and Houston shared their own case studies and in-progress rollouts. Don Waybright’s central contribution was naming the critical success factor: not the trainings themselves, but whether people move into a sustained weekly community of practice between sessions.
Core principles from the call
- Leader-multiplication over event-multiplication
- Success is measured by community, not attendance
- Assess at the 12-month mark, not after each session
- Shrinking attendance is a filter, not a failure
- Follow the Great Commission’s built-in progression
- Relationship happens outside the curriculum
Case studies shared on the call
- Bogotá & Houston (Don Waybright) — citywide rollouts leading to multiple church plants and apostolic teams
- Koblenz, Germany (Troy Cooper) — one committed leader from Training 2 became central to a “1:39” leadership band
- Wellington, NZ (Caleb) — rapid growth from the first training, now spreading to new local sites
- Houston Commands of Christ (Brad) — 8 of 10 targeted unreached people groups adopted by apostolic bands
Read the five trainings, step by step
Precursor — Vision Meeting
Cast vision with prospective partners through case studies and Bible stories, then lock five training dates onto a calendar within a 12–18 month window.
Training 1 — Model (4–8 hrs)
An outside team “swarm trains” the first session — vision, gospel-conversation basics, disciple-making tools, and a cost-counting moment — then sends people out to practice.
Training 2 — Assist (~12 weeks later)
Same content, but local trainers help lead it while the outside team begins identifying emerging local leaders.
Training 3 — Watch
The outside team steps back and watches locals lead — typically where the truly “hungry” leaders become visible.
Training 4 — Four Fields Intensive (ideally 4 days)
Shifts from best practices to biblical principles (Fields 4 & 5), equipping people to start churches with a concrete strategy.
Training 5 — Problem Solving (a weekend)
Invite-only for actual practitioners. Addresses real obstacles and transitions committed leaders into ongoing coaching — a residency or a leadership-development band.
Read the full action plan
- Assemble a catalytic team and hold a vision-casting meeting using story- and case-study-driven communication.
- Lock five training dates onto a calendar within a 12- to 18-month window before doing anything else.
- Recruit 4–8 outside trainers to swarm-train Training 1, then release participants to practice for ~12 weeks.
- Shift leadership gradually across Trainings 2 and 3 — from modeling, to assisting, to watching locals lead.
- Explicitly vision-cast the weekly Commands of Christ time commitment (4–6 hrs/week), and shepherd — don’t just launch — the weekly rollout between trainings.
- Schedule Training 4 as a 2–4 day Four Fields Intensive anchored in the Gospels and Acts.
- Keep Training 5 invite-only for practitioners — the one training worth being selective about.
- Decide deliberately between a single-church, citywide, or hybrid model based on what’s generating traction in your context.
- Transition committed leaders into ongoing coaching after Training 5 — a residency or a leadership-development band.
- Set attendance expectations in advance; assess success only at the 12-month mark.
- Build sustained prayer and fasting for laborers into the whole process.
- Notify Don and Troy when you host a training, so the broader learning community can support and learn from it.
- Register for and attend the next Learning Community call in late September.
💬 Discussion threads
Post a question, share a story from the harvest, or pass on what's working. Start a topic and let others weigh in.