The CDM Podcast

Come Pray for our brothers & sister in Christ that are Sanctified--set apart for a purpose--for a season. Join us as we pray for them as well as brother Tim Heiney's work in West Africa.

What is Project Next Gen? Paul and Rebecca discuss our critical need to intervene on the behalf of our youth and the next generation as Christians. In this podcast, they share the why and what of Project Next Gen. Using methods that have started movements around the world, we seek to recapture the hearts of the Next Generation and create comprehensive plans to reach more children and families than...

Remember The Prisoner: Prayer Today marks a milestone for the Freedom Initiative. Today's episode details what to expect in our newly released Prayer Podcast for prisoners. Join us in: Celebrations, Prayer Focus - Germany & more; and a nice, "dog-pile" prayer session for the prisoners. Tune in and pray for our brothers and sisters who are behind bars.

Busyness, sin, weeds, thorns, distractions, a poor schedule; these can paralyze our disciple-making endeavors and make it feel like a bummer... Don't be a bummer... Learn from practical examples and metaphors to help you reflect; there may be things in your disciple-making adventure that are sucking the joy out of the journey!

Don't miss this one! Prayer is our bottom layer foundation in Disciple Making Movement principles. Let's be sure to orient our efforts to include these 5 points so we are not moving forward in vain.

Preston Conder gives us raw insight into disciple-making; a journey of dashed hopes and throwing in the towel. But when God calls him off the bench, Preston makes a comeback that sees over 20 high schoolers come to faith and get baptized.

Preston Conder gives us raw insight into disciple-making; a journey of dashed hopes and throwing in the towel. But when God calls him off the bench, Preston makes a comeback that sees over 20 high schoolers come to faith and get baptized.

As the space between church and culture widens, we explore the fruit and unfolding vision of CDM’s Freedom Initiative. The FI unifies the body to bring God’s Kingdom to one of America’s most “hard-to-reach” people groups: the Incarcerated.  Getting involved is easy. Whether it is prayer, financial or as a mentor, we have teams and community for you to come with us. Email: team@contagiousdisciplema...

We unpack the the vision of Freedom Initiative and it's unfolding real-time.     Getting involved is easy. Whether it is prayer, financial or as a mentor, we have teams and community for you to discover and belong. Email: team@contagiousdisciplemaking.com with us.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more premium content. For just $5/month, you can have access to the premium content of each epis...

“I go and I hear about Contagious Disciple Making, about making the book of Acts come alive, about walking in obedience to Jesus, about listening to what he says and actually doing it no matter the cost. This is it. And my life will never be the same.” - Darlene Collom   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with Darlene Collom a disciple-maker in the Anglican Church and how discip...

"We want to see all peoples in our cities reached. Not just some people. We believe that through movements we can see whole families, whole communities, whole areas, coming in mass to Jesus and becoming disciple makers." - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing share the vision for CDM and discuss new initiatives and plans.   Visit www.patreon.com/faithworks for more prem...

“I said ‘Who needs [Jesus] the most of all these prisoners?’ The other chaplain said the medium security guys. To be in there you have to be in trouble after you have been in trouble. When he said that, I said there is where I am going. I had learned from CDM, you go to the hardest places first because that is where the fruit is.” - Jack McCarty In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing tal...

“The Prayer Calendar has been incredible. I literally feel lonely is I don’t do it. Because its like this really simple system where ever day I’m calling or texting someone in my life and being like ‘hey how can I pray for you this week’ and then I share my own prayer need. Is super awesome to have that network of prayer.” - Steven Cain   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing talk with...

“I was a little apprehensive to begin with but the minute we started talking about this being different than anything  they had ever done before, and opened the Bible up to God’s word and the first guy, not myself one of the other guys, read the passage from the Bible, it seemed like everyone in the groups hearts were touched right then and there. And it was like, this is where I’m supposed to be....

"The more time I spent there [in Israel], the more problems that I saw in the region, regarding peace and justice. It's my conviction that only the Kingdom of God can bring peace or justice. And as I continued to seek the Kingdom of God more and more, I came to see that nothing short of a disciple making movement would really make a material difference" Kevin   In today's podcast Paul Watson and R...

“I became a practitioner before I started teaching my people because I can’t ask my people to do stuff that I’m not doing. So when I’m talking to [pastors] the first thing I ask is ‘Hey are you satisfied with how you’re fulfilling the great commission? How your church is fulfilling the great commission?’ Because that is one of the things that got me initially looking around and finding CDM was I w...

“Our [Disciple Making] Community isn’t just meeting once a week. We’re doing life together throughout the week. And really making an impact in the community in places that are broken” - Joleene   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss the impact that Disciple Making Communities are making in local cities and how CDM made it possible in the San Diego area. They are joined by disci...

"As we look into engaging during the holidays, often times we think that either I will have fun or I will be about ministry. And the reality is that we can have both. In fact what we will have is so much more joy and meaning as we are able to enjoy these things with other people." - Rebecca Ewing   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing and Paul Watson share why the holidays are a great and effective ti...

"I can’t tell you how important that insider is. The indigenous person can do it, where and outsider like me, I have been in the [Prison] system for four years, I was a Chaplin, I was supposed to be a good guy. I’m supposed to be a minister of the gospel, but when we got an inside leader who has already been trained and brought up by God to be a leader in general…then it just began to explode." -...

"I don’t care if you are one person in the middle of no where, if you say I am willing to obey, I’m willing to follow, I’m willing to do something even though nobody else is, God is going to use it." Rebecca Ewing   In today's free podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing share about an upcoming event on November 1st, A National Night of Prayer for America and how we as disciple makers can respond an...

"Prayer mobilization is our primary recruitment tool for brining people into disciple making." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Rebecca Ewing and Paul Watson discuss mobilizing prayer. Discussing the darkness around us, and how we can use upcoming events to give our communities reasons to mobilize in prayer.   In part 2 , Rebecca and Paul share specific ways to take advantage of times and season...

"Jesus, when he came, wasn’t talking just about a kingdom to come, but a kingdom that is at hand" - Paul Watson   Recently, Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing, shared from the main stage of the New Wineskins conference. They spoke about Disciple Making Movements and Discovery Bible Study and how it can change communities for the Kingdom of God.  In today's free podcast we wanted to share this presentat...

"We want to mobilize disciple makers not just encourage them. Mobilizing is facilitating the action of doing it." - Rebecca Ewing In today's free podcast we present an edited version of a training Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing facilitated recently on the benefits of disciple making communities and the tools used in them.    In this week's premium episode , we present the full unedited version of t...

"Good engagement will often allow us to share and experience life together." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss the four areas of engagement, give some great examples, and how to make the most of all four areas. After that they look at the qualities of good engagement.   In this week's premium episode , Paul and Rebecca discuss how to hone engagement ideas and...

"You do not develop leaders in a classroom alone, you develop leaders as you help them get started in the habits." - Paul Watson   In today's podcast Paul Watson and Rebecca Ewing discuss generational thinking. They explore the ideas and the need to not just think about what we are doing now but to think about how what we do today effects the next two or three generations of disciple makers that w...