The Interface Program Roll-Out
September 2025
Over the past few months, we have rolled out the Interface Program as it currently stands for NCs and their teams to better understand the importance to Simply Mobilizing of this program. The four rollouts took place across three time zones with fifty-three countries participating, involving 253 participants!
The rollout covered Session 6 of the seminar, which focuses on Next Steps for Pastors, along with Workshops One and Two.
As you know, the Interface Program is our initiative for missional church development. It is our attempt to get mission from being a department in a church to being central and a church’s core focus. When discussing the program with pastors, I describe it as a local church discipleship program that is outward in focus—both locally and globally—and involves every believer.
We recently collaborated once again with Caleb Leadership Ministries to develop Workshop Three, as we did for Workshops One and Two, along with Andrew and Kelly Moore, SM Directors for NZ, who have journeyed with us through developing all the workshops. The current version of the Interface program includes:
The Seminar, which in five short video sessions explores the concept of a missional church from a biblical, historical, and contemporary perspective. The three workshops are designed to allow for practical outworking and implementation. They are as follows:
Workshop One – Growing Missional Disciples
Workshop Two – Growing Missional Disciples in Community
Workshop Three – Growing a Church of Missional Disciples in Community
We have had the opportunity to connect with several churches here in New Zealand through this program, which has significantly contributed to its development. A young couple from one church involved in the program said that it helps them become intentional about finding opportunities to witness for Christ in their daily lives. They are also teaching these same ideas to their children, who are now beginning to live a life on mission with God at their school. In the evenings, during meal times, they share their experiences with each other. That is exciting – Interface has the potential to disciple whole families missionally!
We are now creating tutorials for both Mobilizers and Pastors—enabling Mobilizers to facilitate the program’s events and processes, and empowering pastors to lead the change involved in a missional church.
We will keep you posted as to the progress being made!