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Raising Disciple-Making Disciples

We recruit, train and send workers to reach, disciple and lead students.

What we do

What We Do


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Reach The Lost
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All Simple Churches participate in evangelism by having conversations and sharing the Gospel with students on campus or by serving and caring for vulnerable populations in our cities.

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Disciple Students
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This mission happens through Simple Church. Simple Church is how we train, equip, and empower students to become disciple-makers in fulfillment of the Great Commission.

In Simple Church, students have the opportunity to take the next step in their faith journey with the Simple Church apprenticeship through training courses on spiritual rhythms, multiplication, and leadership. In addition to on-the-ground leadership opportunities to become a disciple-maker and a Simple Church Leader.

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Raise Leaders
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Upon graduating, Simple Church Leaders are invited to take up the mantle of discipling students for the long haul by becoming a campus missionary supporting the long-term sustainability of the discipleship movement. Learn more about campus missionaries, below.
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Plant Churches
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LIFT now has nine campus churches, started by sending trained, ordinary believers to plant a Simple Church on a new campus.

Based on our conviction from scripture that all people are called to make disciples, we firmly believe that anyone can be sent to plant a church with training and equipping.

Each campus church plant starts as a single Simple Church - a group of missionaries who meet students and together multiple times a week to study scripture, serve their campus and city, and worship together on Sundays.

As the single Simple Church grows, leaders are raised up creating more space to start new Simple Churches, both on existing and new campuses.

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KAITHLYN, SIMPLE CHURCH LEADER AT LIFT UTM

"Through discipleship, I was invited into a relationship where I could watch and imitate my discipler as they modeled Christ in their own life, be trained in knowing and applying God’s Word, and be encouraged to invite someone else into that same kind of relationship.

When I received that challenge, I was scared because I didn’t feel wise, competent, or good enough to disciple someone else—especially those who were older or had more life experience than me. But as I stepped out in faith, I saw how God worked through my weaknesses and used me as I was. I learned to rely on His Spirit and the support of our church family, seeing that He is faithful and equips those He calls!”

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Campus Missionaries

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Every summer, LIFT trains a class of at least a dozen graduate students to become Campus Missionaries committed to reaching and discipling students through every stage of their life. These are ordinary people who have been discipled at LIFT over 3-4 years who have chosen to devote their lives to LIFT’s mission alongside their careers and for some, raising families. Campus missionaries play a key role in building a sustainable and scalable approach to church planting. LIFT currently has 108 campus missionaries serving across all nine campuses.
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Resources

We have developed discipleship resources to help people learn what church is and how to become a disciple-maker. Scroll to see them all.

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Living Sent Part One: Discovering Jesus
A one-on-one discipleship tool for students in their first or second year at LIFT. It walks through the foundations of faith: why belief in Jesus is sensible, why we can trust the Bible, and the core of the Gospel. Short teachings, reflection questions and next steps make it easy to introduce others to Jesus or disciple believers in their identity as children of God.
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Living Sent Part Two: Discovering Disciple-Making
The next step after Part One, for students entering the Simple Church Apprenticeship and learning to become disciple-makers themselves. Each chapter looks at our lifestyle, resources and relationships so we can make disciples in every area of life.
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Living Sent Kids
Our newest resource, written for the next generation. Rewritten from the original book, it invites children to discover who God is, how His Word shapes our lives, and how His people help us follow Him. Each chapter has a big idea, a memory verse, and conversation starters to guide families through kids' questions about the Bible and Jesus.
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Everyone Sent
Our missionary training book, built around one question: what is church? Through Acts and the epistles, it shows how ordinary believers can be mobilized for everyday evangelism and discipleship, so churches can be planted across nations. It teaches what it means to be a disciple-making disciple in a multiplying church.
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Living Sent Substack
Each week, Lead Pastor Robin Wallar shares insights on co-vocational ministry, disciple-making and church planting. Read his weekly posts.
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42 Royal Avenue, Hamilton, ON L8S 2C4
905-531-LIFT (5438)
info@liftchurch.ca
www.liftchurch.ca

Monday - Friday 9AM - 5PM
PO Box 89120, 991 King St. W, Hamilton, ON L8S 4R5