IDMM is a wholistic, Spirit-led strategy that fuses Disciple Making Movements (DMM) with Community Health Evangelism (CHE). It equips everyday believers to bring the love of Jesus where they live and work—so simple, sustainable, locally led movements can grow.
IDMM unites multiplying discipleship with practical community transformation; essentially a discovery group model of CHE. Discovery-based Bible studies are learner-driven, obedience-oriented, and community-empowered. As people engage Scripture and apply it, they also learn life-giving practices—health promotion, disease prevention, livelihoods, and stewardship. Faith deepens. Habits change. Neighbors see tangible love.
Map relationships, listen for local priorities, and look for “persons of peace.”
Meet tangible needs (e.g., maternal health, clean water) through small, local projects.
Small groups use simple, reproducible questions to engage Scripture and obey it together.
Groups reproduce; leaders emerge; hubs form. Community committees may organize around shared goals.
Lessons on health, livelihoods, and family finance are practiced at home and modeled neighbor-to-neighbor.
Track practice adoption and multiplication; share learning to improve delivery.
Since 2017, IDMM has been embraced in diverse contexts, including restricted-access regions. It is active in 20+ languages, with materials translated into more local languages each year as partners share and adapt what works.
Moray lives in Sabad, a desert region in South-Central Asia, with her four children—one daughter and three sons—and her husband, who works as a street vendor despite being disabled, with one leg shorter than the other.
In IDMM, discovery groups serve as spaces where spiritual, physical, emotional, and social growth happen together. Each week in Nazbad district in Central Asia, group members pray and seek ways to express love within their communities, whether individually or collectively.
Fuel translation, facilitator training, and light-touch field support that helps groups multiply and serve their neighbors.
Get the discovery framework, life-skills modules, and mentoring to launch or strengthen IDMM in your context.
Find a nearby discovery group—or tell us about your community’s goals so we can connect you to local facilitators.
IDMM fuses the two: multiplying discipleship + practical community transformation in one simple pathway.
Any believer willing to facilitate, learn, obey, and serve. The tools are designed to be simple and reproducible.
Participation is locally led and open to neighbors; details vary by context with respect for local faith and culture.
Many groups see personal and household changes within months; multiplication and community impact build over years.
Translation, training, and lean field support that help facilitators multiply discovery groups and Seed Projects.
Community Health Evangelism
Health Education Program for Developing Countries
