Janae (DelMaestro) Siford Marries Alex Siford and Joins Staff Team!

Alex & Janáe Siford

We are overjoyed to announce that on May 28th, Janae DelMaestro married Alex Siford. Alex is part of our Penn State Campus team. The newlyweds will now serve together at DiscipleMakers and will transition to serving on our candidate staff team until the completion of their full-time fundraising. Janae's first official day at DiscipleMakers was June 1st.

Reflecting on the recent changes, the newlyweds said, "We praise God for this opportunity!
We’re excited to incorporate Janae’s ministry experience and giftings with a great staff team through DiscipleMakers!"

Praise God for his work in Alex & Janae’s life, and for calling them to help advance God's kingdom on the college campus!

Jordan & Amanda Eyster Reach Ministry Funding Goal

Jordan & Amanda Eyster

Jordan and Amanda Eyster have reached their ministry funding goal! God has provided the full amount needed for their ministry with DM.“We are thrilled and overwhelmed by God's grace!,” Jordan said. “He made his power and sufficiency obvious to us during this season of support raising.”

Now that they have reached this milestone, Jordan and Amanda will transition to their next ministry assignment: the Mason Dixon team at Gettysburg College. “We are grateful to be fully funded, and we're excited for the transition to campus,” Jordan said. “We are looking forward to giving ourselves to the work of the gospel at Gettysburg.”

Please thank God with us for His provision for the Eysters and pray that He will continue raising up laborers for the harvest field!

Care for One Another—DiscipleMakers’ Core Values Video Series

Part Six of our Core Values video series: David and Megan Royes on “Care for One Another.” How does caring for the individual advance the team’s efforts?

Gospel—DiscipleMakers' Core Values Video Series

Part Four of our Core Values video series: Matt Geiger explains why there’s no better reason to get up in the morning than the gospel.

Faith—DiscipleMakers' Core Values Video Series

Next in our Core Values video series: Mark Fodale on faith. “Faith conquers fear of failure by assuring us that God’s will will be accomplished in the long run.”

Caleb Olshefsky Reaches Ministry Funding Goal

Caleb Olshefsky

Caleb Olshefsky has reached his ministry funding goal! God has provided the full amount that he needs for his ministry with DM. “It is incredible to look back at my support raising and see what God has done,” Caleb said. “He truly does provide for our every need.”

Now that he has reached this milestone, Caleb will transition into his next ministry assignment: serving in the Media Department of DiscipleMakers’ headquarters. “I’m so excited to help fulfill the media needs of our ministry through the Media Department,” he said. “This way our staff can spend as much of their time as possible reaching students with the Gospel on college campuses across PA!”

Please thank God with us for His provision for Caleb and pray that He will continue raising up laborers for the harvest field!

Laborers Core Value Video

We continue our Core Values video series with a look at our Laborers core value. Tom Hallman describes why there’s no substitute for real people going out into the harvest field to make disciples.

Peter Krol Succeeds Bill Dripps as President of DiscipleMakers

This morning marked the completion of a transition which DiscipleMakers founder Bill Dripps began planning years ago: handing leadership of DiscipleMakers to a successor equipped to carry on DM’s ministry and core values. His plan was finally realized when the DM Board of Directors officially installed Peter Krol as DM’s president at their meeting today. (Bill will continue to serve with DM as a missionary and as President Emeritus.)

“DiscipleMakers has become greater and bigger and more used of God and more exciting with each year that goes by,” Bill said. “As I look to the future, I am excited about what God is doing. My hope and my confidence is that DM will go on to many greater and better and more effective things for the Lord in the future than He's ever done through us in the past.”

When asked how he felt about this milestone, Peter replied, “We’ve got a terrific, growing staff team. We have more clarity than ever before on our mission and goals. And we’ve got a great God who has gifted us with a strong group of leaders. I’m so thankful to work with these leadership teams as we expand to new campuses and continue making disciples of Jesus Christ.”

Please pray for DiscipleMakers as we pursue these goals in faith that God will continue working in students’ hearts!

Scriptures Core Value Video

Today we begin a weekly series of videos in which DM missionaries describe our Core Values. We begin with Peter Krol's description of how the Scriptures form the basis of all we do as a ministry.

Bill Dripps: Looking Ahead

Last June, we announced our plans for Peter Krol to succeed Bill Dripps as president of DiscipleMakers. In anticipation of this transition, which will take place at DM's Board of Directors meeting on January 23, Bill shared some reflections affirming the health of the ministry and our continuing commitment to our Core Values.