Who this works for
Every ministry deserves a discipleship track, not just a group chat.
Doersteps is not a church tool that a campus ministry borrows, or the other way round. It is a discipleship engine that takes the shape of your ministry. Every ministry has the same need underneath: a track that grows people through doing, with somebody walking alongside them. Only the words and the steps change.
If you lead one of these ministries, this is what a track could look like for your people. If you are one of those people, it is what growing could look like for you. And every screen can say what your people already say: your own word for a step, a group or a leader replaces ours everywhere it appears.
Church ministries
Every team in a church is a place where people are formed, not only a rota to fill. Here is what a discipleship track could look like for each one, whether you lead the team or serve on it.
Worship team
Musicians, singers and the people at the desk. A track can form the heart behind the craft: a new vocalist leads one song in rehearsal, with the worship leader beside them, before leading on a Sunday.
Hospitality and greeters
The first face a guest sees. A step might be learning one newcomer's name and introducing them to somebody else before they leave.
Parking
Not just a schedule. The people standing in the rain are being formed too: a first shift beside somebody who has done it for years, and one day training the next volunteer themselves.
Security and safety
Calm, trained people who care for everyone in the building. Steps can include a walk-through with a team lead before somebody takes a post on their own.
Kids
For the volunteers who serve children: formed for the room, and held to the safeguards that belong around it. A church chooses who needs a current background check before they lead or are paired with anyone, and a check never stops anybody from learning.
Youth
Students growing into leaders, with adults walking alongside them. A student can help lead part of a gathering, then lead one, confirmed by a person at each step.
Prayer team
Praying with people, not only for them. A new member might pray with somebody after a service alongside an experienced member, and then on their own.
Serving and volunteers
Every team can be a place of growth. A position can ask for a course before somebody takes it on, and the rota asks people rather than assigning them.
Groups and small groups
Each group with its own roster, calendar and attendance, and the person leading it on a track of their own, so group leaders are formed and not only scheduled.
First-time guests and new members
From a first visit to belonging, and on to leading. Whatever your church calls the steps on that road, each one can end in something done and confirmed by a person, rather than a class sat through.
Missions and outreach
Going is learned by going. Steps can be a first conversation, a first trip and a first time leading others on one, each confirmed by a person.
Campus ministry
Chi Alpha and other collegiate ministries. Doersteps is in use at Chi Alpha at Texas State today.
Leadership training (LTC)
The track that forms student leaders, lesson by lesson, with steps done in the world and confirmed by a leader who knows the student's name.
PODs and small groups
Groups with a roster, a calendar and attendance, and the student leading one practicing it with somebody walking alongside them.
The new-student journey
From the first week on campus to a place in a group, with a person following up rather than a form.
Student-leader development
Practice before the title: a student helps lead, then leads, then walks with the next student, confirmed by a person at each step.
Specialized ministries
The steps and the words are different in every one of these. The need underneath is the same, and a version of this works for you.
Recovery and addiction
Recovery is practiced a day at a time, with somebody alongside. A track can hold the steps your program already walks people through, each one confirmed by a person who knows them.
Prison and jail ministry
For the volunteers who go in: formed for the work, and practicing alongside somebody experienced before they lead on their own.
Motorcycle ministry
Riders reaching riders. A track can form the people who show up at rallies and on the road, with steps that happen out there rather than in a classroom.
Youth at risk
Young people who need an adult who keeps showing up. The adults are formed to walk with them, and a ministry chooses who needs a current background check before being paired with a young person.
Military and chaplaincy
Chaplains and the people who serve beside them, where the schedule is rarely your own. A track goes at each person's pace unless the ministry chooses to pace it, and no date ever counts as a step done.
Marketplace and workplace
Faith practiced where people spend most of their week. The steps happen at work, and are talked over with somebody who walks with them.
Missions organizations
Preparing people before they go and walking with them while they are there, each step something done and confirmed by a person.
Para-church ministries and networks
Each ministry keeps its own people's records. What travels up to a network is the counts a ministry chooses to publish, never a person's record.