{"id":159487,"date":"2026-01-09T16:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleship.org\/?p=159487"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:39:29","slug":"announcing-robby-gallaty-and-ralph-moores-addition-to-the-national-disciple-making-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleship.org\/blog\/announcing-robby-gallaty-and-ralph-moores-addition-to-the-national-disciple-making-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Robby Gallaty and Ralph Moore’s Addition to the National Disciple Making Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are pleased to announce two special contributors to the <\/strong>2026 National Disciple Making Forum<\/strong><\/a>. Both of these men have made a significant national impact for the cause of Jesus-style disciple making<\/strong>, and we are honored to welcome them to the Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robby Gallaty<\/strong> is one of North America\u2019s leading disciple making advocates and practitioners. He is the founder of Replicate Ministries<\/strong>, the author of numerous disciple making books, and has served as the senior pastor of Long Hollow Church, a highly impactful, disciple making mega-church<\/strong> in Hendersonville, Tennessee, since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robby\u2019s story is powerful. Before entering ministry, he struggled with severe addiction to heroin and cocaine, resulting in devastating personal losses. During that season, he witnessed the deaths of eight friends from drug-related causes, while six others were arrested. After two rounds of rehabilitation, Robby experienced a radical conversion to Christianity on November 12, 2002<\/strong>, through the gospel message shared by a college friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was personally discipled by David Platt<\/strong> for two years, and through that process developed a deep passion for disciple making. That journey ultimately led him to launch Replicate Ministries, which now equips believers around the world to make disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robby Gallaty will be a main-stage speaker on the first day of the Forum<\/strong>, and his team from Replicate will also be present to share the many disciple making resources they have developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are also honored to welcome Ralph Moore<\/strong>, who has spent over fifty years as a master maker of disciple makers<\/strong>. His ministry emerged from the Jesus Movement in Southern California in the early 1970s, but his greatest impact came in Hawaii, where God used his disciple making movement to reach 1% of the Hawaiian population<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more significantly, Ralph established a reproducible model of disciple making churches. When the Exponential Church Planting team tracked the churches that emerged from Moore\u2019s original church plants, they were astonished: 2,639 churches<\/strong> have been planted from churches he planted. There is no other movement like it in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pattern Moore established has repeated itself again and again: disciple making disciples in personal, life-on-life relationships<\/strong>\u2014places where church events cannot reach\u2014and doing so in a way that is simple enough for ordinary people to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The genius of the model is not complexity; it is clarity. In Moore\u2019s \u201cdisciple making model,\u201d the Word of God is not merely heard\u2014it is obeyed, guided by four simple questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n