A non-profit ministry  ·  Franklin, Tennessee

Raising a generation that follows Jesus.

The Disciple Project exists to help the next generation learn how to follow Jesus in every area of their life — by forming their identity in Christ and orienting their lives around His practices.

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Our mission

What we're here to do

The Disciple Project exists to help the next generation learn how to follow Jesus in every area of their life, by forming their identity in Christ and orienting their lives around His practices.

Our vision

Where we're going

We envision a generation that moves beyond simply knowing about Jesus to truly following Him. We desire young people so secure in their identity as sons and daughters that they live sent, multiplying disciples until one million lives are being shaped by Jesus.

When we gather

Two rhythms a week

Come to either one. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to bring — show up and you're in.

Tuesday nights · 7:00 PM

Teaching & community

A home in Franklin, Tennessee

This is the heart of it. We open a home every Tuesday night for teaching, worshipful conversation, food, and the kind of community that makes following Jesus something you do with people instead of alone. We work through a year-long curriculum on what it actually means to be a disciple — and how to follow Jesus in an ordinary Tuesday kind of life.

Wednesday mornings · 5:45–6:45 AM

Run club & prayer

Starbucks, downtown Franklin

We run together, and we pray together. An hour before the day starts, in the dark, in the cold, with people who are becoming your closest friends. It's simple and it's formative — and it's a surprisingly good place to meet God and to meet the person who'll be walking with you all year.

The year-long curriculum

Learning the practices of Jesus

Our curriculum takes a year, because formation takes a year. Much of it lives in the spiritual practices — the ordinary, repeatable things Jesus Himself did. We don't teach them as a system to perform. We practice them together until they become the shape of a life.

We want to walk alongside high schoolers, college students, and young adults and pour into their lives. We want them equipped for everything this world and our enemy will throw at them, and rooted in a community they can keep following Jesus with long after they leave our living room.

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The vision

1,000,000

Lives being shaped by Jesus. That's the number we're praying toward — not because we'll gather a million people in a living room, but because disciples make disciples. Every young person who learns to follow Him here goes and shows someone else how.

Where we are

A home and a running trail

Two gatherings a week in Franklin, and a year-long curriculum walking students into a real, daily life with Jesus.

What's next

Leaders raised up

Students who've walked the year through learning to teach it themselves, with us behind them the whole way.

Where it's going

Chapters in the schools

Disciple Project chapters started by students in schools across Williamson County, teaching the curriculum to their own classmates.

Testimonies

In their own words

What's happening in the lives of the students and young adults who gather with us.

"God has changed my life using Braxton and The Disciple Project."

Cohen Stammen

My faith before that class was simply shallow. High school was an identity process for me, and I tried to fulfill that through worldly things that were always bound to fail.

Since going through the curriculum, and learning what it's like to truly be a follower of Jesus and what a Spirit-led life looks like, it's something that has changed me and my heart. I've also come to realize that true discipleship isn't talked about enough.

God has changed my life using Braxton and The Disciple Project, and I'm truly blessed. If this has come across your path, consider it a blessing! God says it's a narrow road and it is not easy, but He does say He's with us and provides us with community like this to make it a whole lot easier.

"I was so mad I got put into this — and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me."

Louis Pirtle
Now studying for full-time ministry

Before going into this, my faith was completely dead. I was battling addictions and depression, and honestly I was so mad I got put into this — and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

One specific moment I remember is asking Braxton, "How are you so happy all the time?" and he answered, "I have the joy of the Lord." I replied saying, "Can you teach me how to have that and be happy like you?"

This was the turning point in my life, because for the next month I blew Braxton's phone up and told him everything I have ever done or was dealing with, and he taught me how to fully trust in God and get the joy of the Lord pulling me out of such a dark place.

I would tell this testimony to anyone, because I can relate to so many struggling people and share how God redeemed me — and how this, and finding a mentor, turned my life around completely. Now I'm going into full-time ministry to study and be a pastor one day, to help anyone who was struggling the same way I was.

"Now, my life looks completely different in every way."

Chloe Dubois

I stand in complete awe of the Lord when I think of the ways He's changed me and my faith through Coach Bonds' discipleship. My faith before was timid. I had little knowledge about God's character, had no clue what spiritual disciplines were, and although outwardly a Christian, still felt the enemy's grip on my spirit and voice.

Now, my life looks completely different in every way. I've since gotten baptized. I started taking my spiritual disciplines seriously. I used to never read my Bible, and now you'd think I had my Bible for 10 years with all of the highlighting and annotating in it — which I don't say with pride, but with humility at how God has changed me. I now have a confident knowledge of who God is and do my best to boldly profess Jesus' Name and love to those around me. All that to say, everything changed and I am forever thankful!

One specific lesson that stuck with me through Coach Bonds' discipleship was the study of spiritual disciplines. I had never considered these to be things you necessarily need to do besides prayer and reading Scripture. Now I often practice silence and solitude, service, and fasting as three disciplines that are embedded in my walk with Jesus, as well as a strengthened prayer life and love of Scripture. I have since felt a newfound closeness to God and clarity of His voice when He speaks to me.

Evangelizing and praying over others was another thing that really stuck with me, as it taught me that reaching outside of my comfort zone is Biblical, and something that should be a daily habit. I do this because I once was a "Christian" who never really knew Scripture or Christ, and had never heard His voice as clear as I do today. Thankful for Coach Bonds and his leadership, and for letting the Lord work through him!

Support the work

What your giving makes possible

The Disciple Project runs on the generosity of people who want to see this generation follow Jesus. Every gift goes straight into the room where it happens.

  • A room worth walking into

    Food, drinks, a sound system, screens, games — and Bibles, journals, and pens in the hands of every person who shows up.

  • Nights they'll remember

    Worship nights, testimony nights, speaker nights, game nights, and baptism nights — the gatherings that mark a year.

  • More time on the ministry

    Support that frees our leadership to give The Disciple Project the attention it needs, so more students get walked with personally.

  • The next chapter

    Curriculum, training, and materials to raise up student leaders and launch chapters in schools across Williamson County.

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