The Cost of Disciple Drift
Your church already believes in discipleship — your budget proves it. This report names what that investment is losing to Drift, and includes a live calculator built from nationally representative data.
East Tampa · Ybor City · Designed for the Black Church
Is your pastor's message too important to end on Sunday?
Multiply is a platform built to end Disciple Drift. We are selecting Tampa Bay's most impactful Black pastors for Between Sundays — a series that celebrates their calling, honoring their story in a way their congregation has never heard it, and gifting the church a free week-long discipleship experience built from their own sermon. We just need an introduction.
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Introduce Us
Use the buttons on each card to text or email an introduction to your pastor or church leadership — in one tap.
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We Build the Experience
As a completely free gift, we take your pastor's chosen sermon and build a week-long discipleship experience — devotional, small group guide, and social content.
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We Honor Their Story
We sit down with your pastor to celebrate their calling — honoring their story in a way their congregation has never heard it.
Leslie B. James
Founder · Multiply Mission · Pastor · Church Planter
Pastor, church planter, and infrastructure builder based in Orlando. Between Sundays is his attempt to honor the pastors who already believe the sermon shouldn't end on Sunday.
The Tampa Bay Wish List
We have researched the ministries making the deepest impact across Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. These are the leaders we want to honor.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
Pastor Barnum's unique fusion of technology and pastoral restoration gives New Salem a distinct edge. We want to honor his leadership and explore how his congregation extends the sermon's reach past Sunday — scaling discipleship without scaling overhead.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
Known as "The U," First Union carries a deeply structured, systems-driven approach to ministry. We want to honor Pastor Garmon's mandate to "teach and keep" God's people — and explore how that conviction lives in the spaces between Sundays.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
Operating under the banner of "Real Church for Real People," Bishop Sykes brings rare academic and clinical depth to pastoral leadership. We want to feature how his vision of turning a Sunday crowd into a life-sharing family shapes the week that follows the Word.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
Pastor Troupe's multi-generational legacy and Spirit-led preaching have built a stable, committed congregation. We want to honor that foundation — and explore how his Evangelism Ministry can carry the Sunday message deeper into the week.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
As Mount Olive executes its intentional "Rebirth" season under Mount Olive Productions, the momentum is real. We want to honor Pastor Butler's vision of turning listeners into doers — and show how the sermon can keep working long after the benediction.
Why Tampa Bay needs this voice:
A legacy institution rooted in historic Ybor City, Allen Temple carries deep theological training through its Leadership Institute. We want to celebrate Rev. Dr. Bentsi-Addison's leadership and explore how that master-level formation can reach the wider community between Sundays.
Don't see your church on the list?
We are always looking for leaders who are passionate about spiritual formation beyond Sunday.
Each Between Sundays episode contributes to the Multiply Research Lab's ongoing documentation of disciple drift patterns in the Black church — building the first city-by-city field record of what pastors are seeing and what God is showing them.
View the Lab →From the Research Lab
All 20 articles →The gap between Sunday and Monday isn't a new problem — it's a documented one. These two articles from the Multiply Research Lab explain what Disciple Drift costs churches and what it takes to close the gap.
Decision-Maker Research
Sermon Extension
The Second Life of a Sermon
Without reinforcement, humans forget 90% of what they hear within a week. Discover how the Weekly Learn step beats the forgetting curve — and why the sermon your pastor preached Sunday is still preaching if you give it somewhere to go.
Between Sundays • Tampa Bay
Nominate a Pastor
Whether you are a church member who wants to honor your pastor, or a pastor recommending a colleague — we want to hear from you.