Allen Cardines Jr | Pastor of Nanaikopono Protestant Church

Many pastors think a program or strategy will change their church. Or that preaching and teaching is adequate. Unless pastors work on changing the church culture, they will remain a black hole church—all light going in (people) and nothing going out to make an impact in the community. Allen realized this was happening at his own church.

Allen decided to make a change.

He did what Jesus modeled: start small, train and send disciple makers who do the same. Allen focused on four leaders who started making disciples who could make disciples. They started expanding and sharing their stories. This tipped the culture of the church. He quickly realized that this wasn’t easy for some people to embrace and saw that through this sound biblical teaching, God was challenging people’s minds to reveal their hearts. As painful as it was to lose people, Allen held strong on the biblical model and the results speak for themselves.

The excitement of reaching people and making a noticeable impact in the community continued to drive the church forward.

From 2017 to 2019 they went from 30 to 400+ people with over 75% of them involved in a small group and church ministry. They now have a healthy and strong core and a committed team, and have multiplied to the 4th generation. More than 10 leaders are seeing multiplication at the 5th generation and beyond.