Daniel Vandock | Pastor of Lake Life Church

During his days as a lead pastor, Daniel was concerned that his church struggled to stay on mission. Daniel invested a great deal of energy to lead the church to become more Kingdom and outreach focused rather than inwardly focused. He became increasingly frustrated that the church seemed to have little interest or desire to live on mission or to make a Kingdom impact. They seemed to be mostly focused on maintenance and self-preservation.

That prompted Daniel to take a bold leap.

Three years ago, Daniel left that church to pursue planting a multiplying community of disciples that would become a vibrant transformational agent in his Michigan community. Daniel’s first step was finding a group of people who were genuinely disciple-able. When Daniel made the shift to focus on disciple making as his primary focus, he found a number of people who were open and responsive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Those people soon became this core and Daniel developed those individuals for nearly a year. In 2016 Daniel began to invite a group of people to meet together to learn how to multiply disciples and launch a disciple making community in his area. In 2017 they launched Lake Life Church in Alanson, Michigan. Since that time Daniel has identified several other strong leaders and is planning on launching disciple making movements in the towns and villages around him.