Welcome to
The More Disciples Podcast

Doug Lucas founded Team Expansion in 1978 and, over 40 years later, still serves as the organization’s President. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Bible, a Master’s degree in Missions, an MBA, and a Doctorate in Business Administration. The organization makes its home on a 61-acre Prayer, Retreat, and Learning Center in Louisville, Kentucky and currently has over 300 full-time workers in 50 countries who are praying daily that God helps them make and multiply disciples among the unreached for His glory. Learn more about Team Expansion at www.TeamExpansion.org . Doug has been married to Penny since 1979. They have two grown children and one granddaughter. Doug’s book, More Disciples, is designed to help believers discover how they and their believing communities can be more effective at multiplying disciples and churches.

Lee Wood is the Founder and initial catalyst of 1Body Church, as well as a missionary and Apostolic leader with a world vision to launch disciple-multiplying movements until the whole world knows Jesus. He leads and mentors key leaders in launching small house churches to spread the Gospel, starting in the smallest expression in his home in Tampa and eventually across the whole world. This aligns with his philosophy of "dream big, work small". Lee is married to Stacy, is the father of five and grandfather of five.

In 1999, John Heerema was a successful business owner. John and his wife Kathy enjoyed a leisurely lifestyle in Naples, Florida.

Sitting on the floor one evening with their young daughter and with a son on the way, John and Kathy reflected on how they had built the “perfect life.” Shortly thereafter, John was blindsided by a question that he read in a book. The question that pierced John’s heart was this:

Are you living a little life in your own little world,
or are you willing to live a BIGLIFE,
a life with a big impact for the Kingdom of God?

John began to struggle with realization that his perfect little life was perfectly shallow.
After wrestling with God, John walked away from his business to join God where He was already working. A ministry called Biglife was started. Biglife now serves in over 130 countries, reaching millions of people with the Gospel message in some of the darkest strongholds on earth. Through life-on-life discipleship, living a life with a big Kingdom impact is the core of everything we do and the heartbeat of who we are.

Dr. Dori Yuen is the Executive Director of Channel Network. She is currently serving as a City Missionary in North America, reaching out to the Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also ministers to the marginalized and the vulnerable population. She was the Church Planter of Channel Church in Berkeley, California. Dori is currently soliciting other partners with similar passion for God to plant more churches and train disciple makers in their own communities, both locally and internationally. She is also a strong advocate for overseas missions and have been leading teams to India, Nepal, Lebanon, Mexico, Uganda, Sierra Leone, various places in South America, and many other places worldwide.

Doctor of Ministry, 2022
Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention

Master of Divinity with a concentration in Church Planting, 2017
Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention