Our discipleship Programs
An eight-week summer program for teenage students and college-age adults seeking to grow in their relationship with God. The Summer Discipleship Program seeks to grow a believer’s relationship with God as they obey the lifelong call to discipleship.
A year-long schooling and leadership program for high school graduates and college-age adults seeking to receive collegiate-level education on the foundations of the Christian faith. THE WAY School seeks to equip Christians to be disciple-makers and spiritual leaders within their churches and surrounding communities.
Derek Ballard
Discipleship Coordinator
Derek is passionate about transformational discipleship. To Derek, this means that becoming a disciple of Christ entails that we follow Him, and are gradually transformed in a greater likeness to Christ. Through this process of transformation, by the power of the Holy Spirit, in which we follow Jesus as our Lord and Savior, is THE WAY to experience life as God intended it. Derek seeks to train up disciples into godly young men and women who are equipped and ready to serve the Lord in whatever service God may call them to, bearing the image of Christ wherever they go, and making more disciples along the way. It is through this process of transformational discipleship that we build up the kingdom of God for His glory and for the joy of His people! Currently, Derek is pursuing his Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he is excited to see where God will lead in the coming years, and to see God work in and through the lives of His disciples!
Phone: 585-554-3400
Email: dballard@letcc.org