MTC Nashville · A Missions Training & Disciple-Making Residency
Equipping disciplesfor #NoPlaceLeft
A 32-week missionary training residency for bi-vocational laborers — discipleship, church planting, and disciple-making practice that multiplies disciples, healthy churches, and catalytic leaders among the unreached.
In Partnership With
Three ministries.One movement.
MTC Nashville is not a standalone effort. It is the shared work of three partner ministries — each holding up a load-bearing wall of every residency.
No Place Left
A coalition of practitioners pursuing the core missionary task — multiplying disciples, churches, and leaders until there is no place left without the Gospel. The residency is built on the 5 Parts / 4 Fields strategy No Place Left has refined across the nations.
noplaceleft.nete3 Partners
A global mission agency equipping the church to evangelize the unreached and plant churches where Christ is not named. e3 Partners supports the residency's deployment pathway and an optional internship for those exploring full-time service among the unreached.
e3partners.orgSent Ones
A network of sent ones providing coaching, pastoral care, and loving accountability for laborers in the harvest. Sent Ones walks with residents as they discern calling, grow in character, and step into long-term obedience among the unreached.
sentones.comOur Goal
The Missionary Training Residency
To equip disciples of Jesus to pursue the core missionary task through missions training and disciple-making — multiplying faithful disciples, healthy churches, and catalytic leaders who engage unreached population segments and people groups locally and globally — until there is #NoPlaceLeft.
As a missionary training center, the residency cultivates Christ-like character, clarifies calling and spiritual gifts, grows confidence and competency in ministry strategy and skills, and provides a community of practice for encouragement, loving accountability, and partnership. Residents are encouraged to start a multiplying group, church, or another residency with others.
Character
Cultivate Christ-like character formed in the daily rhythms of abiding, obedience, and accountability.
Calling
Clarify your calling and spiritual gifts as you discern where God is sending you locally and globally.
Confidence & Competency
Grow in confidence and competency in core movement strategy and disciple-making skills.
Community of Practice
Walk with a community of laborers for encouragement, loving accountability, and partnership in the harvest.
Designed for
Bi-vocational laborers
This residency is designed for anyone — including those with full-time jobs — and doesn't cost anything except your life. It has become a standard of training for many seeking full-time service among the unreached locally and globally. Spouses are not only welcome — couples are encouraged to participate together, and children are welcome at all gatherings.
The Field
Why Nashville?
When most people hear the word missionary, they picture a faraway country, a plane ticket, and years of language school. But something remarkable is happening in cities like Nashville. The nations are no longer only out there — they are here.
God has gathered the nations in Nashville, and He did it before most of us were paying attention. You are not waiting to be sent to the nations. The nations are already here — and so are you.
MTC Nashville · South Nashville
A Mission Field Hidden in Plain Sight
Approximately 105,000 immigrants now call Nashville and Davidson County home — roughly 15% of the local population. These are our neighbors, the workers at businesses we frequent, the parents of the children our kids play with at the park, the people in line at the grocery store.
105,000
Immigrants in Nashville & Davidson County
15%
Of the local population
132
Languages spoken in Metro Nashville schools
15,000–20,000
Kurdish residents — the largest US population
They come from every corner of the earth. Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the United States — so concentrated in South Nashville that the area has been named Little Kurdistan. There are an estimated 60,000 Muslims in Middle Tennessee alone, representing dozens of ethnicities and languages.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19–20
Mission Is Not a Program — It's a Life
The Great Commission isn't a project you schedule. It's a posture you carry. Every conversation is an opportunity. Every shared meal is a door. Every act of hospitality is a witness.
You don't need a title. You need availability. You don't need a platform. You need obedience.
A Practical Word
- Start a conversation. Ask where they're from.
- Invite someone for a meal. Open your table.
- Pray for one neighborhood where the nations have gathered.
- Learn a culture different from your own — as an act of love.
The Format
What the residency looks like
Strategy: 5 Parts / 4 Fields. Designed for laborers who want to live on mission right where they are.
32 Weeks · Two Semesters
Weekly 2–3 hour gatherings across two 16-week semesters. Commit to at least one semester at a time — the first 16 weeks stand on their own.
Costs nothing but your life
Designed for bi-vocational laborers. There is no tuition — just a wholehearted commitment to obey Jesus together.
Couples & Kids Welcome
Spouses are encouraged to participate together. Children are welcome at all gatherings.
Prerequisites
Applicants should already be active in the harvest — regularly sharing the Gospel, facilitating 3/3rds gatherings, and familiar with the 4 Fields.
Your Rhythm
Weekly schedule · ~7 hrs/week
A rhythm of gathering, harvest, training, accountability, and abiding — sustainable for bi-vocational laborers and their families.
Residency Gathering
Encourage and equip one another in Christ-like character, calling, and core movement skills.
Harvest
Entry, share the gospel, and disciple a group or church in the harvest.
Train
Train other Christians to do the same — multiplication is the goal.
Accountability
Loving accountability with a coach or peer to keep growing in obedience and fruitfulness.
Personal Abiding
Daily time abiding in Christ — the foundation everything else flows from.
Residents are expected to train others and engage the lost in the harvest weekly. The residency has become a standard of training for many seeking full-time service among the unreached locally and globally.
Ready to labor?
Ready to labor for #NoPlaceLeft?
Apply to the Missionary Training Center Nashville. Commit one 16-week semester at a time and join a community of bi-vocational laborers trained in disciple-making and multiplying disciples in the harvest.